My son and I are visiting Ethan and Laura in Nebraska. We left a little after 8AM and made the 8 hour trip. That’s about how long it is if you include two stops. I had this trip planned since the beginning of the year since it’s easy to know when this meet is going to be. Leading up to coming here I’ve been slightly dreading the drive. Before when I came, I stayed the night in Sioux Falls. This time we’re driving back after the meet.

It’s three and a half hours to Sioux Falls from Seward. So I’m picking up Laura around 3:30 when she is done with school. Then we will drive up for this meet and the college men’s race at 9PM. Do you ever make plans and then later as it gets closer you start to think, “I wasn’t really thinking this through…” I would just stay but then you run into the issue of hotel rooms. None of us really have the extra money for extra rooms.

Well anyway. We arrived around 4PM and checked into our bed & breakfast. It’s this cute old house where Elianna and I stayed. No one else is here so we have the place to ourselves. We ate supper at the apartment and then played the game, “Sounds Fishy”. It was fun until the very end when there was a slight interpersonal snag which I’m pretty sure resulted in hurt feelings. I don’t think it’s necessary to bite your tongue every time.