Illinois, and the trauma involved

It all started one Tuesday night almost two weeks ago...Justin had come over and was dreading the thought of the solo cross country drive he was about to embark on. I managed to talk Danny into going with him by pointing out that if they left after lab on Wednesday he would only miss one class, and that I could fly out and meet them in Illinois after work on Friday and we could see his folks and Sara and Jack and Kami and PJ. Let's just say that it didn't exactly take a lot of arm twisting to get him to agree.
The plan was that Justin would pick Danny up from school at about 3:15 and they would be on their merry way. What actually happened was we got out of class around 3:30, and since Justin wasn't quite set yet, we grabbed some subway, picked up toiletries from walmart that dan had forgotten to pack, and then we headed to Justin's parents house to meet up with him. By the time the CRV was loaded onto the trailer, and we packed up the boys' snackies and had a prayer and said good-bye it was almost 5pm. Dan was super excited to get started during rush hour.
That night and the next day and night I was kind of a mess. Luckily I was working crazy hours then sleeping all day til class time.Despite that fact I was missing Danny like crazy! We really haven't spent a lot of time apart. Once I went to Grandma's with Dad and Suzanne for the day and came home the next morning, but other than that, we've always been together. I have no idea how Sara kept from losing her mind during the two weeks that she and Justin were in separate states.
They made it into Illinois on Friday afternoon, just a couple of hours before I did. But they were in Carbondale, and everyone else was in Godfrey. We ended up not being able to unload everything into the rental house as planned, so the new plan was to get a storage facility...but they were all closed. So the guys left the rental truck at the house and drove the crv up to godfrey. I was so so so very happy to finally be able to see Danny after our long, long separation. Saturday we had planned to go to six flags, but we didn't get out early enough, so we just hung out all together and went swimming and barbecued. All in all, it was really fun just to see everyone again.
Poor Danny was suffering with horrible back pain. I don't know why, but he has had these knots in his back that are huge and painful since before we were married. For the most part he's used to it, but the long car drive and sleeping in the truck one night exacerbated it and he was in substantial pain, so Kami gave him 2 vicodin and tried to break the knots out of his back. Unfortunately it didn't end up helping him too much, but we did find out that Dan has a very...interesting reaction to narcotics. But since this post is already running on really long, I'll save that part of the story for later.