Tuesday Tales: All Good Things Must Come to an End

 

Thanks for reading along the past couple of weeks – vacation tales are so fun to share. Alas, they must apparently also come to an end. And we have reached that day. On our last morning in Charleston, we had breakfast at the hotel and packed up all our stuff to haul it back out to the vehicle. Our room was good to us while we were there, and we were glad for all the space it provided.

                We got on the road and started making our way through the mountains. They are just so pretty. I hope my Midwestern self never ceases to be amazed by mountains.

                Another amazing sight? We stopped at a gas station for fuel and some food – and this was their coffee bar. Now that is intense for a gas station!

                A not-so-amazing sight? Long slow-downs. Construction. I took advantage (see what I did there?) of our stopped time to read to Ryan from this book that he has to read for work. It was actually a fascinating book, and I underlined a lot of things for my own self!

                Found another tunnel!

                More mountains and oh!! A crack in our windshield. Womp womp. We never heard anything hit, but the more we jostled over the road, the bigger that crack grew. (We made it home with our windshield intact and have since had it replaced. All is well.)

                Ahhh the clean restroom mecca! To this point in our day, we had only stopped a couple of times for food and bathroom breaks. Somewhere along the way in the day, we had decided to power through and just GET HOME. We stopped here, got some food, and ate in the parking lot (while standing, so we could stretch our legs) before the final push.

                I did have a couple of questions about merchandise in the store. First, who wants to get me this shirt?

                And I’m curious about who to takes drinks into the shower?? Am I the only one who doesn't?

                We found Indiana about sunset and finally made it home around 11 p.m. It had been something like a 14 hour day of driving.

                In rare Shaffer form, we didn’t even bother to unpack. Just went to bed.

                The next morning we slept in a bit, Ryan made us some breakfast, and then we went on a big grocery haul. Then it was time to go pick up our sweet baby girl. She had the BEST time boarding with her groomer. They had so many adventures, and our sitter even made us a video of her fun. We loved it so much. (Here are some screenshots from the video.)

                We spent the rest of the day with extra lovins and snuggles for our sweet girl.

                My beans came up while we were gone!

                Home again…