The neverending drive
I am taking the next four days off of work (wow, I am taking days off of work?) to visit my sister down in champain-urbina, IL. I decided to rent a car and drive down instead of flying, wonder if that was a good decision. The basic route is 94/90 all the way through wisconson, then 39 and 74 through IL, overall about 550 miles. To start off with, I was up late last night, so this morning I got up an hour later than I was planning. I then went to get my rental car.
I decided to get my car from MSP airport, it was very convinient. I walked a block and a half, to catch the bus. took the bus to Mall of America, then I took the light rail train from the MOA to MSP. This worked out very well.
I got the car, and got home and packed. Normaly, I spend about 15 minutes packing. This time around, I spent a good 2 hours packing! Got everything all packed up, and then it was off to hit the road 2 hours late (about 10:15am instead of the 8:00am I was going for). The driving went on for ever, and ever, and ever, thank god for audiobooks (book name. author). I went down 94/90 for ever, thinking wisconson would never end, make it through wisconson, to discover I still need to make it halfway through illinois!
I made it to champagn-urbina at about 7:00pm, had dinner, then went for a walk to downtown urbana. This is mosrly a collage town, so downtown consists of basicly bars. We ended up going to the bus depot, then taking the bus back a bit.
After we went to visit my Sister at work. It was so cool seeing her in her Dr robe, all ready to work. She showed us around the animal hospitial. It was much larger than I was expecting. I normaly expect the type of thing that is at the normal smaller animal hospitals. This had a dedicated ER, exam rooms, full blown lab, pharmicy, etc.
After visiting with her for a bit, it was time to head back and get some sleep.