Misc. Memories

*Kayla changing behind motel curtains.

*The girls’ doing hurdles and the “run and walk” in the motel swimming pools.

*The word of the trip – “stop.” So I started singing everytime after someone said it…. “in the name of love.. before you break my heart. Think it o-o-ver.”

*Traffic. Some scary moments in the big cities. Why do trucks get in front of you to pass another truck and take 10 minutes to do so??

*Our license plate hunt. We found far more than I expected! Coloring off each state as we saw the plate.

*The Old Spaghetti Factory.

*The homeless people and peddlers. Hard for me to get used to getting asked or hit up for money.

*Trying to find somewhere to eat with the Daltons. It was an adventure.

*Trying to find parking spots. And observing a guy hit and run into the back of another car as he was trying to parallel park.

*Kamica’s sweatshirt that she really wanted and we went back to buy.

*Motel 6!!! It scared all of us.

*The electricity going out on us in our motel in Colorado.

*The “A” girls – “” annoying” who kept following us everywhere at Arches National Park.

*Eliseo putting Kamica’s head in the ice machine.

*The mattress “diapers” at Best Western. Are you kidding me?

*The lady with the hammer coming up to fix the washer and just whaling on the thing to get the change to go in.

*Getting my finger in the photos of the St. Louis Arch after I bragged to Eliseo pridefully that I could get a good photo. (So I subsequently had to take more later in the day.)

*The GPS navigation lady. Sometimes she didn’t know what she was doing. And trying to name her.

*Not finding a Mississippi state sign to get a picture of. Whaah!

*Realizing we were an hour behind heading into Kentucky because we switched to “Eastern Time.”

*Not getting to go to the GM Corvette museum because of the change in time.

*Not getting to see my old friend Kelly in Bowling Green, Kentucky because she’d hurt her back badly.

*Walking through St. Louis to find lunch and realizing someone gave us bad directions.

*Kayla getting a gutter ball over the top and other side of the gutter protectors at the Bowling Hall of Fame. And Kamica getting 0’s at least 7 frames in a row.

*Slimy eggs at Continental breakfasts. Yuck.

*Losing our peanut butter and chip bags. Where did they go????

*Circling the block 4 times to figure out where parking was at our motel in Memphis.

*The rooftop pool at the Comfort Inn. Cool.

*All the city names in Kentucky. They all end in “ville” or “burg.”

The city name – “Bucksnort.”

*Kayla’s saying – “no worries!”

*My daughter-in-law calling us around midnight because the electricity had gone out in our neighborhood and she couldn’t get into our house via the garage door opener.

*Narrating to my husband about traffic in Chicago (“okay – car coming in from the right,” “Brake lights,” etc) partly to help him and partly so I wouldn’t gasp and scream all the time.

*The mousse Tarah gave me because I’d asked her about how to take care of my hair in the humidity.

*The mango strawberry freezee at Taco Bell.