One of the boys and I left around 8 this morning for Nebraska. The students are off for Christmas break once their finals are done. Until recently I thought the last final was over sometime around 4:30, but actually there was one at 7PM. I’ve never heard of a final being given that late before.

There really isn’t much between here and there. Chillicothe, MO is about the most happening place where you feel like there are really places to stop and see things. So we stopped there and ate lunch at Applebees. We normally wouldn’t go to a sit-down place but we had no reason to rush.

We knew about the 7PM final several days ago, so I’m not inferring that I only found that out today. I wasn’t sure what we were going to do in the gap of time from when we were supposed to arrive and when the final would be over. We tried looking for a hotel in Lincoln but that ended up being a hassle.

I thought if we did that it’d get us home sooner, being at least a half hour closer when we started tomorrow. And then I was like, “Why aren’t we there like right now, watching practice? I decided to go to Seward and we’d just have to deal with having the extra half hour. It made so much more sense.

So here we are in the hotel room. The younger son and I did find the older one. We drove him back to his room and said we’d see him in a bit. After supper the two of us walked around the town square. We drove around and looked at lights then watched a small part of Home Alone 2 while we waited.