Terri, glad your DH will divide the trip over 3 days instead of two. We too hope to be on the road by the 28th, this time we will drive over two days spending one night in a hotel. We drove straight through the past several trips but I think we are getting too old to drive 17 hours on the road.
There is a blizzard on the way and so far it looks like we will be in it's path, we don't know how that may impact our Christmas. The timing is terrible, it's supposed to start on Thursday and continue through Friday. I don't know if you are going to be affected by this storm.
Congratulations on your Minnesota Vikings taking the Central Division, they deserved it!
Cheese