Miles 727-1135: Drive to Minneapolis
Hey guys, we’re still alive!!! The elevator didn’t drop us. This morning, Mom and Jackson went on a run down by North-Western where Dad and I did yesterday. While they did that, Dad and I went down to the work-out room. On our way down, we noticed that one of the elevators was shut down and being worked on. Hmm, I wonder why?! While he did weights, I did some dance pointe-prep strengthening exercises, and then we did core together. I was sad to leave Chicago, because it was so big and we didn’t get to see more of it. The drive to Madison, where we had lunch, was fairly uneventful, except for one thing: there was a fire on the runway of Chicago Air that we saw on our way out of the city. We hit two new states for me and Jackson: Wisconsin and Minnesota. We had a really good lunch at a place called Graze, in Madison, Wisconsin, that was right across from the very fancy, neoclassical (fancy vocab from architecture tour yesterday) capital building. I got a grilled cheese with tomato soup and we got cheese curds for an appetizer. They sound disgusting, but they’re basically fried cheese, like mozzarella sticks, and they were served with a delicious buttermilk ranch. At the capital, there was a LGBT Pride ceremony where they raised the flag over the capital building. Apparently, a new democratic governor had convinced the Senate to allow Wisconsin to officially support LGBT. On the way out of town, we drove through the University of Wisconsin. Jackson and I had a few small arguments in the car ride, but they all turned out okay. We got to let out our steam later tonight. When we got to Minneapolis, we were surprised to find that it was much warmer up here than it was in Chicago. Hazelwood Food + Drink was a delicious choice for dinner, where I got chicken pot pie that tied last night’s risotto for Best Meal of the Trip. Back at the hotel, we got in the pool for a little horsing around before bed. We cooled down in the hot tub afterward and then came up to shower, blog (check), and get in bed. BTW, I’ll add the mileage number tomorrow when I can check the car. I miss you guys so much!!
“Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are.”