This was travel day, and we were tired! I took a little snoozer for the first part of the trip but then we got stopped in the middle of the boonies by a train. And, by looking at the road maps there was no way to turn around and get around it either. I'm not sure why Maps took us a different way home than they how they took us there, but they did and this way was much less awesome. It was a lot of 'highways', by which I mean two lane roads in the middle of nowhere. We weren't on expressways so there weren't exits or places to eat or anything. We wanted to stop and get some food but then were in the middle of a HUGE rain storm. It was intense. We finally got around to stopping and we thought we'd try a Cracker Barrel. A lot of people I know rave about how amazing it is and the only time I ever had it I got sick after (now, I don't know if it was motion sickness or the food so I was willing to give it another shot). Needless to say, I will not be dining there again. I think that most people must like the store that is in the front of the restaurant but the actual restaurant itself is overpriced and the food isn't that great. Now, I know I like to eat a lot of food but even their portion sizes were tiny. I was grumpy from being in the car and then we paid a lot of money for not good food, and I left hungry.
Back on the road we had to stop in Kalamazoo because we had signed Lucy up for the mud run months ago but then realized that it was the same day as the Half Marathon that Holly, her friend Elizabeth and I were running. So, we just went and picked up her packet which had her shirt in it and her bib. She was pretty thrilled about that!
Back on the road to GR because I was going to stay overnight at Mom and Dad's as Holly was picking me up at o dark thirty the next morning to get to the race. G and the kids were headed home so that they could get a good nights rest and meet us up in Ludington afterwards. I was exhausted and pretty happy to be not in the car. It was a long day, but the kids did really well! On to the next adventure...
JVG
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