The long drive home

The drive back home was uneventful, thankfully.
It took two days of driving, and this time I made an overnight stop at a motel in Alexandria, Minnesota. Thank goodness for audio books. We listened to two audio books on the way out west, and two more on the way back. On the trip westward, we listened to "Marley and Me", and a book called "Don't Know Much About Anything". Then we were entertained on the return trip by "What Really Happened" by Scott Mclellan, and "The Unthinkable" by Amanda Ripley. The Unthinkable was a really good book.
We stopped at Wisconsin Dells to eat at Paul Bunyan's again. While we were there, we decided to be nosy and take a look at that empty Lake Delton. We found it sure was empty, as reported on national news, and posed for a picture with it. You can see the picture above. If you look, you can even see the water ski ramps sitting out there in the mud.
Like I said in a previous entry, the whole lake emptied like a bathtub in 1.5 hours when it flooded and made a new path to a nearby river. Now it's just a big mudpile.

Sasha and my husband did not return home with us. They needed to stay out west for another week or two, then they will fly home. We were nervous about taking a 21 month old on a two day drive across the country anyways.