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lydamorehouse) wrote2021-08-30 07:29 am
lydamorehouse) wrote2021-08-30 07:29 am
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I Have Tried to Love Indiana... and Failed
I don't know if I hate the whole state of Indiana, but ValParasio has never, in all the years we have visited Shawn step mother here, grown on me.
But, you know, after today, we probably won't be back.
Ah, so our trip so far!
Shawn did an amazing job packing up our car on Saturday morning. We then travelled only two and a half hours to LaCrosse, Wisconsin, to visit with my folks. We had a lovely meal and chatted a bit and then headed to Madison, Wisconsin. We stayed at a hotel in Monona? It seemed to be a little suburbish neighborhood. There were sandhill cranes, just wandering around. I tried to get a nice shot of them, but they were easily spooked and my phone's telephoto is kind of crap. When Mason and I went off to find takeaway, we saw a woodchuck? It was a big boi rodent, at any rate, on someone's lawn.
The next day, we drove through Chicago to ValParaiso, Indiana. Again, not a super long jag of this trip, but we figured that we might as well see Mason's grandparents as we take him off to university. We had a nice diner at Shawn's stepsister's place and got to see Grandma Margaret at her new nursing home digs as well as at Karen's.
We are heading from here (IN) to Buffalo, New York. Wish us luck. It's going to be a long day--Google thinks seven hours, so we are expecting nine or ten. Once we're in Buffalo, we will zip down to Middletown, Connecticut for Mason's move-in day. Shawn and I are planning to check out the area a bit and then start the long trek back!
Hopefully, I will get better pictures than a blurry pair of sandhill cranes at some point!
But, you know, after today, we probably won't be back.
Ah, so our trip so far!
Shawn did an amazing job packing up our car on Saturday morning. We then travelled only two and a half hours to LaCrosse, Wisconsin, to visit with my folks. We had a lovely meal and chatted a bit and then headed to Madison, Wisconsin. We stayed at a hotel in Monona? It seemed to be a little suburbish neighborhood. There were sandhill cranes, just wandering around. I tried to get a nice shot of them, but they were easily spooked and my phone's telephoto is kind of crap. When Mason and I went off to find takeaway, we saw a woodchuck? It was a big boi rodent, at any rate, on someone's lawn.
The next day, we drove through Chicago to ValParaiso, Indiana. Again, not a super long jag of this trip, but we figured that we might as well see Mason's grandparents as we take him off to university. We had a nice diner at Shawn's stepsister's place and got to see Grandma Margaret at her new nursing home digs as well as at Karen's.
We are heading from here (IN) to Buffalo, New York. Wish us luck. It's going to be a long day--Google thinks seven hours, so we are expecting nine or ten. Once we're in Buffalo, we will zip down to Middletown, Connecticut for Mason's move-in day. Shawn and I are planning to check out the area a bit and then start the long trek back!
Hopefully, I will get better pictures than a blurry pair of sandhill cranes at some point!
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