How is your ride home from day care? Do you have any tricks for keeping LO happy?

People describe day care pickup as the best part of their day. I LOVE the smile LO (1 yo) gives me when I pick her up but driving her home is awful. She's so excited to see me and she can't understand why I would stick her in a car seat and abandon her right away. She screams the whole way home. I know it's worse when I do pick up than when DH does it so I don't think it's just LO being tired & hungry.

For the past two months I've been wearing her home but we switch day care in a couple weeks and it won't be possible then. We just switched to a convertible seat but that didn't change anything.

I haven't seen anyone post about this before. Am I the only one experiencing it?