Back At Home!

It's good to be home!  We returned home early this afternoon.  We tried hard to make it home by the time the Cowboy's game started but we were a little late.  We arrived at my in-laws place to watch the game with them with about 2:00 minutes to go in the 1st quarter. We made decent timing!

We drove a significant amount for 4 days in a row!  We drove part way to Illinois on Thursday, drove the rest of the way on Friday.  We arrived in very good timing on Friday.  Which was nice.  We attended the funeral of Brad's best friend on Saturday then spent time with his friend's family. His friend's family showed us amazing hospitality while we were there.  It was a super small town.  With only 2 hotels to choose from.  They did have a Subway, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Sonic and a Walmart but not much else.  Brad definitely expressed that he couldn't imagine living in a place that tiny. I agree!  Those food places I mentioned plus Walmart are the most frequently seen "big" business we have noticed during our road trips. 

After spending time with his friend's family on Saturday afternoon we ended up leaving a bit later than we planned.  Which was no biggie, it just meant we had to do some night driving, which is something we typically try to limit. We drove from about 5:45 pm until around 11:30 pm.  After checking into a hotel and grabbing some fast food for dinner it was midnight.  We then stayed up to watch the rest of the ASU game.  What a crazy ending of that game!  Never seen anything like that before.

We woke up at the crack of dawn in my opinion.  We did make sure we took time for breakfast then started out for Dallas.  We didn't stop once today!  Drove from just outside Little Rock to Dallas without stopping.  My in-laws had a great meal ready for us when we arrived at their place.  The boys were of course happy to see us!  Soon after the Cowboy's game we brought the boys home and we've stayed in since then. 

Today is the anniversary of our first date.  We've officially been together for 4 years now!  Yay!  We will do our traditional dinner out to the restaurant we went to on our first date, however, we've postponed that evening out until next weekend.  Right now we're passing the time as we wait for the rain delay to end in Seattle.  We're watching the Sunday Night football game live from Seattle.  Go Seahawks!  Most importantly we're enjoying kicking back on our couch and relaxing after such a journey filled four days!