We've made our way to Hoffman Estates, IL (about an hour's drive from downtown Chicago). It was a pretty smooth trip considering we have a 3-1/2-year-old, an almost-two-year-old, and a 3-month-old. We had minimal breakdowns, and the cars did great, too! Below is a picture of how we traveled.
We drove 11 hours or so from Provo, UT, to North Platte, NE, where we spent a night in a hotel. The next day we drove 12 hours and made it to Charleston, IL, to be with Sarah's family. The first leg of the drive seemed to go forever. Going up on Utah and Wyoming mountains was a challenge for our van. We followed some semis driving at 30-35 mph few times.
On the first day we stopped at a fastfood place in Laramie, WI, for dinner. Tamir was glad he didn't wear his BYU shirt that day because there were some Universiy of Wyoming fans there (both schools are in the same college sports division).
The girls loved watching
Finding Nemo over and over. They must have watched it 7-8 times those two days. We were glad that we all endured the trip.
I know these are hard to see, but I think they're funny. The top one is of our family with the names by them (as explained by Mary). The artistic dots are snow. I love that we're potatoes with protruding sticks for limbs. And Alli has hair drawn in, of course. The second picture is make-believe. She told me these people were Cody, Tody, and Kelly (and the horizontal lines across are wind). I don't think she knows anyone by these names. I would show Alli's artwork, but we've mostly erased it off the walls already.
