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Ok, well it was our first day on the road. We left around 11am. We had borrowed my dad's truck a couple weeks ago to do our move, so the first stop was back in Indiana to drop the truck off and pick up his minivan. THANK YOU DAD! We made a quick trip by Ivanhoes because hey, well you don't pass that up :-) (That is the most awesome ice ...

On the way out of Champaign-Urbana, we saw this giant cross next to the I-57. Must be one of those quirky roadside attraction things. It's huge and looks like it has floodlights all around it. Man. This really marks the start of the Bible Belt, doesn't it?

Hi all Quite a day...got going early as possible after a long 10 hour day yesterday and harty breakfast within walking distance (so we wouldn't have to drive our rig!...gosh, we feel like truck drivers!) Anyway, got a good distance behind us and made it through Missouri okay until rush hour, 5pm downtown St. Louis and as we were ...

... waiting period waived due to his medical needs. If that happens I would be able to leave Vlad a few days after court and then spend a couple days in Moscow dealing with the Embassy then be on the way home. If I am unable to get the waiting period waived, I will probably be heading home around the 1st of October. It has been a crazy morning figuring out the flight schedule. The flights are getting very full to Moscow and just moving ...

YIPPEE!! I finally got the "call". My court date has been set for September 15th. I will be leaving either the 8th or 9th. The best part of the news is that I am going to be with him on his 2nd birthday and that he will not have to celebrate another birthday in the baby house. I will update this blog as often as I can to keep you all up on the latest news ...

... in control. Heavy traffic of Indianapolis made it difficult to stop and fix. The Rain-X did work though to get us through. We're all now huddled in our camper with the Coleman Black Cat running and Gerry's bottle of Scotch and my bottle of Cocoanut Rum trying to beat the Flying-J WiFi cut out. Ha, another joke. Guess I'll end up going inside to send this. See you all up the road somewhere.

Today we spent most of the day visiting family. However, the day started at the coffee shop. We have a tendency to be very early risers when we are on vacation, so it's a nice place to go and hang out while we wait for everyone else to wake up. We drove out to Dale's Grandfathers farm (between Matoon and Charleston) and spent some time visiting with him. We had a really nice ...

Our room is 'Dales old room', the second floor (attic) room. It is actually very nice, not the most comfortable bed, but your own bathroom. And it was the only room in the house that didn't TOTALLY reek of cigarette smoke. Heading down the steep narrow staircase in the morning I felt like a plane coming in for a landing in L.A. the smoky haze growing ever ...

... we got totally taken, but unfortunately there's not too much you can do in a situation like that. We just took it and smiled and said "thank you officer". The mood took a definite turn at this point. Very little was said for the remainder of the drive (hours) and now we were going to be getting in later than expected. About 40 minuets from town Dale called his Mom to tell her we were almost there, and let her know the day we had had. Her and her partner Sharon ...