Michigan and BEYOND!

WE MADE IT!

I so misjudged my travel group! They all arrived, with the help of their driver not only on time, actually early!! The picture taking took up the extra time we gained by her being early. We did, however, make it out of town by 6:15 AM! WOW! Most of us tired, but we fit it ALL in! 6 woman and ALL the luggage!

If you can see, our tiara's a bit tilty, but we were all in costume!

We made it to our 1st destination about 11:30PM. We were able to shop on the way-would you expect less of 6 women?


We needed an adjustment because of a booking error. We booked for 4 people (We had great reasoning at the time-4 people per room! But they were actually looking for the TOTAL number of people in 2 rooms! Ooops.) But the hotel was awesome about the change. Rooms all okay.



UNLIKE the other hotels! I evidently have a hotel-booking-bad-experience problem! The second hotel in Romulus was a HUGE nightmare! Smoking-no A/C room problem. We ended up with 1 King bed and a single rollaway, requesting another rollaway bed. The management was VERY VERY VERY uncooperative.


But, we managed to make it to the Assembly on Saturday and looked pretty amazing!

Day 4 we drove to Minneapolis and did more shopping!!

This was an amazing part of the trip. We managed to fill 2 carts with goodies from IKEA and fit it all in the van WITH all of us and our luggage and our water AND popcorn in the shoes. (No road trip is a road trip without goodies!) Shoulda got the pic but not sure at that point where my camara was.

Again, hotel problems that night-no hot water and no A/C. Monday was again shopping at Mall of America and Albertville. Still fit it all in!

We made it home pretty late Monday. Some had work on Tuesday. I was home at 1AM and was not getting out of it even if I was awake at 5:30!

Lots of memories. We have the foot in the mirror, we had the hair on the leg contest, we had the steam-roller event. We had that morning person waking everyone up at 6AM problem (Really, guys, I was sorry for the time error!) We had conversations with truckers and a man with an alpaca while stuck in road construction traffic! Lots of hilarious moments.

And thanks to our GPS we made it! Won't leave home and EVER travel without it! You do have to be smarter than the GPS though. It made us miss a dinner with friends and be at the wrong restaurant! I guess you have to know the exact name of the city you want directions in! Still managed to get in some Tequilla shooters!

A clean van again and after a bit of jet lag, back on schedule!