what a difference a day makes

It took two days, but we made it to Madison! Two cars, two cats, and two entirely different travel days.

The highlights:

Day 1

-Bumper-to-bumper traffic and pouring rain for four hours.

-Non-functional walkie-talkies within the first 20 minutes of the trip [side note: thank you to Carrie and Jeremy for lending us the walkies - they were super fun for 20 minutes!]

-A car-sick cat in the first 30 minutes of the trip. -A long detour off the main route to avoid traffic only to encounter a winding mountain road which caused both cats enough distress that Lucy excessively foamy-drooled to the point of having a Santa Claus beard and Sam meowed incessantly.

-Re-enactments of the foamy-drool/meowing whenever the driving was bumpy, hilly, stop-and-go or in any way not smooth.

-Total travel time of twelve hours which should have taken eight. blah.

Rain.

Rain + traffic.

No thank you.

Day 2

-Blue skies.

-Flat, straight, smooth midwestern highways.

-A bottomless snack bag.

-Peacefully sleeping kitties all day long!

Blue sky, flat road, windmills!

Despite the comedy of errors yesterday, there were several silver linings. First was the amazing goodie bag from C&J, including a ton of snacks (both for humans and felines) a mix cd from Erin (thanks, E!) and the complete works of Super Secret Comedy! And I can't complain about a free room due to the management accidentally overbooking the hotel!

But that's all over and done with! Now we're finally here!