Driven with success

We drove home successfully, and are now back at the house.  The children are (I hope) asleep, and I am heading in that direction myself shortly. 
With stops it took close to eight hours to get back (we were slowed rather substantially as well by the traffic much of the way): this included looking for a particular fast food joint in an area where there were 11 highway exits without that particular chain.  We finally realised that we could look for the closest such restaurant with the GPS and took a ten minute detour to get there.

The highlight of the day, though, was walking out along the pier at the beach before leaving: well worth the dollar each it cost us for the privilege.  We got to see some fishermen handling live shrimp: I had no idea what they looked like live: not curled up at all, and incredibly agile, jumping five to ten inches in the air.

Yours, naming one of the shrimp "Jehosophat",
N.