Travel Day

Here's a picture of Kyra's day today... spent in our van, travelling to St. Louis for her spinal surgery. With the one stop we make at the Flying J in Wayland, it takes us 7 hours to get from our door to the door of the Pear Tree - Union Station hotel.

Here's Kyra's list of travel essentials:

• Cool sunglasses.
• Cuddly blankie.
• HPU baseball cap.
• Well-worn "Fiddler on the Roof" program.
• Spare "Fiddler on the Roof" program - just in case.
• Purple hippo.
• iPad loaded with PBS Kids and Amazon Cloud Player apps.
• Smartphone with wi-fi hotspot, so Kyra's iPad can stream PBS Kids videos and play favorite Cloud Player tunes anywhere, anytime.
• Sense of humor.  Actually, both Kyra's dad and I nearly forgot to pack this; thank goodness Kyra brought along enough to share.

As we drove through Wentzville, about 45 minutes from our hotel, Kyra stopped watching her movie and started looking out the window, giggling occasionally.  Her internal GPS had kicked in, and she was letting us  know that we were approaching St. Louis, and would likely see her sister, Christa soon.  I have a feeling it's  probably the last time she'll enter St. Louis giggling for awhile.

Peace.