That's how far we've come! It's been a very long couple of days. I'm blogging in bed at my in-laws in STL. :) It was nice to sleep in a bit!
We left Boston around noonish on Friday. We picked up our copper table (which is just as pretty as I remember it!). Then headed to spend the night with Jeff's Grandma Carm. We got there pretty late, but it was really nice to see her and her new place.
Summit & Mitzie meowed for the first 15 minutes or so of the drive, then calmed down. We have an adapter for the cigarette lighter in the truck that converts to a power outlet, so we've been running a Feliway plug-in off and on to hopefully help with their anxieties. And I also snuck some Rescue Remedy onto their food. Summit came to explore immediately and spent some time sleeping on my lap. Mitz just hung out in the carrier, but seemed happy. I have a cute picture on Jeff's phone I'll post of them cuddling when we find the cable to take it off the phone.
My highlights of Friday include finding Jack Link's A1 flavored beef jerky. And also going through Cuba, NY. OK, so not through Cuba, but we were very near to Cuba. Where they make cheese. In fact, Gramda Carm sent us a care package that included black olives and Cuba Cheese Curds. Yum! Those were greatly appreciated! And we also saw this funny little rainbow. I'll ask Mel (Jeff's Dad) about it. It was just a teeny tiny thing in the sky - not a whole one. I guess there's a real name for them so when I figure it out I'll post about it.
When we were leaving Grandma Carm’s, we went through this little tiny town. I wish we had gotten a picture, but they had this freaky little statue of a squirrel. Normally that wouldn’t be too scary. But it was dressed like Ronald McDonald. Red hair, red nose, the stripes - pretty much the works. Creepy!
I waved to the signs to Toledo, Ohio signs I saw because I “know” someone who lives there. Little did I know I was waving at the same time another person I “know” was going to pick up her new puppy. Congrats, Meghan!
On our way to Dayton, I saw this sign that I can’t begin to accurately describe. It was a sign for a store called “Tubes & Hoses.” What was extremely amusing about it was that the people who made the sign made the letters look like they were made out of hoses. Their “T” looked an awful like a “P.” It was a cheap thrill.
We stopped in Dayton to see A, J and their new (new to us since we hadn’t seen him yet, but he’s 8ish months old now) baby Q. It was really good to see them and to meet Q. He’s a total cutie pie; he likes hair, watches and enjoys drooling. He recently learned to crawl, and when we let Sum out of her carrier she was not excited about that. But she did let him pet her which was very nice. He’s also very close to learning how to stand on his little wobbly legs and has his first teeth. It was a very different experience than seeing S & S's (my old boss and her husband's) 5 week old baby J that we were able to meet on Thursday night.
My other highlights of the day include seeing a convoy of 21 sparkly unmarked school buses. They were almost as much fun to count as a train. And also driving through Summit County, though I think I was more excited about that than Summit was. There was also an amusing sign in Missouri that was advertising free chicken with 100 gallons of gas. However, they didn’t clarify what kind of chicken. A live chicken? A bucket of chicken? Maybe a frozen chicken?
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