Saturday, September 01, 2007
Mushy Arms
Thursday, August 30, 2007
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Fort Mandin was our first stop today. Louis and Clark built it for shelter during the winter of the expedition. This was just a remake of the original fort, the shelter had apparently burned down a year after they lived there. There was nothing particularly fascinating about the fort.
We did learn a lot about the expedition. There were some funny stories. For instance, one of the members of the expedition went hunting and didn’t return. Two other men went to search for him, and couldn’t find him. He was missing for 16 days! He thought he had to “catch up” with the expedition. Finally, after over two weeks of “catching up” he was out of water, food, and ammunition. He sat down by the river, hoping to hitch a ride with a trapping boat. Then the expedition comes floating down the river, they picked him up and they were on their way.
The previous day we had arranged to go canoeing on the Missouri River. We met the lady she gave us our canoes, she was planning to meet us “downriver” at a certain location four hours later. We head out onto the river, then we realized that we didn’t know which way was downriver. It was really hard to tell because the wind was blowing the water one way, and the current was going the opposite way. We eventually figured it out after around 20 minutes. It was not a good start.
We stopped at an island after a while and went swimming. We had brought the dogs with us and Lavern was freezing after she got out of the water. We switched around people, my dad, Darby, Muffin, and Tatum in one boat, and Katty, Lavern, my mom, and me in another.
I found out soon after we started that my mom did not know how to steer. We were going zigzag across the entire river, so I decided to try my hand at steering. It didn’t work. We probably paddled 3 extra miles because we weren’t going in a straight line. My dad eventually had to pull us over and give me a steering lesson. It went better after that.
We finally got to the meeting place 15 minutes late. We were just thankful to be there because we still weren’t positive if we were going upstream or downstream. Over all we had a blast. Our arms were mush.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
P.S. I don’t know what the heck is with you guys! Why don’t you comment? I’m really feeling not missed and not loved over here. ~M~
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Fort Mandin was our first stop today. Louis and Clark built it for shelter during the winter of the expedition. This was just a remake of the original fort, the shelter had apparently burned down a year after they lived there. There was nothing particularly fascinating about the fort.
We did learn a lot about the expedition. There were some funny stories. For instance, one of the members of the expedition went hunting and didn’t return. Two other men went to search for him, and couldn’t find him. He was missing for 16 days! He thought he had to “catch up” with the expedition. Finally, after over two weeks of “catching up” he was out of water, food, and ammunition. He sat down by the river, hoping to hitch a ride with a trapping boat. Then the expedition comes floating down the river, they picked him up and they were on their way.
The previous day we had arranged to go canoeing on the Missouri River. We met the lady she gave us our canoes, she was planning to meet us “downriver” at a certain location four hours later. We head out onto the river, then we realized that we didn’t know which way was downriver. It was really hard to tell because the wind was blowing the water one way, and the current was going the opposite way. We eventually figured it out after around 20 minutes. It was not a good start.
We stopped at an island after a while and went swimming. We had brought the dogs with us and Lavern was freezing after she got out of the water. We switched around people, my dad, Darby, Muffin, and Tatum in one boat, and Katty, Lavern, my mom, and me in another.
I found out soon after we started that my mom did not know how to steer. We were going zigzag across the entire river, so I decided to try my hand at steering. It didn’t work. We probably paddled 3 extra miles because we weren’t going in a straight line. My dad eventually had to pull us over and give me a steering lesson. It went better after that.
We finally got to the meeting place 15 minutes late. We were just thankful to be there because we still weren’t positive if we were going upstream or downstream. Over all we had a blast. Our arms were mush.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
P.S. I don’t know what the heck is with you guys! Why don’t you comment? I’m really feeling not missed and not loved over here. ~M~
Mushy Arms
Thursday, August 30, 2007
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Fort Mandin was our first stop today. Louis and Clark built it for shelter during the winter of the expedition. This was just a remake of the original fort, the shelter had apparently burned down a year after they lived there. There was nothing particularly fascinating about the fort.
We did learn a lot about the expedition. There were some funny stories. For instance, one of the members of the expedition went hunting and didn’t return. Two other men went to search for him, and couldn’t find him. He was missing for 16 days! He thought he had to “catch up” with the expedition. Finally, after over two weeks of “catching up” he was out of water, food, and ammunition. He sat down by the river, hoping to hitch a ride with a trapping boat. Then the expedition comes floating down the river, they picked him up and they were on their way.
