On Friday we drove a seven hour drive down from Michigan, across Ohio to Pennsylvania for Joe to see his family at Christmas. If you don't know, Michigan itself is a rather flat state or at least in the south eastern corner where we live is, and to a point is Ohio. But as a Yorkshire girl I'm use to hills and moors and the closer you got to the Pennsylvanian border, the hills started to appear and the larger they got! Driving around the suburbs of Pittsburgh and it's countryside it felt very much like Scotland at times - curvy roads bordered by rolling steep slopes covered in trees and streams running alongside. It was really picturesque and I'd love to explore the state more. The trip itself was good - Joe has a HUGE family and we only saw a 1/3 of them all but that was intense enough - as an only child with a family that is far from close it got a little much for me but we still had fun [ignoring certain comments about how the husband failed to go home to see family members yet had enough money to come to the UK to visit me as if I was at fault which made me rather upset]. Ignoring that, it was fun and takes nothing away from the state itself.
sounds like you had an (almost) lovely christmas X
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you had fun! How exciting to take a long drive like that haha I love road trips Xx
ReplyDeleteGlad you made it safely!
ReplyDeleteThank you! Yeah it's nice to have that freedom of being able to just get on a freeway and just drive and not have the hassle you do in the UK of having to change roads all the time. It gets a bit dull after a few hours but we had the music cranked up high which helped. Think going to have to bring DVDS to watch for our next trip though, I think this length of time in the car will turn out to be one of our shorter trips!
ReplyDeleteseven hours driving? good thing you had chocolate!
ReplyDeleteMichigan isn't the most interesting state to drive is it! Pennsylvania is beautiful though so it makes up for it! I had the same experience with my in-laws so know how it feels. They'll get over it!
ReplyDeleteI hope they do Laurie x
ReplyDeleteLooks like you had a good time :)
ReplyDeleteI'm also driving to PA in a couple days! But for NYE :)
I'm glad you had an almost awesome Xmas! Christmas isn't Chrismas without some drama in the family. Love your little bear so cute.
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Yeah that is true, our little Ted comes everywhere we go now, he was a present I got the boy when we was apart right when we started dating. He's a bit raggy looking these days but he's a cutie.
ReplyDeleteFamily can be stressful sometimes. Well, at least you had some fun :) and Mr. Ted is adorable.
ReplyDelete♥ laura
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ha, i love the buckled up teddy bear. that's totally something i would do. snacks and chocolate are a must when on a road trip!
ReplyDeletexo TJ
Hehe Mr Ted is a cutie Laura, and road trips are a perfect excuse for purchasing chocolate [especially when your on a healthy eating binge normally lol]!
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