On Monday we headed to North Carolina to stay and visit with our friends, Beth and Sandi. We got there about 330, so had plenty of time to chat, go out to dinner and still get to bed early for the long drive on Tuesday. We decided to take the 441 route and not go anywhere near Atlanta. It was a much prettier and less stressful drive. Everything was going well until we hit Florida and the rains from Debbie started. We got to I-10 and the traffic was backing up. They had closed I-10 due to flooding and were rerouting traffic. That had everything backed up to Lake City. We sat in traffic for almost 2 hours from I-10 to Lake City. When we finally got to the Lake City exit and traffic started moving again we saw that there was a big tractor trailer that had flipped in the far right lane and that had been part of the problem. A mile or so up the road in the other direction there was a very recent accident of two tractor trailers, and they blocked all three lanes, so I'm sure that I75 northbound was blocked for hours. We were really glad to make it home in one piece and see all of our babies. Laurel reported that everyone but Beau had been an angel (Beau likes to knock things off the counters) and after Buttons reprimanded me for leaving her, everything was back to normal.
We had a great time on our vacation (and are still talking to each other!) but are glad to be home, back in our own bed with cats sleeping on our heads. I'm sure I'll come up with another trip before too long.
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