Day 8

We said good-bye to Gary and Mike and Minnesota and headed in a direction we have come to love....SOUTH. After 8 days on the road we are all glad to be on the way to Chattanooga.

We stopped in Wisconsin for a Pop!

The ride down was very uneventful except for the fact Haley talked the whole way. She made up songs. She chatted nonstop. Until we were 4 blocks from our hotel, then she went to sleep. There is something that says the Bennett's have arrived when Haley gets out of the van crying and Christian Parks is turning flips. The girls and I were laughing uncontrollably. It may be time to come home.



Here is the view as we came into Chicago. There were 10 lanes of traffic completely full. We actually had to sit in traffic for a while. Hello, we have been in Nebraska, we haven't seen this many cars in 8 days. I guess we won't complain.
We got to our hotel and saw it was about to rain. We thought we would give it a few minutes before we headed out. Well, the bottom opened up. It poured. It stormed. Then we saw the weather. Tornado warnings in our area.....about the time we saw it on TV. The sirens went off. Christian Parks had a panic attack. (HARD TO BELIEVE BUT MATTY WAS FINE) We went down to the basement of the hotel with the other people in the hotel. So as it turns out... great memories....no tornado, just panic attacks. As I always say....It will be OK...or it won't! Today it was OK.

Happy Anniversary!!! Christian and I were married 20 years ago today!!! Hard to believe---time flies when you are having fun!!

We are blessed to have 4 great kids that wanted to spend 10 days in a mini van visiting 10 states with their parents...even were excited!

We are blessed every time we buy them something or take them somewhere they all say thank you.

Speaking of being blessed...there is nothing like Chicago deep dish pizza. We love Giordano's!!

We tried to go visit the Sears Tower (now the Willis Tower), but the visibility was 0-5 miles. Hope the weather is good tomorrow. Wonder what tomorrow holds?