The previous day we had arranged to go canoeing on the Missouri River. We met the lady she gave us our canoes, she was planning to meet us “downriver” at a certain location four hours later. We head out onto the river, then we realized that we didn’t know which way was downriver. It was really hard to tell because the wind was blowing the water one way, and the current was going the opposite way. We eventually figured it out after around 20 minutes. It was not a good start.
We stopped at an island after a while and went swimming. We had brought the dogs with us and Lavern was freezing after she got out of the water. We switched around people, my dad, Darby, Muffin, and Tatum in one boat, and Katty, Lavern, my mom, and me in another.
I found out soon after we started that my mom did not know how to steer. We were going zigzag across the entire river, so I decided to try my hand at steering. It didn’t work. We probably paddled 3 extra miles because we weren’t going in a straight line. My dad eventually had to pull us over and give me a steering lesson. It went better after that.
We finally got to the meeting place 15 minutes late. We were just thankful to be there because we still weren’t positive if we were going upstream or downstream. Over all we had a blast. Our arms were mush.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
P.S. I don’t know what the heck is with you guys! Why don’t you comment? I’m really feeling not missed and not loved over here. ~M~
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Fort Mandin was our first stop today. Louis and Clark built it for shelter during the winter of the expedition. This was just a remake of the original fort, the shelter had apparently burned down a year after they lived there. There was nothing particularly fascinating about the fort.
We did learn a lot about the expedition. There were some funny stories. For instance, one of the members of the expedition went hunting and didn’t return. Two other men went to search for him, and couldn’t find him. He was missing for 16 days! He thought he had to “catch up” with the expedition. Finally, after over two weeks of “catching up” he was out of water, food, and ammunition. He sat down by the river, hoping to hitch a ride with a trapping boat. Then the expedition comes floating down the river, they picked him up and they were on their way.
The previous day we had arranged to go canoeing on the Missouri River. We met the lady she gave us our canoes, she was planning to meet us “downriver” at a certain location four hours later. We head out onto the river, then we realized that we didn’t know which way was downriver. It was really hard to tell because the wind was blowing the water one way, and the current was going the opposite way. We eventually figured it out after around 20 minutes. It was not a good start.
We stopped at an island after a while and went swimming. We had brought the dogs with us and Lavern was freezing after she got out of the water. We switched around people, my dad, Darby, Muffin, and Tatum in one boat, and Katty, Lavern, my mom, and me in another.
I found out soon after we started that my mom did not know how to steer. We were going zigzag across the entire river, so I decided to try my hand at steering. It didn’t work. We probably paddled 3 extra miles because we weren’t going in a straight line. My dad eventually had to pull us over and give me a steering lesson. It went better after that.
We finally got to the meeting place 15 minutes late. We were just thankful to be there because we still weren’t positive if we were going upstream or downstream. Over all we had a blast. Our arms were mush.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
P.S. I don’t know what the heck is with you guys! Why don’t you comment? I’m really feeling not missed and not loved over here. ~M~
Ready, Set, FIRE!
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
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We headed to Fort Abraham Lincoln and State Park today. It was quite warm today. Weird. Sometimes you just can’t control the weather, or anything else for that matter.
First off, we took a tour of ruins of an old Mandin Indian villiage. It was occupied in the late 1700’s. Lemme tell ya, the more you learn about Indians the more you come to realize that they were smarter that we are today. They’re ways of governing were brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. They had a little thing called MATRILINEAL. That’s when the women rule! They decide who’s chief, the bloodline was passed through the females, the women owned the house (which they built themselves), and everything else. If the women wanted a divorce, she simply set the husbands possessions outside the house, and “bye bye hubby.”
We also heard this really, well, I guess disturbing is the right choice of word, Indian story. I’ll have to find it online and email it to ya’ll. I don’t remember the details which are so vitally important in the story. I wouldn’t want to alter the tale.
Next we toured General Custers house and Fort Abraham Lincoln. General Custer’s quarters burned down in the middle of winter, so when he built the new quarters his wife “altered” it a bit. Custer seemed like an odd fellow. You either loved him or you hated him according to the tour guide. He went on a hunting trip once and brought home a mountain lion, which they kept as a pet chained up in the cellar for some time. He also used to slide down the stair banister. The first time he slid, he flew off the banister right smack dab into the door. From then on the servants always opened the door so he could sail right out onto the porch.
