Travellers Nightmare

Everyone looks forward to spending time with the family during the holidays.  People will travel for hours enduring major traffic jams and horrendous weather just to be with the ones they love.  Brett and I used to be these people until this past weekend when we went home for Thanksgiving.  Needless to say, I don’t think either of our families will ever see us for a holiday unless they come to visit us.

It all started on Wednesday.  We decided to start out in the early afternoon.  I left our house at 12:15pm and it took me a little over an hour to get to Ft. Belvoir (which is only 20 miles away).  That should have been the first clue.  We stopped for lunch and got on the road about 2pm.  After sitting in stand still traffic in Maryland for 4 hours and a snow storm in Pennsylvania we pulled into his parents’ driveway at 10pm.  We didn’t get to stop for food so after we dropped off Pepper we went to grab a bite around 11pm.  At this point Brett tells me he was having flashbacks from Iraq.  Don’t you think he should have mentioned that a little earlier in the day?

The time at home was great.  We got a lot of things done for the wedding and spent time with both of our families.  Brett got to meet part of the Milwaukee family since Helen was in with the kids.

Then we started home and it was like Wednesday all over again.  This time we left at 1:30pm from my Grandma’s house which is an hour closer and we still didn’t get home until 10:30pm.  I can see it taking us a little long since we had a UHaul attached to us full of furniture but it shouldn’t have taken 9 hours especially when we were an hour closer to begin with.  At one point it took us 2 hours to go 20 miles.  That is ridiculous!!

As of right now, Brett and I will be spending Christmas in Virginia – just him, me and the dog!!