It was not a long drive to Bloomington, but it did rain the entire time. Once we arrived, we had a couple hours to kill before we met up with Thomas, so we did some shopping at Home Depot and then relaxed. We bought an indoor-safe propane heater. It worked very nicely, and we were glad to have it. (We later learned they had had so much snow that morning that Thomas's scho0l had started 2 hours late. But by the time we got there, most of it had melted.)