Saturday, October 21, 2006
9:59 p.m.
Hey Everyone!
Whew, I’m finally caught up!! Sorry I haven’t posted. It’s been kinda hectic.
We arrived at the coal mine early today, we decided to take the tour today since we missed it yesterday. It was really interesting. We took a cart 300 ft. down into the mine. We couldn’t go any further down because it had flooded in the 1900’s after it was closed. Here’s some facts:
• If you were a boy, you started working in the mine as young as five years old. You got paid 6 cents and hour.
• If a man was injured in the mine, the workers took him outside, carried him to his house, opened the door and laid him on the kitchen table. If he died, they dropped him on the front doorstep. That was the health benefit.
• If the husband died, the boss of the mine arrived at the house the next day to remind the widow that the mine owned the house and that she needed to find a new home withing three days. If she wasn’t moved by day four she would be thrown out with her belongings unless she had a child that could work in the mine.
• The most you got paid for working was $2.50 a day. You had to supply your own lanterns, dynamite, carts, picks and shovels. The company only provided the mine to work in. You provided everything else.
Harsh huh? It was interesting to go through the mine even though it was cold. I mean freezing cold! Oh, and my grandma didn’t go, she doesn’t like mines, she went shopping.
We picked up my grandmother and headed home. We have about and hour to go.
See ya’ll Tuesday,
Morgan
Monday, October 23, 2006
Happy Birthday to ME!!
Friday, 20, October, 2006
Birthday time!!!
Salut!!!
Hey, guess what today is!! Yep, I turn 15! Yea for me!
It’s really weird having your birthday in an RV. I was woken up with the traditional breakfast in bed, which consisted of a donut, two mini muffins, a waffle from the hotel my grandma stayed in last night, and string cheese. Guess who put the string cheese in? Yea, Katty. Anyway, I ate and opened presents and then we headed to the Harry Houdini museum. Unfortunatley, it was closed. So, we went with plan B, the Steam Locomotive National park.
The National park was devoted solely to restoring steam locomotives. They had a huge museum, about how the train works, who works on the train, the history of the locomotives, and everything you can imagine about locomotives. It was huge. We actually got to go on a restored steam engine train too. It was really cool. My dad could of stayed there for a couple more days, he was fascinated. What is it with guys and trains? But WE were all ready to go and the majority rules. It was really awesome though.
While we were at the museum we heard about this coal mine about 10 minutes away. The mine itself was closed but they took you on tours 300 feet into the mine and showed you around. We arrived and geuss what. Bingo, it was closed. The park ranger and SLNP told us the wrong time. We were really disappointed but what I saw next made my day. In the park where the mine was they had this GORGEOUS waterfall! Yea, there was this beautiful red bridge with a little creek with tons of little waterfalls passing under it. The leaves where changing and it looked absoulutely perfect. I took like 20 pictures. It was beautiful.
We found a hotel in Scranton for my grandma and hung out around the pool for a couple hours and ordered pizza. Then we headed to her room and bought a movie off the TV – Superman Returns. It was really really good. But don’t watch it until you’ve seen the first two original.
My parents also surprised me with a delicious b-day cake. It was 100% chocolate. They bought it earlier when they went to find fresh water for the RV. It had chocolate icing, syrup, candies on top, chocolate chips, chocolate everything! It was magnificent.
See ya’ll Tuesday,
Morgan
Birthday time!!!
Salut!!!
Hey, guess what today is!! Yep, I turn 15! Yea for me!
It’s really weird having your birthday in an RV. I was woken up with the traditional breakfast in bed, which consisted of a donut, two mini muffins, a waffle from the hotel my grandma stayed in last night, and string cheese. Guess who put the string cheese in? Yea, Katty. Anyway, I ate and opened presents and then we headed to the Harry Houdini museum. Unfortunatley, it was closed. So, we went with plan B, the Steam Locomotive National park.
