So - the furkids got to go on their first roadtrip!!!! We packed up the Passat and headed for the open road on Thursday June 7th! We drove about five and half hours to PA to visit the Capper's and their new farm. Lilliputian got a little overwhelmed by the chickens, roosters, kittens, cats, dog, puppies and horses but Shackleton had a blast. He and Katie Dog rough housed all over the place. We got to see the puppies that Katie Dog had about nine weeks ago. There is one yellow that Kenn is keeping named Samson but there are still two little adorable black labs left. If I could, I would have taking them with us but we can't have anymore pets for awhile. They have HUGE paws which of course I like because I like big dogs. Shackleton is my lap dog ;) Anyways, we spent the late afternoon with the Capper's and Veronica made a Doug favorite - lasagna!!! Yum! After dinner, we sat outside and watched the sun go down while the dogs played and Lilliputian hung out in her stroller.

 

Friday morning dawned early and Veronica made us breakfast before we got on the road around 8:30AM - It was a long drive but we were making good time until we hit the Indian\Illinios border. YUCK!!! Traffic construction and congestion was awful. It took us until 7:30PM to get to my friend Steph's house. We had originally planned to meet my Aunt Arleine, Uncle Larry and Uncle Dick to go out for Fish Fry Friday but our timing got to late. Instead, Doug and I ordered pizza to go from one of my favorite Pizza Places in Milwaukee - Barbierre's! I used to go their when I was in high school and their pizza is still awesome! We took it out to Steph's house and had dinner on the patio. It turned out to be a good thing in some ways. I had been worried about Lilliputian because she didn't eat or drink anything Thursday (except I heard her crunching a little bit of food in the middle of Thursday night and Friday morning I put her litter box in the bathroom with me so she at least went once) and had actually called the vet Friday during the day. Our vet told me not to worry to much, cats come from the desert and they can be like little camels sometimes. If she didn't start eating\drinking\using her box by Saturday morning, she said I could take her to a local vet for IV fluids. However, she really settled in at Steph's house and started gulping down the water. Shackleton had a blast in the backyard with Sonny but Steph had taken Sonny for a walk earlier and Sonny was a little bit tired. Liana came over and we had a good time catching up with what is going on in our lives. It was great timing too because Amber was in town from Bali with little Blessing. I can't believe how much he has grown this past year. We went for a walk before bed and Blessing was babbling in Balinese - he has great rythm and even though I couldn't understand what he was saying, he felt very strongly about it! ;)

 

Saturday morning, Amber made scrambled eggs with lots of love and Steph made my favorite - door county cherry stuffed french toast!!! Yummy! After that, we loaded Shackleton up and put Lilli in her car seat and got back on the road again. We headed up to Appleton for my sister's high school graduation party. That was fun - my Aunt Arleine and Uncle Larry made it up from Butler and my cousins Karla and Krut plus my Aunt Bonnie and Uncle Kenny were there. Uncle Kenny was in charge of the grill and my Mom made awesome potato salad. Shackleton hung out with the guys guarding the tub of beer ;) After Bud opened her presents, we headed over to Kurt's house for a quick tour and chat. Then we were on the road one more time!!! We stopped off to load the trunk with Leinenkugel's plus the new Miller Chill! In Milwaukee, we stopped at the Sentry's on State to pick up some door county cherries (plus a quick stop across the street for subs from Cousin's) and then we were back in the car.  

 

Lilliputian must have some sort of traffic radar going on because she had been fine in her car seat for the whole duration of the trip until that Saturday night when she start fussing. Each time, about five minutes later we were stuck in traffic. I finally gave up when we hit the 294 just south of Chicago and traffic had come to a screeching halt. We sat parked for what seemed like forever. I finally said, screw this and made my way across three lanes to get off but somehow ended up back on an on ramp by passing everything and to open road. Doug drove for about an hour after that but then he too decided to call it a night and we found a hotel to crash in.

 

Sunday morning we were woken up by Lilli telling us to get out of the rack, feed her and get back on the road. So, off we went. On Sunday we drove over 700 miles and the furkids did awesome!! We learned some stuff to take into consideration for our trip cross country but overall they were awesome and exceeded our expectations!!!