We're at a Holiday Inn in Fairmont, MN. Nice hotel. Wish we'd have arrived earlier to take advantage of all the amenities of this hotel. Tess and Alicia did get in the pool (and baby pool) for about 45 minutes before it closed at 10pm. Donald played a few games in the arcade. There's also a fitness room, sauna, and hot tub spa. We've tossed a load of laundry into the guest laundry machines. That's a great thing to have.

Today was pretty much all driving once we departed Chicago at 12:40pm. It took us a half hour to get out of the city in bumper to bumper traffic. Lots of construction on I-90 there if anyone's interested...

Tomorrow will be a long day. Lots of driving and lots of stopping and sightseeing. We'll be going to Laura Ingalls Wilder sites in both MN and SD. Not sure if I'll get a post in but I'll try.

The temperatures up here are HOT. Chicago had a heat index of only 105. That's down from the 114 it's been recently. Loving the A/C in the minivan at this point!

Today's state line gifts (aka bribes):
Wisconsin: pack of pencils and relatively easy Sudoku book
Minnesota: hard Sudoku book ;o)