DAY 9: Easy Breezy

Nothing exciting to report for the day. Just a day of driving and hanging out with Luna. It does seem like we've been stopping more lately...Luna has been fidgety and locking up the seatbelt. We feel dirty and damp, but we keep going and we still really really like each other.

I've listened to more audiobooks and enjoyed them all.
I finished "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch and was easily touched by the sweetness and sadness.
An unusual choice for me, a fiction novel, "Grace," by Richard Paul Evans about an abused teenager who runs away, was such a quick listen. I was sad when it was over. Maybe I'll listen to more of his books...
I loved Bill O'Reilly's "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity." He read it and is a great reader and really good story teller.
The last book I borrowed for the trip is a biography of Albert Einstein and I'm enjoying it. I won't finish it on this trip, but will get thru about half. It's LONG! We're on disc 2 and I already know more about physics and Albert Einstein than ever before.

Well, a little bit of trivia on the trip: I've eaten out 4 times the entire adventure. The first was at the Surprise Party and the 2nd was the next night when we all went out to Maxwell's for pizza.

The 3rd came on our stressful day when I needed some comfort food.
A little internet search, a quick phone call and some MapQuest mapping got us to the Dynasty Cafe. They didn't have Boon Kai of Walled Lake quality Almond Chicken, but it was comforting enough and the vegetable friend rice had huge chunks of brightly colored veggies so we'll call the take-outing a success.




The 4th eating out experience came today:

Can't go wrong with a 99¢ Double Cheeseburger without the cheese and a large french fry with salt and pepper!
We'll see how Luna's stomach manages the tastes tonight...







Our Rock Island, Illinois KOA is drier this time and we're hopeful that we'll sleep through the train horns...? We're so excited to be home tomorrow that we probably won't sleep well at all tonight. It'll probably take us around 9 hours to get home if we stop like we did today. We've been waking up in the 7am range and our morning routine takes us about 2 hours so we should be ok through Chicago and get home in time to break Jason's ribs with the tightness of our hugs and overwhelm Satchel and Koko who think we left forever...

Luna and I thought you might like to know what it's like to set up the bed for sleeping so here's our slide show:

We enter the Kabin with our Sanitization Team of Clorox & Lysol

Surfaces we know we will touch are sprayed and wiped down

The fitted sheet is then put on the mattress


Next the pillow configuration is approved in order to support the knees and shoulder when lying on my side


Comforters are needed for cush and warmth. Only one is shown here. The Favorite: Jason's from when he left for college in 1988


With another sheet to 'protect' (as if that's even possible) the bedding from Luna hair, the bed making ritual is complete when the actual Luna arrives at the end of the bed!

We've improved with how much we bring into the Kabin each night, but there's still a lot. Some might call it ridiculous. We call it Our Essentials.

There will be a lot of laundry tomorrow so we'd better get ourselves ready for a good, or at least good-ish, night's sleep...that's a long process too...walk all the way to the showers, shower and brush teeth, walk all the way back, lotion, jammies, DVD choice, check e-mail, go out with Luna one more time, probably walk all the way to the bathrooms one more time, walk all the way back, wipe off Luna's feet, have her cuddle up, pack up what I can for the night, watch some L&O...you know easy stuff! No complaints here. Just things that take some time.

We'll have the Reunification Process tomorrow and hopefully have sweet pictures of what a good life we have at home.