It was great to spend some quality time with the family and Anna and Dex just LOVE to spend time with the cousins. Since Anna is such a big girl now, we let her stay up until midnight on New Year's Eve...she felt so proud and accomplished...but ended up melting down (as expected).
Marco was fun as usual. What was very unusual was our adventure on the way home.
The 2013/2014 winter has been one for the record books. Since November, we haven't seen the sun, the temperatures above 20 or the ground (it's been covered in snow). Each week it gets worse and worse and everyone is pretty much going crazy. That's why it was SO nice to get away and head down to a warmer, sunnier climate. However, we weren't expecting the ordeal we experience on our way back home.
We arrived at the airport for our flight home (with no hats, coats, gloves, etc.) to find out that all flights to Chicago, and all Midwest cities, had been cancelled due to a massive blizzard. They told us we wouldn't be able to get on a flight until days later and that would be a flight into Indianapolis...that's as close as they could get us to Chicago. No good.
So, Bill and I made the last minute decision to rent a minivan (I know!) and drive all the way back to Chicago. We packed all of our stuff and the kiddos into the van and headed on our 1,500 mile journey back home. The first night, we made it all the way to Nashville, Tenn. We were feeling pretty good about that, since it's more than halfway home we hadn't gone crazy from Dex's screaming (poor little guy). We stayed in a hotel and everyone actually got some decent sleep
The next morning, we woke up and hit the road immediately. We knew we were on borrowed time because of another huge storm was on its way, followed by a record-breaking plummet in temperatures. The snow really got bad when we hit Indianapolis (only 3 hours away)!! So bad, in fact, that we had to pull over and stay in a hotel until it got a little safer
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