Friday, after Michael got off work, we drove to Topeka to stay the night with Glenn and Linda. This took a good 2 hours off of the drive we did yesterday. It wad nice to see them again, but it was a very quick trip. All in all, I would say we were there for only 12 hours, 7pm Friday night to 7am Saturday morning. But we got a good night's sleep and were ready to hit the road yesterday for our big, long driving day of our trip.
Saturday morning my alarm went off at 6am. I woke up st 4 and watched the lightning from the storm, but Michael told me to go back to sleep and that I couldn't get up yet. ð We got up and around and left Glenn and Linda's house by 7am.
Google maps said our drive would take 10 hours, 665 miles. We had 3 stops planned, in Columbia, just passed St. Louis, and in Nashville. I intended to drive the first half of the day or more, so Michael could slowly wake up, but with the rain still coming down, even though it wasn't very hard, I was having flashbacks to our vacation last summer when we were driving through a giant red cell in the middle of the night, and I didn't want to drive through the rain, so Michael drove through our first two stops.
I took over in St. Louis, when we pulled off to drive through Mc Donald's to get the kids some lunch, and drove the rest of the way through Nashville. However, big city driving makes me very nervous, and as soon as we stopped for gas in Nashville I was done and had Michael take over again. Like I said, Google Maps said our trip would take 10 hours, the longest single day of driving we've done yet. With a little time added four bathroom breaks at our various stops, we ended up making it to Murfreesboro in 11 hours, by 6pm. It was a long day, but we made it! ❤
We got to Chuck and Shanna's house and moved in with all of our stuff. The kids watched a movie and had some popcorn and snacks, the adults had a drink and talked send relaxed. We're planning to do a whole lot of nothing today but relaxing and maybe trying a few great local restaurants. ð Michael's cousin, Sam, Shanna's son, and his girlfriend Alyssa, and their son, Rowan, are arriving today, mid-day. There'll go with us to Kentucky, to the dairy farm, tomorrow and to the caves with us on Tuesday. So it will be nice to see them and meet Alyssa and Rowan for the first time. I think it's probably been 5 years since we've seen Sam. Lots of family time and relaxing planned for today. ð❤
Well, since I've been up for 40 minutes now, I might as well get up and go get some coffee and start my day. ð Have a wonderful day, everyone, and I'll try to be back on later to update you on our daily activities. ❤ Love you!
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