Welcome home!
Ah. It is great to be home.
I posted photos on Flickr from our trip and the wedding
Rachael and Jonathan’s beautiful wedding cake:
Celebrating my 24th birthday in rainy Duluth:
And now for the Stankey Road Trip Recap …
- I felt like my mom, in a good way, when we left. Packing a tasty lunch and bringing a roll of paper towels and extra water bottles. All of which were needed.
- We listened to half of John Hodgman’s The Areas of My Expertise. At one point, I was laughing so hard (while drinking water) and I ended up spitting it out…quite a wet pants situation. (This is where the paper towels came in handy.)
- We watched the gas prices increase from $3.80 to $4.05 as we drove north and spent $175 in gas over 900 miles.
- We were adopted into the Cushing family as Rachael’s long lost Cottey College sister and were invited to the yummy rehearsal dinner.
- We took advantage of our hotel (Polynesian Water Park theme) and acted like kids, sliding down the huge water slides and screaming during each turn.
- We took around 300 photographs during our trip, only the good ones made it onto Flickr.
- We, once again, were adopted into the Cushing family as they invited us over after the wedding for pizza and beer with the whole family.
- We helped set up and tear down for the wedding. We liked this much better than actually being in the wedding.
- We celebrated my 24th birthday in Duluth and then driving home to Madison.
- We bought some tasty dark roasted coffee beans from the Whole Foods Co-Op, as recommended by Jonathan and Rachael.
- Robb majorly stubbed his big toe when we were packing up the car to go home. Tore off about a million layers of skin. Emergency trip to the grocery store where I stocked up on Band-Aids, ibuprofen, and cookies.
- Enjoyed 9 hours of thunder and lightening and rain storms (apparently most of Wisconsin was on Tornado Watch when we were driving home).
- We found a quaint indoor mall near the water in Duluth and spent a while walking around, enjoying being warm and dry.
- Treated ourselves to some coffee after being severly under-caffeinated (Jessie, mainly).
- Robb provided breakfast in bed at the hotel (via the contential breakfast in the hotel) consisting of cereal, homemade waffles and hot chocolate. Yum! And we watched My Super Ex-Girlfriend and decided it was better than the reviews claimed.
- And we went to Robb’s favourite for lunch: Famous Daves. Not half bad. And my birthday cake was a big serving of Bread Pudding.
I hope you have enjoyed our little recap. Quite an eventful road trip, especially for our first one.
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