Up North
After 3,250 miles and 55 hours on the road, we returned from our annual vacation to Minnesota and Wisconsin last week. Upon arriving home we weren't even out of the truck for 3 hours before it was back to a soccer practice for Cael that evening, maybe that's why it has taken me a while to get to this post. We started our trip with a 14 hour drive to Milwaukee, WI for a friend's 40th birthday party and then over to Madison, WI to see Anne's family. Thankfully today's kids have tablets, DVD players, and a whole host of other gadgets to keep them entertained on long hauls. Hazel it seems was born with an acute sense of smell which did not lend well to Meg our black lab sitting by her the whole trip. Anne eventually gave her a bottle of orange hand sanitizer to mask the smell of the dog. Cael and Hazel have been going on long road trips since they were babies so they take the long miles pretty well. By the time we got to Milwaukee we all wanted to get out of the