My own room

Sunday, April 7, 2024

I checked into a hotel by myself for the first time ever. OoOoOO! Exciting!

Benjamin, Sean, and I left Madison at 2:30. We stopped somewhere in Chicagoland at an Asian shopping area. I enjoyed looking around while TB and TS made small snack purchases. We zoomed into Indiana. After not too long we encountered our first slowdown. We went slow, then fast again. Then another slowdown – this one lasted longer than we were interested in being slowed down. When we finally got to the “crash”, it was a Greyhound bus on the side of the road and some guys from/with a car looking at it. Just standing on the side of the road, looking at a bus. 🤦‍♀️

We went into West Lafayette for root beer. When Benjamin juggled there some years ago he had some terrific locally made root beer, so we were questing to get some. They had one four pack left!! Better than none!

We had a leisurely dinner, then back on the road. The map told us not to go back on the highway from which we’d come, but instead drive down a nice, completely empty road. It was a treat to be away from all the cars.

I do not know what traffic is usually like in Indiana, but I think a lot of people were on the road for the eclipse. We arrived about 11:15- time changed – so it took us about 8 hours to get 5 hours away. Benjamin did a good job driving through some hours of rain. I only had a couple gasps in stop-n-go traffic (I’m a gasper). Sean researched where to see the eclipse from. Our rooms are adjacent and very nice. We got upgraded to rooms with kitchens and washer/dryers. I didn’t bring groceries or laundry!

Keith stayed home to work on the bathroom. There was just no other way. He really needs to be home for an important rehearsal on Thursday and he doesn’t want to leave without a functioning bathroom (everyone is in agreement on that decision). He had yet another setback this morning when some of the big wavy tiles came off the wall when he removed the spacers. Aughhhh! He had to work to make sure everything else was secure and re-do the ones that came off with altered mortar.

He let us know if you don’t really wash your hands well before you put on lotion (his hands are so dry from wet tiling gloves and mortar) it dries into a concrete and you can’t move. Learning! Here is a picture of a very wet arm covered in tile bits from the wet saw. 🙂