New Orleans road trip - Day 26 and 27 - Dayton and home!

We had a fabulous meal with Aimee's cousins (3sets of them) on Saturday night and then played some cards. Sunday we shopped Barnes and Noble and the Christmas Tree Shop (one of Aimee's favorite stores) and picked up some Christmas presents.

Then we had lunch with some more of Aimee's cousins (these may have been removed or 2nd or something) at a rib place (something Greg had been hoping for ever since we got into the States)

Dessert was a hit - oreo cookies, dipped in doughnut batter, rolled in chocolate rice crispies, deep fried and served with icing sugar, ice cream and chocolate sauce. They just melted in your mouth.

Monday we were up and on the road while it was still dark and drove 7 hours home to Aimee and Greg's place near Paris. We hit lake effect snow after crossing the bridge in Port Huron/Sarnia but it didn't last long.
It was a great trip. It is nice to travel with your home. A different motel every night never feels like home but the trailer started to. We were surprised by what we found at some of our overnight stops (the military park in Vicksburg, the art gallery in Montgomery) and realized that there are thousands of interesting places anywhere we might stop in the U.S. We all loved New Orleans. There was so much to do there and it had a hybrid U.S./European feel due to its Spanish and Portuguese heritage. We ate a ton of shrimp and it was larger and tasted better than the shrimp we get at home.
I got much more comfortable driving the trailer and getting it hitched and unhitched, though I liked being able to stay in a place for a few nights at a time rather than constantly moving.  We tried to have a balance of time together and time apart and each of us pursuing our own interests.
I have a few days at home now before flying out to Edmonton to see Mike, Aimee, Avery and Maya.