Traveling with a baby
- Number of hours for full roundtrip, estimated by google, 20; actual: 30
- Number of hours Ella was fussy during full roundtrip: 1.5
- Time spent driving new car before trip, in minutes: 60
- Time spent by Ella in new car seat before trip, in minutes: 20
- Level of anxiety about new car and seat before trip: Orange
- Level of anxiety about Ella's first long car trip: Red
- Number of hours we were late departing: 3
- Number of relatives at the reunion offering to take Ella home: 2
- Time on spying our car pulling up before Ella's grandmother rolled up her sleeves to better get her hands on baby, in seconds: 8
- Time spent listening to family updates before Ella fell asleep, in minutes: 4
- Number of shopkeepers in Madison offering to take Ella home and "give her back when she's a teenager": 1
- New toys purchased for Ella: 1
- Percent of strangers who saw Ella and beamed at her (estimate): 98
- Number of restaurant high chairs Ella has now sat in: 6 (previously: 0)
- Percent of additional rest stops we stopped at: 100
- Change in time spent at rest areas per rest stop, in minutes: 20
- Percent of interstates traveled with construction: 100
- Time with white-knuckles in Chicago traffic on Sunday night, in hours: 2
- Time spent sitting still in interstate traffic for no discernable reason, in minutes: 15
- On arriving home, percent certainty we have one of the BEST BABIES EVER: 100