The National park was devoted solely to restoring steam locomotives. They had a huge museum, about how the train works, who works on the train, the history of the locomotives, and everything you can imagine about locomotives. It was huge. We actually got to go on a restored steam engine train too. It was really cool. My dad could of stayed there for a couple more days, he was fascinated. What is it with guys and trains? But WE were all ready to go and the majority rules. It was really awesome though.
While we were at the museum we heard about this coal mine about 10 minutes away. The mine itself was closed but they took you on tours 300 feet into the mine and showed you around. We arrived and geuss what. Bingo, it was closed. The park ranger and SLNP told us the wrong time. We were really disappointed but what I saw next made my day. In the park where the mine was they had this GORGEOUS waterfall! Yea, there was this beautiful red bridge with a little creek with tons of little waterfalls passing under it. The leaves where changing and it looked absoulutely perfect. I took like 20 pictures. It was beautiful.
We found a hotel in Scranton for my grandma and hung out around the pool for a couple hours and ordered pizza. Then we headed to her room and bought a movie off the TV – Superman Returns. It was really really good. But don’t watch it until you’ve seen the first two original.
My parents also surprised me with a delicious b-day cake. It was 100% chocolate. They bought it earlier when they went to find fresh water for the RV. It had chocolate icing, syrup, candies on top, chocolate chips, chocolate everything! It was magnificent.
See ya’ll Tuesday,
Morgan
I'm in Prison
Thursday, 19, October, 2006
No time.
Bonjour,
Today we had to leave the hotel. I hate having to leave hotels. Here are my reasons:
1. We have to pack up all the clothes and junk that we hauled in.
2. No more waffles with strawberry syrup, confectioner’s sugar, and whipped cream.
3. No more highspeed Internet service.
4. No more workout room and pool.
5. No more free candy in the hotel rooms.
6. No more long, hot showers without you family banging on the door saying that you’re going to pay for the water bills.
7. No more fluffy pillows.
8. No more cable TV, which means I have to say goodbye to TV land .
9. No more maid cleaning your room.
I’m so deprived aren’t I ? I don’t know how I’ll survive. Note: This is supposed to be immensely dramatic.
We packed up and checked out of the hotel, after one last swim in the pool and one last show on TV land. Then we headed to Newgate Prison. It’s an old abandone prison and copper mine. Pretty much a labor camp. It’s from the 17 and early 1800’s. It was pretty interesting. The convicts had easy ways of escaping because of the shafts in the mine and other things. The first convict of the prison escaped only eighteen days after his arrival. One time ALL the convicts escaped. That would have been embaressing if you were a guard.Another convict had escaped all the prisons in Conneticut and the was then placed in Newgate. He wrote to the government asking to be executed instead of having to work considering “that I started my life of crime to prevent working.” He escaped Newgate three times.
The scenery was beautiful at the prison. They were on a hill and it overlooked miles and miles of woods, which had changed into gold, orange, and red leaves. The ruins of the buildings were really neat and across the street there was this field of green grass with the hay stacks rolled into the balls. You know what I’m talking about. Around the field there was white birches and mountains of changing trees. It was beautiful.
We headed off to meet my dad at the rental car return building and headed to Scranton, Pennsyvania.
Bye Bye,
Morgan
P.S. Tomorrow’s my birthday!!
No time.
Bonjour,
Today we had to leave the hotel. I hate having to leave hotels. Here are my reasons:
1. We have to pack up all the clothes and junk that we hauled in.
2. No more waffles with strawberry syrup, confectioner’s sugar, and whipped cream.
3. No more highspeed Internet service.
4. No more workout room and pool.
5. No more free candy in the hotel rooms.
6. No more long, hot showers without you family banging on the door saying that you’re going to pay for the water bills.
7. No more fluffy pillows.
8. No more cable TV, which means I have to say goodbye to TV land .
9. No more maid cleaning your room.
I’m so deprived aren’t I ? I don’t know how I’ll survive. Note: This is supposed to be immensely dramatic.
