The World's Longest Day

I've had some long days, but yesterday was a new record for long days.  The day started with a red eye flight home from California, leaving at 2:00 am EST and arriving in Detroit at 6:30 am.  Ryan picked me up and we hit the road to get out new puppy.  The original plan was to drive to Bedford, PA and meet the breeder, but after they received a horrible storm with damage the plan was derailed.  So we arrive in Bedford and find out that she hasn't even left home (which is 4 hours away).  So we get back in the car and keep driving... to where we didn't know.  And let me remind you I'm going on about 0 hours of sleep and the previous night I had gotten up on Michigan time in California - not the bed idea.  Also by now we have eating McDonald's in 3 different states... breakfast in Michigan, lunch in Ohio and a shake in PA.  


We finally get word from the breeder that her boyfriend is bringing the dogs so we pick a stop in Strasburg, VA (which was the 7th state we had driving in and the 8th I had been to that day).  At about 6:00 pm, we finally get Miller (and a little friend to that we were delivering back to Michigan - a beagle name Wheatie).  So we load them up and off we got... Garmen's arrival time at home, 1:30 am.  For real?!  Yes, for real.  Luckily for us the dogs traveled great and towards the last few hours I had gotten my tenth wind and was now keeping Ryan awake who after having gotten up at 5:30 and been driving for over 12 hours was starting to fade.  But he's a trooper and drove the whole time.  I sang songs, made up games, whatever it took.

After dropping the beagle off to the new owner at Cabella's at 1:10 am, we were finally almost home.  We hopped on 23 with the plan of getting off on the Willis exit.  But alas the was closed so up to US12 we went.  We pulled in the driveway at 1:45 am.  And the world's longest day was officially over and we had a new puppy, Miller.