Day 22: High Flyer

Luckily the flu only lasted 4 days for each of the girls. Karis woke up this morning without a fever so she was able to go on Kim & Dana's Great Adventure to Kentucky. Dana needed to go to KY to get her WIC formula for the baby and we figured it would be a 2-3 hour trek right up through NC, cross a little bit of TN and VA, then into Harlan, Kentucky. Well, not exactly. It turned out to be a real adventure! We stopped in Johnson City at the mall for lunch, where Karis got to do the Mall Jump, which she's wanted to do every time she's ever seen one. Once we left Johnson City though, all the roads we took were up the mountain, down the mountain, then back up the mountain. You get the picture. Sometimes we went miles without seeing any houses. We got to Harlan, but then we had to go to Middlesboro because the grocery store in Harlan wasn't set up to handle the EBT card. We had to find another way back to SC because I was determined NOT to go back the way we came. We went down 25E to I-81, which turned out to be so much easier I wondered why I hadn't chosen that route to begin with. We finally got home after 11 p.m. Poor Karis was just recovering from the flu and I know she was really tired but she barely complained at all. She slept most of the time and was a real trouper!