So, on November 28th, The Sarah and I left at about 8am, venturing out of the state of Michigan in hopes to reach Missouri in one piece...
Little did we know, that we would sit in Chicago traffic for a period of time and be INCREDIBLY bored in Illinois.
The story starts early in the morning...we decided that McDonald's breakfast sounded great...so ha. Then we get gas, then we go. So with our red bull's in hand, we venture out onto I-94 West for 283 miles (ish) which kicked us out right near Chicago...which, because it's near Chicago, it sucks for traffic, no matter what you do. We only sat in traffic for about 20-25 minutes, but it was still annoying. After that, we got onto I-80, the toll road...which we accidental missed the lane to pay them for...oops...I'll probably get a ticket here in 6-8 weeks...oops...but not the point.
Illinois is INCREDIBLY BORING. It's flat, there is nothing to look at, and it's LONG AS HELL. It sucks.
But eventually, we got to Missouri, alive and in one piece, and called it good. We got to our hotel, The Knights Inn, and passed out immediately, on account of us getting between 1 1/2 to 3 hours of sleep each the night before.
Small tid-bit...right before I TOTALLY passed out...that point between barely conscious and knocked out, something grazed my arm by my tattoo...which was way over my head...not thinking, I figured it a hair...WRONG...it was a bug. Maybe a centimeter big. Kinda creepy...EEWWW.
So, we had family day, it was cool, we went bowling with some of his friends. The day after, his graduation, was so awesome, I was so proud of him, we all were, even his dad and step mom made it out there, which rocked as well. I was so glad to see him after 3 1/2 long months, I'm so glad to have him home.
The trip back was a bit different, we stopped in Alton, Illinois, which is where Sarah's dad, Ted, lives, we got there Friday night and left Sunday morning. Ted sends his regards to everybody, by the way.
We got home, which was also nice, Illinois was still boring, it rained the whole time. Literally. All it did was rain. Sometimes hard, sometimes not so hard. But it just rained.
So that's basically all that happened, well, maybe not detailed every little thing, but close. If any more questions, interesting or not, go ahead and ask. I'll let you know. HAVE A NICE DAY!!!
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You think Illinois is boring, wait until you have to drive through Nebraska with only a portable cd player that wont stop skipping and all you have to hear is Blue Oyster Cult singing "desolate lanscape..." I think it took us like 5 hours just to get through the stupid state. I thought I had seen boring until we hit that.....
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