We packed up and checked out of the hotel, after one last swim in the pool and one last show on TV land. Then we headed to Newgate Prison. It’s an old abandone prison and copper mine. Pretty much a labor camp. It’s from the 17 and early 1800’s. It was pretty interesting. The convicts had easy ways of escaping because of the shafts in the mine and other things. The first convict of the prison escaped only eighteen days after his arrival. One time ALL the convicts escaped. That would have been embaressing if you were a guard.Another convict had escaped all the prisons in Conneticut and the was then placed in Newgate. He wrote to the government asking to be executed instead of having to work considering “that I started my life of crime to prevent working.” He escaped Newgate three times.
The scenery was beautiful at the prison. They were on a hill and it overlooked miles and miles of woods, which had changed into gold, orange, and red leaves. The ruins of the buildings were really neat and across the street there was this field of green grass with the hay stacks rolled into the balls. You know what I’m talking about. Around the field there was white birches and mountains of changing trees. It was beautiful.
We headed off to meet my dad at the rental car return building and headed to Scranton, Pennsyvania.
Bye Bye,
Morgan
P.S. Tomorrow’s my birthday!!
Magic Wings
Wednesday, 15, October, 2006
No Time,
Yo Ya’ll!
We went to an awesome place today. It was called the “Magic Wings”, a.k.a the Butterfly Gardens. It was flippin sweet.
It was a inside garden (duh) sorta like the Botanical Gardens in Fort Wayne, but it was smaller. It had numerous plants that attracted butterflies and made the butterflies feel at home instead of living in a big glass structurel. There were around 50 different species of butterflies. I’ve never seen so many. Some had transparent wings, some had every color possible on their wings, and some blended in to there surroundings. It was amazing.
The butterflies had adapted to being around people. I had seven land on me. My grandma had one land on her hair and just sit there, while one lady had this ginourmous, beautiful blue butterfly land on her forehead and just sat there. She thought it was funny at first but after it reclined there for about a half an hour she was kinda annoyed. You weren’t aloud to touch the insects so she couldn’t shoo it of either. Finally, an employee helped her get the cute thing off. It was hilarious.
After we hung out at the gardens for a couple of hours, we grabbed a lunch and headed to a town called – well I don’t remember what it was called, but it started with an A. Does that help? Didn’t thunk so. Hehe, that’s a new word, “Thunk”, it’s like “think” but with a “U” instead of an “I”. Anyway, it was a town of college students, and where there are college students there are bookstores. This town had seven bookstores and two clothing stores. Weird. Just plain weird. We stopped at this used bookstore and browsed through the crammed shelves. We bought two books and my grandma bought one because was about to finish the one she was reading.
It was cookout night at the hotel and my dad’s friend, Mr. Frost, joined us for dinner. It was hamburgers and hotdogs. They were good but the funny thing was they had this big bowl of salad. Well, you couldn’t even call it salad. It was a bunch of lettuce with a few baby carrots at the bottom. It was pretty pathetic. Lol.
After we ate we swung by the pool to hang out. I did my dryland workout. I did everything I did Tuesday except the treadmill broke on me while I was about to run. So I only got to run a half a mile. I was SO disappointed. Not.
See ya’ll soon!
Morgan
No Time,
Yo Ya’ll!
We went to an awesome place today. It was called the “Magic Wings”, a.k.a the Butterfly Gardens. It was flippin sweet.
It was a inside garden (duh) sorta like the Botanical Gardens in Fort Wayne, but it was smaller. It had numerous plants that attracted butterflies and made the butterflies feel at home instead of living in a big glass structurel. There were around 50 different species of butterflies. I’ve never seen so many. Some had transparent wings, some had every color possible on their wings, and some blended in to there surroundings. It was amazing.
The butterflies had adapted to being around people. I had seven land on me. My grandma had one land on her hair and just sit there, while one lady had this ginourmous, beautiful blue butterfly land on her forehead and just sat there. She thought it was funny at first but after it reclined there for about a half an hour she was kinda annoyed. You weren’t aloud to touch the insects so she couldn’t shoo it of either. Finally, an employee helped her get the cute thing off. It was hilarious.
