the 8 hour trip that took 14+

These first two are out of order, oops. As you can see, we arrived safely and Aurora is having a blast. She and Ezekiel are great friends already, and she likes Carl (the dog) quite a bit too.

 Discover toy guns. ya, we are in the US now. lol. Here she is "shooting" Carl. She hasn't really figured out how to hold the gun properly despite her daddy's best efforts to correct her.

 Ok, back to the trip from hell.

Unfortunately i didn't even think about taking pictures until we were through the worst of it, i was too stressed out and freaked to think about pictures.
It was still pretty bad at this point, worse than I've ever seen (but an improvement from earlier in the trip believe it or not)

Here is a picture of our GSP showing how slow we were driving. At times we were down lower. Oh, it also shows our estimated arrival time, we didn't actually get in till after 2am (time change made it 1am)

 This picture doesn't really do it justice, but this road was down to 1 lane, the other lane had several feet of snow covering it.Our lane had a lot of big drifts on it to that we kept having to plow through.

 the sun setting, great now we get to do it in the dark!! good thing we were already past the really bad parts!

 Us, driving

 Aurora. She was an angel, i couldn't believe how good she was stuck in that chair for 14 hours with only 2 breaks. We could tell people were praying (also for the fact that we didn't go off the road or crash)

 Here is another attempt to show how bad the road was. Still doesn't do it justice.

Once we got to the 401 it was a lot better. We still kept it well under the speed limit though. By the time we reached the US we were so tired and relieved. And even more so once we finally reached Chicago!!

Now that we are here we are having a great time with our dear friends (who happen to be family also). Aurora and Zeke already love each other and are having a blast playing together.

Today I'm going to have lunch with two of my very good friends from work. I'm really looking forward to seeing them since the last time was a year ago.