We Made It To Millstadt...

The former Home Sweet Home...

It's been a fairly intense day. We woke up at 6 a.m. to finish cleaning and packing with enough time to drop off various items at various places before going to church. The combination of Father's Day and leaving Champaign turned out to be a little more difficult than I anticipated. We both had moments that hit us a little harder than we expected them to. After church and lunch with some friends, we went back to pick up Lacy and George (the dog and cat respectively) and hit the road. George only meowed for the first half h

our or 45 minutes or so. Lacy, on the other hand, doesn't know how to relax in the car unless she's had all her energy run out of her...but generally just sits backwards and watches out the back window of the car. I didn't get to do much of anything since we ran out of room and I had to hold the cooler on my lap for today's trip. We dropped some stuff off for Adam's mom, though, so hopefully that won't be the case tomorrow.

We took a pit stop at a gas station and let Lacy and George out (George was on a harness and leash. He seems to think he's only capable of army crawling when he has his harness on. It's my goal to get him comfortable with it so that he'll go for walks with me so I can be the crazy new neighbor who walks her cat. I'll let you know how that goes.).

We heard tornado warnings broadcast on the radio a couple times on the way down...not too far from where we were at the time, actually. We're pretty sure that the really dark clouds looming in the rearview mirrors were part of the storms that were being broadcast. Adam thought it would be really cool if we saw the tornado and could put the picture up on the "blog-o-sphere." We got pretty lucky and missed the majority of all the bad weather...just some drizzles and wind.

We made it to Millstadt around 6. Besides the shampoo and conditioner that exploded when they fell on Lacy and she stepped on them, everything made it in one piece. We had dinner with the fam, looked at wedding pictures, watched the slideshow...and then Emma and Adam's mom (and as many of the other people that Adam's mom could convince to join in) entertained us by entertaining themselves taking pictures of themselves on my computer.

We're leaving tomorrow morning around 7:30 (in theory). Adam and I are switching off driving every 2 hours and hoping to make it to Amarillo, Texas by tomorrow night. This is gonna be interesting...yawn. And to prove my dedication to keeping this current...I now have collected countless misquito bites from the quest to find wireless to upload the pictures. TTFN.