The permanent drive to Chicago part 2

Saturday morning on our trek from Jersey to Chicago we left the luxurious Western PA Microtel Inn and headed toward Eaton/Dayton via Columbus.  If you're a geography wizard and are trying to figure this out - you're correct, neither Columbus nor Dayton are not on the way from New Jersey to Chicago.  But we wanted to drop Griffey off at Katie's parents so he wasn't stressed out by being in the house when the movers came Monday.  We also got the chance to see friends and family on the way.

We entered Columbus shortly after the Buckeye game versus Cal started - so there was a bit of traffic, but not too bad.  We stopped there to see our friends Bryan and Kristen, who were celebrating their son Will's first birthday that Saturday.  It presented some good photo opportunities for us.  Charlie and Bryan were housemates for over 5 years between college, grad school and starting off in Columbus, and Kristen and Katie were sorority sisters.

Griffey also was a fan favorite - he had a new friend in Kristen's niece for the whole birthday party!

After Will's birthday party, we drove down to Dayton to see Charlie's sister Abby.  This was Abby's first chance to meet Brayden, and it was our first chance in a long time to eat LaRosa's pizza!  A win-win!

From there, we drove to Eaton and stayed at Katie's parents house.  It was our last night with Griffey for a while, so we were sad to leave him in the morning but at the same time excited to move into our house in Chicago!