Home!

 We are home. After another 30 hour train ride coupled with a four hour car drive, we arrived back in West Lafayette Friday evening. We are exhausted and moving REALLY slowly, but we made it back safely.

Hawkeye Sarah drove an hour and a half to one of our train stops just so she could wave at us for a few minutes. (Only passengers boarding or getting off could get off the train at that stop.) We loved seeing her and waving at her as we sat on the tracks and really appreciated her undertaking that three hour drive just for less than five minutes with us. 

Then we were off again and heading home!

On Saturday Barn Buddy Kelsey and I met for lunch so I could pick up my BreyerFest models. I didn't have time to open any of them and am looking forward to looking at them later today.

I took a very quick nap after lunch and then Craig and I hopped back into the car and headed to western Indiana. Teacher Daughter Lisa's friend, Frank, was in town and so we met them at The Beef House for dinner Saturday night.

The Beef House, Covington, Indiana

As we drove, we began receiving tornado warnings from back home in West Lafayette. An especially scary alert pinpointed the rotation right over our neighborhood! Beach Son Kyle (who had been unable to go with us) was in our home along with Pepper and we were very concerned about their welfare. (They sheltered in place for about twenty minutes and were fine.)

Just as we were moving, so were the storms and so the tornado warnings kept coming as the storms came along behind us. And right after a new warning went out for the area we were driving through, we spotted these menacing clouds next to us.

Fortunately no funnel touched down on or near us although we did have heavy, heavy rains. (3-4" across the town.)

Craig and I drove home and found that our home had not sustained any damage, Kyle and Pepper were fine, and that despite having had a tremendous amount of rain fall, nothing had flooded. We were very grateful.

What a welcome home from our trip to Utah!

As to what happened to the blog in my absence? Well, I continued to have difficulty accessing it as we traveled. I thought I had fixed those issues, but they returned the next day and I never was able to get through to the draft pages again. I am home now and back on my desktop where I usually work, so there should be regular, daily posts from now on.

Stay 'tooned!