Thankfully today was a short day! We got up and out of Gallipolis, OH fairly early--7ish but I had been up since 5:15am hoping to get out of town really early. Stephen is kind of slow to get ready. :)
We drove through some really erratic weather--one moment it was snowing like mad and the next it was just windy and sunny. The worst snow was in Indianapolis as we were leaving. We made a quick 4 hours and some minutes trip to Indianapolis to see some of our "old" Des Moines friends who live there now. It was a short stop but really great to catch up and see their kids.
From Indy we made the 2 hour trip to Champaign, IL to meet up with Grandpa Harding. Overall a pretty lame day. The fuse blew in the plug in part of the DVD player (did you know it had a fuse? Neither did I!). So around the 3 hour mark when the girls were bored to tears I tested the DVD player out to find out it was not working. Yikes! Poor Avery is like her mama and gets car sick when reading, drawing or looking at ANYTHING while riding in the back seat. Poor kid. So we played several Kindermusik CDs, the girls told stories to each other with sock puppets and I read off every city or name I saw and they told me whether or not it was funny. Some funny words: Toledo, Keowee and Kickapoo. Some not funny words: Indianapolis, Xenia and Dayton.
Meeting friends and then family threw us off our clean eating routine rather quickly. We did start off the day with our usual green smoothie thanks to Stephen's genius idea to bring along our Vitamix. So far that is going well. We found some bananas at the hotel and we had packed kale, blueberries, raspberries, coconut water and yogurt. We ended with Chipotle for dinner at 5pm and Stephen is off getting our "midnight" snack of a vegetarian salad bowl and his crunchy tacos. It is an hour earlier here so a second dinner at 8:58pm isn't that weird, right?
I did have a bit of a revelation when we first entered the good ole midwest (or nearly the midwest) the air is so much cleaner and crisper smelling... of course it is also socolditfreezesyoureyelidsopenmotherf@%!ingfreezing so maybe that cleanses the nasty from the air. HA. Either way- the cold felt great for a bit until I had to carry both of my children into Target for our midway walk around break!
We aren't driving anywhere tomorrow. Just hanging out at the hotel with Grandpa Harding. The wind is whistling right through the hotel windows and the forecast says it will be 8 degrees tonight. Still NO snow to play in so this cold isn't even the "Fun cold" Avery has been waiting for.
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