The longest day

Today was a really really long day. We didn't sleep as well as we expected to last night, because we had the dumbest bed in the full hotel. It was sloping towards the head, and not only that, the air conditioning fan was so loud that we awoke almost every ten minutes when it came on. The icing on the cake was that the room next to us was apparently empty (how could THAT be?). Either that or the patron was dead. The alarm clock was going before 7, and continued until after we left.

However--and this is important--the hotel manager did his best to make it well, better. He reduced the rate in half (the rate that had already been reduced by a third was reduced by another half). And he bought breakfast, which was actually pretty good. And it helped us today because we had so far to drive.

We drove from Chicago to Wisconsin. There's a lot of toll roads in Chicago! Then we cut diagonally across Wisconsin and came into Minnesota at St. Paul's. We decided to drive through the twin cities so that we could avoid the rush hour tomorrow. It's another long day! But at least at the end of it we get to see some cute kidlets and their parents.