Sunday, December 14, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Day 1 complete!
We all successfully made it from DC to Kalamazoo Michigan. We started at about 10:15, took about an hour to get out of the district and from there it was smooth sailing! We got here at about 9 and spent some nice quality time teaching Marley how not to be afraid of rocking chairs, dark rooms and her own food.
Highlights of the trip today:
- stopping at an awesome Ohio rest area with a panera
- listening to a book on cd that is way too complicated to listen to
- Erika and me still being friends
- joking about how Erika's brother and sister and law have the same names as my mom and dad - jennie and David (just wait till we find out that both our moms do the same type of job!)
- me changing the wind shield wipers
- and of course getting to spend time with jennie, David, Kyle, gabriella and the cats
Highlights of the trip today:
- stopping at an awesome Ohio rest area with a panera
- listening to a book on cd that is way too complicated to listen to
- Erika and me still being friends
- joking about how Erika's brother and sister and law have the same names as my mom and dad - jennie and David (just wait till we find out that both our moms do the same type of job!)
- me changing the wind shield wipers
- and of course getting to spend time with jennie, David, Kyle, gabriella and the cats
Friday, December 12, 2008
Night before the trip!
We are preparing to leave tonight. Despite promises to ourselves that we would be packing all week and be all prepared tonight, somehow the procrastinators in both of us got the best of us (who would have thought?). We shall persevere though, and we will be on our way in the morning.
Tasks tonight include:
- Erika packing
- Sam packing
- Cleaning out the trunk of the car
- Giving Marley a bath
- Sleeping
- Praying for warm weather in Michigan/Chicago
- Sam thinking of good things to bring from DC to offer to Governor Blagojevich in hopes of the Senate seat
Marley has absolutely no idea what she is in for in the next two weeks. Meeting multiple dogs and cats, visiting warm and cold climates, and making friends with the back seat.
Destination tomorrow: Kalamazoo, MI, about 600 miles from DC!
Tasks tonight include:
- Erika packing
- Sam packing
- Cleaning out the trunk of the car
- Giving Marley a bath
- Sleeping
- Praying for warm weather in Michigan/Chicago
- Sam thinking of good things to bring from DC to offer to Governor Blagojevich in hopes of the Senate seat
Marley has absolutely no idea what she is in for in the next two weeks. Meeting multiple dogs and cats, visiting warm and cold climates, and making friends with the back seat.
Destination tomorrow: Kalamazoo, MI, about 600 miles from DC!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
The trip
Erika, Marley and I will be taking a LONG drive from DC to Kalamazoo Michigan to Evanston, Illinois to Nashville, Tennessee to Tampa, Florida and then back to DC with different stops along the way.
It is a 2 week trip that will start on Saturday, December 13 and end Sunday December 28.
Since Erika loves to take pictures, and I have my cool new Flip video camera, we'll try and post here often to update everyone and have a check-in site in case we break down in the middle of who-knows-where :)
Also, since I'm apparently obsessed with social networking, we can twitter on here too, so we'll see how that works.
It is a 2 week trip that will start on Saturday, December 13 and end Sunday December 28.
Since Erika loves to take pictures, and I have my cool new Flip video camera, we'll try and post here often to update everyone and have a check-in site in case we break down in the middle of who-knows-where :)
Also, since I'm apparently obsessed with social networking, we can twitter on here too, so we'll see how that works.
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