Well we made it home last night some time around 10 – 10:30pm after a very long and stressful car ride. The trip took us between 13 and 13 1/2 hours, even though we were on track to make it in 10 hours. Everything was going fine until we hit Canada. Some how we ended up getting turned around on the 403 and were going east instead of west. I woke up from a nap while Tiffany was driving to find that we were in a bit of a traffic jam and moving kind of slow, so we started to talk and what not, when one of us noticed that we were going east. I knew this had to be wrong and so I pulled out our little travel map thing from AAA and sure enough we were heading in the wrong direction. After getting off the 403 and then getting back on going in the right direction we got to hit traffic going the other way. It turns out that there was something weird going on with the 403/QEW where it didn’t actually tell you a direction, it just gave you names of places. So instead of the sign saying 403 west and give you a city name it just said 403 towards city name. After we figured this out it was still confusing because where we were it looked like we were still going in the wrong direction (based off city names) when we were actually going in the correct direction. Another thing that was odd was that the sign on the road said QEW and 403, so after going through all this and eventually getting to just the 403 West, I can only assume that this is Canada’s way of saying your on the QEW and it will get you to the 403. In any event we made it back to Michigan just fine. Kylie, as usual, was a perfect angel and did not fuss at all. She merely contented herself to play in her seat and nap, only fussing when we were almost home, but that is fine considering she spent the better part of 13 hours in her car seat and it was way past her bed time. We are so lucky to have such a happy and well behaved child.
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