After we hung out at the gardens for a couple of hours, we grabbed a lunch and headed to a town called – well I don’t remember what it was called, but it started with an A. Does that help? Didn’t thunk so. Hehe, that’s a new word, “Thunk”, it’s like “think” but with a “U” instead of an “I”. Anyway, it was a town of college students, and where there are college students there are bookstores. This town had seven bookstores and two clothing stores. Weird. Just plain weird. We stopped at this used bookstore and browsed through the crammed shelves. We bought two books and my grandma bought one because was about to finish the one she was reading.
It was cookout night at the hotel and my dad’s friend, Mr. Frost, joined us for dinner. It was hamburgers and hotdogs. They were good but the funny thing was they had this big bowl of salad. Well, you couldn’t even call it salad. It was a bunch of lettuce with a few baby carrots at the bottom. It was pretty pathetic. Lol.
After we ate we swung by the pool to hang out. I did my dryland workout. I did everything I did Tuesday except the treadmill broke on me while I was about to run. So I only got to run a half a mile. I was SO disappointed. Not.
See ya’ll soon!
Morgan
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Ellis Family Adventures
Tuesday, 17, October, 2006
No time
Howdy!
We finally got to the hotel around 12:30 last night. I didn't get to bet till after 1. Ugh
This place is pretty cool. It has a pool, not big though, a little bigger than the width of the pool at Crossroads. Its clean though. But there's no way I can do a workout. I take two strokes, turn, pushoff, take a stroke, turn, push off. Well, you get the picture.
The breakfast is nice. We have french toast, eggs, sausages, potatos, oatmeal, cheerios, frosted flakes, raisin bran, waffles with the wafflemaker, fruit, donuts, muffins, toast, yougurt. You name it.
You swim team people will be so proud of me. I did a workout!! I couldn't do it in the pool, I already told you that. So I did tryland in the excersis room. I ran a mile, biked two, and did those ski thingis for a mile. Including 150 cruches. IT was actually fun cause they have a tv and so I watched Green Acres the whole time.
During the time we were fooling around, my grandma was doing laundry. We didn't make her do it. That's her hobby. Yep. I know. She saw the laundry room and started clapping her hands and said whith her voice shaking excitedly, "Oh Morgan, I get to do laundry!" I think theres medication for that.
After we hung around the hotel for the morning, we headed to the Yankee candle company. This place was huge. It was like a maze, whith nicknacks, candles of any scent you could imagine, and food. We were there for about 4-5 hours and didn't even get through half. Well I did because I got lost. But nobody else did.
They also had a section where it showed what it was like to make candles in the 1800's. I got a free beeswax candle because I answered the most questions. YAh for me! See, I am smart.
After we finished shopping we picked up my dad from work. He wasn't very happy considering he'd been waiting 2 hours. We were a little late.
We ate at this mexican restaurant right across the street from the hotel. We had to wait forever but we finally got a table and ordered our food. The bad thing was that they gave us these really good tortillas chips for appetizers. I ate to much. By the time our food arrived I ate about half of my delicous chimichanga and was stuffed. BUt I wasn't done yet. My grandma had apparently told the waitress that it was my birthday on Friday and so they came out and started clapping their hands carrying the most delicous dessert. It was like this apple crisp stuff that had been fried and was put on a hot plate. They then topped it with vinalla ice cream and this apple syrup topping that started bubbling and sizzling once it touched the plate. Katty and Tatum both got desserts free with the kid's meal so Darby was left without the dessert. I let her dig into mine. I was stuffed and I needed help. Trust me, she helped alot. Darby ate at leasat half of it and dropped the food twice on my hand. One was from her mouth too. Yuck.
See ya'll later,
Morgan
P.S. I can check my email at the hotel during the day because they have a computer so feel free to email.
No time
Howdy!
We finally got to the hotel around 12:30 last night. I didn't get to bet till after 1. Ugh
This place is pretty cool. It has a pool, not big though, a little bigger than the width of the pool at Crossroads. Its clean though. But there's no way I can do a workout. I take two strokes, turn, pushoff, take a stroke, turn, push off. Well, you get the picture.
