Over the River & Through the Woods

My mom and I visited my grandmother this past weekend in Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin. Never heard of it, you say? Don't worry, neither had I until my grandma remarried her ex-husband (they were divorced almost 25 years) and moved up there.

I left Friday morning to swing through Chicago-land and pick up my mom. She's not thrilled about highway driving so I continued to be the capitain. It should have taken about 4 hours to get to mom's (I can usually get there faster, but Chicago is construction hell right now), and then another 4 hours to g-ma's. It took us 6 hours, in part because we were a bit lost due to my grandma's fine directions. And, being in Madison, Wisc. at 5 o'clock Friday rush hour SUCKS!

But, Prairie Du Chien is a beautiful place. It sits on the Mississippi River, nestled between high bluffs and shaded valleys. A cool place where only about 5,000 live, but the population about doubles in the summer with campers, boaters and anglers hitting the river.

Needless to say, I'm pretty sick of driving now that I logged 1,000 miles in one weekend. Coming home was a little better and everyone, especially my grandma who was so "tickled" that we came to see her finally.