Roadtrip Insanity

Well... We are finally in Michigan after an incredibly long five days. The trip was fun (I guess?) but also incredibly... eventful, to say the least.

I shall explain:
Day number 1: This was the only day that went smoothly. Hooray Utah!

Day number 2: This is where things got interesting. We left early the next morning. The woman at the resort we stayed at suggested the scenic route. Oh, it was scenic alright. It was about two hours of extra driving time filled with scenery (she told us thirty minutes). We managed to find a Subway where they told us we were 8 hours away from Denver, which was our destination. We thought it'd only be three. THEN one of my family members had to go to a medical clinic for reasons I shall not mention. It was a dinky little place in some hodung town in the midde of nowhere. We were there for a couple hours and then were on our way.

Day number 3: We woke up and it was drizzling. We tried to turn on my windshield whipers, only to discover one of them was stuck because the nut was stripped. So we went to the car dealership to get it repaired. They didn't have the right nut, but they put on a temporary one. It was a good thing, because later that night a massive storm came across our path. By massive I mean... Buckets of rain, cats and dogs if you would like to put it that way. Lightning... HUGE LIGHTNING. My mother was frightened. And thunder. It was interesting. But we made it to Nebraska.

Day number 4: We left Nebraska and headed for Chicago. It wasn't too bad in the beginning, but at night it started storming again. (FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE NOT ACTUALLY READING THIS BECAUSE YOU'RE BORED, THIS PART IS MORE INTERESTING). My dad needed to figure out what hotel we were staying at, so we pulled off and went into a McDonalds. While we were in there, the storm worsened, and about five minutes later we hear "The tornado sirens are going off! GET IN THE BASEMENT!" So, we went into the basement and waited for the sirens to go off. It was only about fifteen minutes, and then we were finally able to make it to Chicago.

Day number 5: After a nice day of sight seeing in the windy city, we were once again on our way, this time to GR. Well, once we got on the highway, we noticed there was an abnormally large amount of traffic. As in, it wasn't moving. At all. So after two hours of waiting, we had moved about one mile. We finally managed to get to an exit. We went in a Burger King and asked what the hold up was, and discovered that the highway was flooded for about two miles. In other words, we couldn't get through. So we pulled out the grand old atlas and figured out an alternate route... but of course that took us about an hour. Then the alternate route didn't go as planned bc the street we were on was closed bc of flooding. BUT a couple hours later, we finally found our way and got past the flood.


So... I am now sitting in our hotel at the Prince Conference Center at Calvin. I am alive, as is all my family and Steph (who a man in Nebraska thinks is my adopted twin, thanks to my mother). My car also survived the tornado. Hooray!

Cristina, I think your trip went slightly smoother than ours. Haha.