Road Trip, part one

We left Minnesota around 3:30pm on Friday once I was done with work.  Made it to Spearfish, SD after about 9-10 hours in the car.  Cat monster was in his kitty carrier until about 10:30pm, he lasted 7 hours before he started yowling his head off.  We stopped at a gas station, and let him outside on his leash near some gravel and grass.  Mind you, the cat monster has not pottied the entire trip - I let him out once at a rest area, but some other family was by the pet area with a poodle dog, and they stood around for like, half an hour, so Odin was pretty scared.

Aaron's car is completely covered in bug guts.  You get used to driving around in the cities, where there really aren't too many bugs, and if there were, all the cars in front of you on the freeway would had killed them first.  We did go through a little hail storm that lasted all of a minute or two once we had passed Sioux Falls, which scoured off the first wave of bug guts, but it didn't take long to dity up the windshield again.

We spent the night at Aaron's parent's house, and Odin could smell their female cat, Jasmine, all over the basement.  He was mewing, and slinking around, and hissing at his own shadow for the first hour or so. I was so exhausted, after working 8 hours, then spending 9-10 hours in a car, so I zonked out pretty quick.  We woke up, and couldn't find Odin anywhere.  Searched all over the basement, under everything, in the bathroom, no kitty.  I was a little worried that he'd crawled in a corner to die or something, after such a traumatic day.  But we finally found him underneath the bed, and he was slinking around, scared of any sound that he heard from upstairs.  He hasn't met Jasmine yet, and we think they should wait at least a day before they do meet, to kinda get used to each others' smells.

We just finished breakfast, and are going to wash the car, pick up some coffee, and head to Gillette.

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