After a quick night’s sleep we are ready to get some breakfast & head out — we are still about 10 hours from home. I was really excited to finally have a Cracker Barrel breakfast. Leo really liked the grits even though he kept telling me, “no grits mommy that’s oatmeal or papa cereal.” Gotta love this kid. Just before we headed out, Paul did a little check of the car and noticed a cut in the fount tire. He tracked down a tire store in town & with in 2 hours we had 2 new tires. Just wish we would have noticed it before breakfast but glad we noticed before we got on the road and it blew out. Leo seemed to enjoy our pit stop at Dollar General & I had time to stock up on wedding cards & sympathy cards. Two cards one always wants on hand but never seem to have time to shop for.

On the road again and at some point I can hardly stand sitting one more minute & we are at least 2 states from home. Leo was ready to be done too & what a smart kid we have, he knew if he asked for food we would stop. We were not impressed with all the toll stops in Illinois especially around Chicago. Around supper time we were near the Wisconsin Dells so we took Leo to Buffalo Phil’s to see the train. Man was that not a smart decision on our part. It was really busy, Leo was crabby, there were like no veggies at all on the menu & we ended up leaving our diaper bag there. However Buffalo Phil’s staff were really helpful in getting our bag back to us. We finally got home around 10pm & got to check out the storm damage from Friday’s storm here in the cities that left our neighborhood without power for 3 days. Our outdoor furniture was scattered around the yard along with many branches. We did have to clean the fridge & freezer. The hardest thing to throw out where the new box of dilly bars I just bought. I was happy to be home, but sad our adventure was over.