The breakfast is nice. We have french toast, eggs, sausages, potatos, oatmeal, cheerios, frosted flakes, raisin bran, waffles with the wafflemaker, fruit, donuts, muffins, toast, yougurt. You name it.
You swim team people will be so proud of me. I did a workout!! I couldn't do it in the pool, I already told you that. So I did tryland in the excersis room. I ran a mile, biked two, and did those ski thingis for a mile. Including 150 cruches. IT was actually fun cause they have a tv and so I watched Green Acres the whole time.
During the time we were fooling around, my grandma was doing laundry. We didn't make her do it. That's her hobby. Yep. I know. She saw the laundry room and started clapping her hands and said whith her voice shaking excitedly, "Oh Morgan, I get to do laundry!" I think theres medication for that.
After we hung around the hotel for the morning, we headed to the Yankee candle company. This place was huge. It was like a maze, whith nicknacks, candles of any scent you could imagine, and food. We were there for about 4-5 hours and didn't even get through half. Well I did because I got lost. But nobody else did.
They also had a section where it showed what it was like to make candles in the 1800's. I got a free beeswax candle because I answered the most questions. YAh for me! See, I am smart.
After we finished shopping we picked up my dad from work. He wasn't very happy considering he'd been waiting 2 hours. We were a little late.
We ate at this mexican restaurant right across the street from the hotel. We had to wait forever but we finally got a table and ordered our food. The bad thing was that they gave us these really good tortillas chips for appetizers. I ate to much. By the time our food arrived I ate about half of my delicous chimichanga and was stuffed. BUt I wasn't done yet. My grandma had apparently told the waitress that it was my birthday on Friday and so they came out and started clapping their hands carrying the most delicous dessert. It was like this apple crisp stuff that had been fried and was put on a hot plate. They then topped it with vinalla ice cream and this apple syrup topping that started bubbling and sizzling once it touched the plate. Katty and Tatum both got desserts free with the kid's meal so Darby was left without the dessert. I let her dig into mine. I was stuffed and I needed help. Trust me, she helped alot. Darby ate at leasat half of it and dropped the food twice on my hand. One was from her mouth too. Yuck.
See ya'll later,
Morgan
P.S. I can check my email at the hotel during the day because they have a computer so feel free to email.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Herhsey and Leprechauns
Monday, October 16, 2006
6:29 p.m.
First stop- Niagara Falls. Wow that place is beautiful. We were on the Canadian side, and I have to say, those people got the better view. Us Americans don’t have a full view of one of the falls.
The falls were amazing. I can’t even describe it. I’ve seen pictures but they don’t come close to the real thing. We just watched them. Watched the seagulls, watched the boats with people in ponchos travel on the river below, watched the water. The water just kept gushing, and going, and falling, and gushing, and going, and falling. I actually saw the end of the rainbow. It was right below me by the falls. There was no pot of gold or any leprechuns. My hopes where crushed.lol.
Niagara Falls is mainly a tourist trap. They had all these stupid haunted houses, little stupid museums that were only gift shops, and all these other stupid things.
It was called “Hollywood Planet.” See, I told you it was stupid. But, they had a Hershey’s store!! I was seriously in heaven. They had t-shirts, hat’s sweatshirts, fudge samples, candy bars, candy, aprons, hot pad’s, stuffed animals, candy boxes, and best of all……… 5 lb Hershey chocolate bars!!!!!!!!!! They were about a little bigger than a kickboard, all you swim people know what I’m talking about. For those who don’t, stretch your arms as wide as they can go. Farther! C’mon, it was bigger than that!
Yea, I was in heaven. I told you that right? My grandma bought all of us ½ lb. Chocolate bars which are big enough. But for those who are looking for a birthday present for me…………. Lol.
We grabbed some food and browsed around the shops a tiny bit more. By then we kinda had to get going. We had seven hours of driving to get to Massachusetts by tonight. We walked back to the RV, stopping to watch the water a million last times. Amazing.
