What a long night! Our travels actually began late on Sunday, May 28. It was recital weekend and the performance wasn't over until around 10 PM. Fortunately, we packed up the van earlier in the day and were ready to go post recital. After a long week of recital AND trip preparation, John and I were tired and just wanted to fuel up with some coffee for the 3 hour road trip to mom and dad's in Gurnee. Do you know how hard it is to find an open coffee house in the Champaign-Urbana area after 10 PM? Ask John. He can tell you what a joy it was. After driving to two different go to spots, we finally settled for McDonald's coffee (which by the way is undrinkably hot for about 5 minutes) and headed to Gurnee. With three hours of sleep and last minute paring down of luggage, we were off to O'Hare the next day to our first stop-Minneapolis. Traveling with the Pagapops (aka Pagadragons) is always an adventure or chaos, depending on which one of us you ask. When we init...