Everyone wants to be with family during the holidays as soon as they can. Vladi and I talked all day as he filled me in on the weather. "Cleveland and Columbus have winter advisories and Cincinnati and KY are expecting ice," Vladi told me all day. We decided to wait until we got home (to our apt.) to decide if we would make the long trek home or wait until Christmas Eve when the temps would warm up. :( I imagined all day that we would go off the road in a dark area and be stuck on the side all night in the freezing rain and cold.
When we got home, we finished packing, Vladi changed the litter (Thanks Eric and Corazon for watching our feline babies), phone calls to our parents whom of course did not want us to drive, and Vlad made phone calls to friends about the weather in the cities we would pass through. We decided to go for it and drive as long as we could and then find a hotel. I packed just incase we got stuck-lots of blankets, food, and parenting magazines to catch up on. I let Vladi open up his BIG Christmas present, a GPS system, so we would have some fun driving and who knows, we might need all of the help it could give.
As we drove 40 mph, we could not see if the road was wet, icy, or both and when the tractor trailers were driving slow, we knew we better. Cars were off the roads everywhere and looked like they did 180s/360s. When we arrived at a rest stop and could not walk to the bathrooms without slipping, we decided we better stop soon. The GPS was amazing!!! TomTom (we call it for the brand) led us to Panera for a quick dinner, 2 hotels at different exits (no vacancy in one), and let us know our speed and when we would get home going at that speed. We left at 6:45 and our new buddy, TomTom, said we would not get home until 3:40 am if not later. Vladi did the math and going 40 mph, we would be driving another 4 hrs. when it should take 2 1/2. So we are now at The Hampton Inn in Jeffersonville, OH (1 hr north of Cincy.) We arrived here at 12:22 am.!!! Baby Boy G. must have slept the whole ride because he started moving right when we pulled up at the hotel. We will definitely get a picture of this for our "Last Christmas Just The Two Of Us" scrapbook that my teammate, Danielle, made for us.
When we got home, we finished packing, Vladi changed the litter (Thanks Eric and Corazon for watching our feline babies), phone calls to our parents whom of course did not want us to drive, and Vlad made phone calls to friends about the weather in the cities we would pass through. We decided to go for it and drive as long as we could and then find a hotel. I packed just incase we got stuck-lots of blankets, food, and parenting magazines to catch up on. I let Vladi open up his BIG Christmas present, a GPS system, so we would have some fun driving and who knows, we might need all of the help it could give.
As we drove 40 mph, we could not see if the road was wet, icy, or both and when the tractor trailers were driving slow, we knew we better. Cars were off the roads everywhere and looked like they did 180s/360s. When we arrived at a rest stop and could not walk to the bathrooms without slipping, we decided we better stop soon. The GPS was amazing!!! TomTom (we call it for the brand) led us to Panera for a quick dinner, 2 hotels at different exits (no vacancy in one), and let us know our speed and when we would get home going at that speed. We left at 6:45 and our new buddy, TomTom, said we would not get home until 3:40 am if not later. Vladi did the math and going 40 mph, we would be driving another 4 hrs. when it should take 2 1/2. So we are now at The Hampton Inn in Jeffersonville, OH (1 hr north of Cincy.) We arrived here at 12:22 am.!!! Baby Boy G. must have slept the whole ride because he started moving right when we pulled up at the hotel. We will definitely get a picture of this for our "Last Christmas Just The Two Of Us" scrapbook that my teammate, Danielle, made for us.
The hotel is nice, we are safe, and we have to laugh about our adventure trying to get home for Christmas.
