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I arrived in Illinois a week ago today. The trip up here was interesting and should have given me a clue as to how the rest of the time spent here was going to be. I'm not sure interesting is the right word, but the visit is still not over and I really wonder what's around the corner. We left Texas last Friday around 1pm. The first part of the trip went fairly well and we arrived in Oklohoma at 8pm. There were some bad snow storms heading our way and were supposed to hit around midnight so we decided to pick up our Aunt and keep driving instead of spending the night. We left at 10 to start our trip to Illinois. The roads were not icy so we made good time so we decided to try to stop and get some sleep around 1A.M. Of course, the week before a huge ice storm hit Missouri and all of the hotels in the state were full because thousands of people were without power and hundreds of out of state electricians were also staying in the hotels too.

Finally at 3am we found a room so that we could get a few hours of sleep. We were back on the road by 8am that next morning. Needless to say, we didn't get much sleep, but luckly we didn't have to drive all night. The first few days we were here we basically spent time with the family and hung out. All was good. Then Tuesday rolled around. This was the day of my mom's sugery. We arrived at the hospital a few minutes before she went in to see her. She looked good and seemed to be in good spirits. The sugery was going to be in two parts.

Opps, I've got to go...I will finish this at a later time.