Day 5: Leisure

Our last day in Minnesota has come to an end after a day of leisure with the Phippen Family. Ben, Brennan, and I played tennis for a couple of hours, and threw the baseball around for a while after that. Then, a family ping-pong tournament took place, and Brennan avenged his previous loss to his Mom in the semi-finals, and went on to defeat Ben in the finals.

Afterwards, we went out to an excellent dinner at Pier 500 in nearby Hudson, Wisconsin. We finished off the evening by going out for ice cream at Selma's just down the road.

Some of you who have been reading this blog may think we are off to a bit of a slow start on the travel side of things for this road trip, having only 3 games in the 1st 5 days, but things will really start to pick up now as we have 7 games in the next 8 days starting tomorrow in Chicago.

As many of you know, the men's French Open final is tomorrow between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. I am officially going to pick Federer, despite his 1-4 head to head record against Nadal, including 2 clay court losses in the past month and a half. I just don't see Roger losing in the finals of a Grand Slam, especially as he looks to become only the 3rd player in history to win 4 Grand Slam tournaments in a row (Don Budge and Rod Laver). Ben is also going with Federer, so we will see how things play out in the morning. Since we will be in route to the "Windy City," feel free to call our cell phones throughout the match to provide updates.

Special thanks goes out to the Phippen Family for letting us stay at their house here in Lakeland, MN for the last 3 nights. We've had a great time playing all sorts of sports and games, and have really appreciated the delicious meals.

Also, Happy 55th Birthday Dad!!!

Here are the statistical updates:
1-end of day odometer: 18,172
2-miles traveled today: 15
3-miles traveled total: 1,529
4-states traveled in today: Minnesota, Wisconsin