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June 30, 2007
Traveling with a baby
Number of hours for full roundtrip, estimated by google, 20; actual: 30
Number of hours Ella was fussy during full roundtrip: 1.5
Time spent driving
new car
before trip, in minutes: 60
Time spent by Ella in new car seat before trip, in minutes: 20
Level
of anxiety about new car and seat before trip: Orange
Level of anxiety about Ella's first long car trip: Red
Number of hours we were late departing: 3
Number of relatives at the reunion offering to take Ella home: 2
Time on spying our car pulling up before Ella's grandmother rolled up her sleeves to better get her hands on baby, in seconds: 8
Time spent listening to family updates before Ella fell asleep, in minutes: 4
Number of shopkeepers in Madison offering to take Ella home and "give her back when she's a teenager": 1
New toys
purchased for Ella: 1
Percent of strangers who saw Ella and beamed at her (estimate): 98
Number of restaurant high chairs Ella has now sat in: 6 (previously: 0)
Percent of additional rest stops we stopped at: 100
Change in time spent at rest areas per rest stop, in minutes: 20
Percent of interstates traveled with construction: 100
Time with white-knuckles in Chicago traffic on Sunday night, in hours: 2
Time spent sitting still in interstate traffic for no discernable reason, in minutes: 15
On arriving home, percent certainty we have one of the BEST BABIES EVER: 100
Next:
Reunion, and visiting Kira (and Julie and Paul)
Previous:
Saga of the new car (ending: hooray for Valley Honda)