Travel for the Wedding

I will use this post only to talk about the trip to and from Cleveland for the wedding. I will not use it to talk about Ken and Jen's lovely wedding. That will get its own nice post.

Argh! We left LI around noon on Friday afternoon. You would think that that would be a great time to leave the island. Nope. Turns out they closed part of the LIE, westbound only, on the way to the GWB. After losing nearly an hour there, we were frustrated. Elliot was especially unhappy about travelling that day, too. We were caught in at least two other episodes of parking-lot-on-the-interstate traffic, too, due to construction. We were trying to make it to Cleveland in time to meet some of the Phi Kaps at Harry Buffalo, but we didn't get until about 11:15 PM. Elliot DID get to have her first Happy Meal, though. Once she really lost her mind, we decided to pull off and have dinner to get her out of the car. She had chicken nuggets, apple slices, and milk. What a big girl! (BTW, she had her second Happy Meal on Saturday...)

On the way back home, we thought it couldn't possibly take as long. We left around noon again, after the babies had their pics taken at JCP. The first six hours we really cruised. Then we hit construction again, and lost a ton of time. Then when we were at wits end, we got to the GWB and a sign that said "sixty minute delays." Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! It only ended up being about a 35 minute delay, but still. We got in at midnight. We should have flown.