Day 14 - Toronto to Lansing, MI

Today we went on leg two out of three of our trip back home; around 300 miles from Toronto to Lansing, MI.

We left the hotel in Toronto around 11am. We stopped twice, once for diapers and once for a large chocolate brownie iced coffee from Tim Horton's.

We continued till around 2pm where we stopped before we crossed the border for lunch; Burger King this time...

This random photo is the place where we hit 2,000 miles in our trip; it is just before Sarnia, in the Canadian side, a few miles before we cross the border with the US.

The crossing was fast and uneventful; many trucks with a long line, but the car/RV lines moved fast without any backups. The US guard asked about our Florida plates and when we told him that the car was a rental and we were from Verona, WI, he asked about the floods in our area. We responded and realized how lucky we have been to have floods and damages to our north, to our west, to our south, to our east, but nothing too bad in our area.

We were all sure happy to be back in the states. Distance was measured once more in miles and not in these "random units of measurement" as Margie was calling kilometers.

We hot Flint and then very soon we were in Lansing. We checked in our hotel close to 5pm and after a short visit to a US Wal-Mart for milk and bread (with reasonable prices, still more expensive than WI, but quite reasonable) we had dinner and visited the pool. Kids have been asking about the pool for a couple of days now. This hotel (the same as the one we stopped on our way to Canada) had the coldest pool of all. Even though we were alone there again, we did not stay longer than 15 minutes - this is how cold it was.

We are all in our room now, kids are watching Mulan 2 and we plan for an early turn in so that we can hit the road early tomorrow morning. God willing we will sleep in our beds tomorrow night.