Wed. Jan. 22-Sat. Jan. 25: Planning
on going only to Fort Wayne our first day opened up a whole new world for
getting ready this year. I had two appointments in the morning and Marv began
packing the truck. We had opened the camper and packed it Monday and Tuesday,
while it was frigid but luckily not snowing. Temperatures all week were slated
to be in the single digits to below zero range. We finished up and got on the road about
1:30 for an uneventful drive to Ken and Jen’s house. While we got things out of
the truck (for three nights in a row we were going to have to remove all the
canned goods and the cooler so they wouldn’t freeze) Jen finished getting ready
for work for the evening. We hung out with Ken and Josh and Marv ran to Sam’s
Club to pick up our free roasted chicken and apple pie for dinner. The evening
went well and we enjoyed a late dinner when Jen returned, visited, and went to
bed.
The drive the next morning to Carmel was pretty terrible with stretches of
icy surface where vehicles were in the ditch or turned 180° in the road. When
traffic slowed to a crawl and stretched in the distance with bumper to bumper
semis, we got off the freeway and drove west a few miles and stopped to share a
Subway $5 footlong before we continued west to US37 and took it south all the
way to 116th Street and on to Sarah and Craig’s. We enjoyed time
with Sarah, Craig and Analyn until the boys came home. Then now three year old Analyn
opened her birthday presents and we took everyone out to Bub’s Burgers for her
birthday dinner. In the morning the boys had a two hour delay because of the
below zero windchills so we played with them for a while and then packed up and
headed south while they got ready for school. The road was clear and dry, the
sun was shining, and it was -4° as we left town. Traffic wasn’t a problem all
day and the temperatures rose into the twenties. We spent the night at a Days
Inn in Clarksville, GA.
Analyn opening our present
One of our dress-up dresses
Analyn and Mama
Playing the VERY popular "pop-it" Princess Game
Grandma Cookie & Analyn playing with Play-Do
Boppa & Analyn playing with Play-Do
It wasn’t so much the Hogs coughing to life about 7:00
the next morning, nor even that they were left roaring to warm up for over half
an hour. What bothered me was the group of people shouting to be heard over the
noise as they apparently enjoyed their morning coffee before finally riding
away. Before getting back on I75 we tried to wash the camper and truck at a
do-it-yourself carwash but it turned out (after we put in a five dollar bill) to
be completely frozen. Oh well… It was about 1:00 when we got to Rachel and
Michael’s in Atlanta and no one was home. So we parked in front of their house
and walked down the hill to a Starbucks until Rachel called to let us know they
were home. It was fun to visit and play with Mikey for a while and then they
took us to a South African restaurant called Yebo’s for a really delicious and
unusual meal. We were back on the road by 6:00 or so and listened to Spartan Radio coverage of the MSU/Michigan basketball, which MSU sadly lost in
the last few minutes of a close and exciting game. By the time it ended we were
close to Florida in Valdosta, GA so we got a room at a Super 8 for our last
night before camping. The temperature at 11:00 was 52° so we felt like we had
finally found some warm weather.
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| Mikey jumping with Mommy Rachel |
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| Dinner at Yebo's Rachel, Mikey, Peggy, Marv & Michael |
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