We had to go through customs again, and let me tell you, it’s easier to get into Canada that it is to get into the U.S. The security dude glanced around our RV, took our ID’s, asked questions about Katty because she wasn’t born in the U.S., and asked us lot’s more questions. It took a little longer but thankfully they didn’t search the RV. We would have been so totally arrested if they had found those kitchen knives’s………lol.
We are now on our way to our hotel, which will be much better than last nights. Heck, it can’t get worse. It’s a Residence Inn and we’ll be there a couple of days so it better be good.
See ya’ll in a couple days!
Morgan
6:29 p.m.
First stop- Niagara Falls. Wow that place is beautiful. We were on the Canadian side, and I have to say, those people got the better view. Us Americans don’t have a full view of one of the falls.
The falls were amazing. I can’t even describe it. I’ve seen pictures but they don’t come close to the real thing. We just watched them. Watched the seagulls, watched the boats with people in ponchos travel on the river below, watched the water. The water just kept gushing, and going, and falling, and gushing, and going, and falling. I actually saw the end of the rainbow. It was right below me by the falls. There was no pot of gold or any leprechuns. My hopes where crushed.lol.
Niagara Falls is mainly a tourist trap. They had all these stupid haunted houses, little stupid museums that were only gift shops, and all these other stupid things.
It was called “Hollywood Planet.” See, I told you it was stupid. But, they had a Hershey’s store!! I was seriously in heaven. They had t-shirts, hat’s sweatshirts, fudge samples, candy bars, candy, aprons, hot pad’s, stuffed animals, candy boxes, and best of all……… 5 lb Hershey chocolate bars!!!!!!!!!! They were about a little bigger than a kickboard, all you swim people know what I’m talking about. For those who don’t, stretch your arms as wide as they can go. Farther! C’mon, it was bigger than that!
Yea, I was in heaven. I told you that right? My grandma bought all of us ½ lb. Chocolate bars which are big enough. But for those who are looking for a birthday present for me…………. Lol.
We grabbed some food and browsed around the shops a tiny bit more. By then we kinda had to get going. We had seven hours of driving to get to Massachusetts by tonight. We walked back to the RV, stopping to watch the water a million last times. Amazing.
We had to go through customs again, and let me tell you, it’s easier to get into Canada that it is to get into the U.S. The security dude glanced around our RV, took our ID’s, asked questions about Katty because she wasn’t born in the U.S., and asked us lot’s more questions. It took a little longer but thankfully they didn’t search the RV. We would have been so totally arrested if they had found those kitchen knives’s………lol.
We are now on our way to our hotel, which will be much better than last nights. Heck, it can’t get worse. It’s a Residence Inn and we’ll be there a couple of days so it better be good.
See ya’ll in a couple days!
Morgan
Security and Bed bugs
Sunday, 15, October, 2006
No time
Hey Ya’ll!
Wow, it’s so awesome to be blogging again! We left about 3:00 pm today. Our first stop is Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. We obviously had to go through customs, and the security guard seemed a little baffled by us. We pulled up in our RV and the security dude stuck his head out of the window and began to question my dad:
“How many persons are in this vehicle?”
“Seven, me, my wife, my mother, and my four girls,” my dad replied.
The security man’s eyes widened in surprise, “Sir do you own this vehicle?”
My dad said that he did.
“ Are you carrying any firearms or weapons onboard?”
Of course not, unless you count kitchen knife’s as a weapon. He let us pass, which was a surprise, because usually they question you for hours on end. As I told you before, he was baffled.
Since my grandmother was with us, we had to find a hotel because there was not enough room in the RV. And we didn’t ignore the fact that she wakes up flippin early and would wake up the rest of the crew onboard.
Do you know that Canada has like absolutely NO hotels? Yea, we searched for hours. We did find one, but it was $150 per night! Yea right. We searched for some more but all we found was these lousy motels that had the doors falling off of the rooms. Guess where we ended up staying? Yep, you guessed it. It was this crummy motel that had a gas station and truck stop. It was horrible. But it was midnight and there was no way there was going to be anything else around the vicinity.
