road trip '08!

We've talked about taking a road trip for quite some time but with the high gas prices we refrained. But as you all know, they've been dropping so last night we made it to Hudson. That's right ladies and gentlemen - Hudson, Wisconsin. If you don't already know, 94East takes you directly there.

After hanging out at Matt's Bar (home of the Juicy Lucy), we thought we were going home but "missed the turn". Trent was driving. Steph nonchalantly said: "Let's take a road trip!!!" Trent, being the literal interpreter that he is, said "Ok." So we drove around some St. Paul backroads and went through the McDonald's drive-through. It was quite disappointing that they only offered vanilla. But the good part was that Trent paid for everyone. After this, Trent pulled onto 94East rather than 94West (which would have taken us home). He purposly did this. Andrea said "Oh."

So we turned up the hip-hop music and did a little dancing. Trent kept driving and driving...all the way to Wisconsin. Trent and Katie jumped out of the car and ran for a couple minutes. We stayed in Wisconsin for about 5 mintues and turned around and came home. Oh man, it was fun.

On the way home we stopped at a rest-stop because Trent was getting sleepy. We pulled in next to the truckers and Trent reclined his seat into Andrea's knees. He requested a newspaper and used it as a blanket. After about three seconds he sat back up and announced that he was well rested.

The atmosphere was quite different on the return-trip. Most were tired and the music changed to country. The other problem was when Katie found out that her partially un-eaten ice cream cone that she stuck in the car melted. Hmm. Good lesson. So moral of the story. Don't leave ice cream in cars while on a road trip to Hudson.

Can't wait for road trip '09...or maybe road trip '08 part 2. Secure your spots now. The car is full. But we can maybe rent a van...or talk to Tyler.