My grandma checked in and I decided to sleep in the motel with her. It was super noisy out in the parking lot because of the stupid semi’s. Little did I know what I was getting into.
The place was worse than crummy, it smelled as if hundred of people had entered, sweated, and never opened a window. The sheets were like sandpaper, and who knows what kind of bacteria and fungus were in them. Can you tell I’ve been doing biology? Yea, it was the perfect place for those microscopic guys. Dark and damp. Ewe. The bathtub was the cleanest place. It almost looked new. The bathroom walls were a different story. I did a quick glance at the wall and the paint was peeling horribly. It’s been painted cream, pink, green, lime green, turquoise, and was now a pale blue.
I hurriedly ran back out to the RV to grab my sleeping bag and pillow. Sandpaper is not fun to sleep on and I was exhausted. That is, until the lights flipped off and I was lying there thinking. Yes, I can think. I kept having flashbacks of the Little House on the Prairie books when Mr. Ingalls dreamed he was getting a haircut, and woke up to have a mouse gnawing his hair and making a nest. He had a ginourmous bald spot on his head and everybody laughed at him when he went to church the next day. Not cool. Funny, but not cool. Fortunately my hair is still intact, even though I didn’t get to bed till around 1:30 – 2 a.m.
Wish you guys were here (and I bet you’re thinking, yea right. Lol.),
Morgan
No time
Hey Ya’ll!
Wow, it’s so awesome to be blogging again! We left about 3:00 pm today. Our first stop is Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. We obviously had to go through customs, and the security guard seemed a little baffled by us. We pulled up in our RV and the security dude stuck his head out of the window and began to question my dad:
“How many persons are in this vehicle?”
“Seven, me, my wife, my mother, and my four girls,” my dad replied.
The security man’s eyes widened in surprise, “Sir do you own this vehicle?”
My dad said that he did.
“ Are you carrying any firearms or weapons onboard?”
Of course not, unless you count kitchen knife’s as a weapon. He let us pass, which was a surprise, because usually they question you for hours on end. As I told you before, he was baffled.
Since my grandmother was with us, we had to find a hotel because there was not enough room in the RV. And we didn’t ignore the fact that she wakes up flippin early and would wake up the rest of the crew onboard.
Do you know that Canada has like absolutely NO hotels? Yea, we searched for hours. We did find one, but it was $150 per night! Yea right. We searched for some more but all we found was these lousy motels that had the doors falling off of the rooms. Guess where we ended up staying? Yep, you guessed it. It was this crummy motel that had a gas station and truck stop. It was horrible. But it was midnight and there was no way there was going to be anything else around the vicinity.
My grandma checked in and I decided to sleep in the motel with her. It was super noisy out in the parking lot because of the stupid semi’s. Little did I know what I was getting into.
The place was worse than crummy, it smelled as if hundred of people had entered, sweated, and never opened a window. The sheets were like sandpaper, and who knows what kind of bacteria and fungus were in them. Can you tell I’ve been doing biology? Yea, it was the perfect place for those microscopic guys. Dark and damp. Ewe. The bathtub was the cleanest place. It almost looked new. The bathroom walls were a different story. I did a quick glance at the wall and the paint was peeling horribly. It’s been painted cream, pink, green, lime green, turquoise, and was now a pale blue.
I hurriedly ran back out to the RV to grab my sleeping bag and pillow. Sandpaper is not fun to sleep on and I was exhausted. That is, until the lights flipped off and I was lying there thinking. Yes, I can think. I kept having flashbacks of the Little House on the Prairie books when Mr. Ingalls dreamed he was getting a haircut, and woke up to have a mouse gnawing his hair and making a nest. He had a ginourmous bald spot on his head and everybody laughed at him when he went to church the next day. Not cool. Funny, but not cool. Fortunately my hair is still intact, even though I didn’t get to bed till around 1:30 – 2 a.m.
Wish you guys were here (and I bet you’re thinking, yea right. Lol.),
Morgan
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