We lurked around the fort for a while more, and extensively browsed the gift shop. They had old fashioned candy. I couldn’t pass up an opportunity like that, and my mom owed me a couple candy bars for numerous different reasons, so I was good to go.
We ate lunch and headed to the campground. We hung out the rest of the evening playing games: Darby and Tatum decided to go swim in the Missouri River, they were really cold. I didn’t have my suit on so, sadly, I just had to observe.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
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We headed to Fort Abraham Lincoln and State Park today. It was quite warm today. Weird. Sometimes you just can’t control the weather, or anything else for that matter.
First off, we took a tour of ruins of an old Mandin Indian villiage. It was occupied in the late 1700’s. Lemme tell ya, the more you learn about Indians the more you come to realize that they were smarter that we are today. They’re ways of governing were brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. They had a little thing called MATRILINEAL. That’s when the women rule! They decide who’s chief, the bloodline was passed through the females, the women owned the house (which they built themselves), and everything else. If the women wanted a divorce, she simply set the husbands possessions outside the house, and “bye bye hubby.”
We also heard this really, well, I guess disturbing is the right choice of word, Indian story. I’ll have to find it online and email it to ya’ll. I don’t remember the details which are so vitally important in the story. I wouldn’t want to alter the tale.
Next we toured General Custers house and Fort Abraham Lincoln. General Custer’s quarters burned down in the middle of winter, so when he built the new quarters his wife “altered” it a bit. Custer seemed like an odd fellow. You either loved him or you hated him according to the tour guide. He went on a hunting trip once and brought home a mountain lion, which they kept as a pet chained up in the cellar for some time. He also used to slide down the stair banister. The first time he slid, he flew off the banister right smack dab into the door. From then on the servants always opened the door so he could sail right out onto the porch.
We lurked around the fort for a while more, and extensively browsed the gift shop. They had old fashioned candy. I couldn’t pass up an opportunity like that, and my mom owed me a couple candy bars for numerous different reasons, so I was good to go.
We ate lunch and headed to the campground. We hung out the rest of the evening playing games: Darby and Tatum decided to go swim in the Missouri River, they were really cold. I didn’t have my suit on so, sadly, I just had to observe.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
Ready, Set, FIRE!
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
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We headed to Fort Abraham Lincoln and State Park today. It was quite warm today. Weird. Sometimes you just can’t control the weather, or anything else for that matter.
First off, we took a tour of ruins of an old Mandin Indian villiage. It was occupied in the late 1700’s. Lemme tell ya, the more you learn about Indians the more you come to realize that they were smarter that we are today. They’re ways of governing were brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. They had a little thing called MATRILINEAL. That’s when the women rule! They decide who’s chief, the bloodline was passed through the females, the women owned the house (which they built themselves), and everything else. If the women wanted a divorce, she simply set the husbands possessions outside the house, and “bye bye hubby.”
We also heard this really, well, I guess disturbing is the right choice of word, Indian story. I’ll have to find it online and email it to ya’ll. I don’t remember the details which are so vitally important in the story. I wouldn’t want to alter the tale.
Next we toured General Custers house and Fort Abraham Lincoln. General Custer’s quarters burned down in the middle of winter, so when he built the new quarters his wife “altered” it a bit. Custer seemed like an odd fellow. You either loved him or you hated him according to the tour guide. He went on a hunting trip once and brought home a mountain lion, which they kept as a pet chained up in the cellar for some time. He also used to slide down the stair banister. The first time he slid, he flew off the banister right smack dab into the door. From then on the servants always opened the door so he could sail right out onto the porch.
We lurked around the fort for a while more, and extensively browsed the gift shop. They had old fashioned candy. I couldn’t pass up an opportunity like that, and my mom owed me a couple candy bars for numerous different reasons, so I was good to go.
We ate lunch and headed to the campground. We hung out the rest of the evening playing games: Darby and Tatum decided to go swim in the Missouri River, they were really cold. I didn’t have my suit on so, sadly, I just had to observe.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
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We headed to Fort Abraham Lincoln and State Park today. It was quite warm today. Weird. Sometimes you just can’t control the weather, or anything else for that matter.
First off, we took a tour of ruins of an old Mandin Indian villiage. It was occupied in the late 1700’s. Lemme tell ya, the more you learn about Indians the more you come to realize that they were smarter that we are today. They’re ways of governing were brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. They had a little thing called MATRILINEAL. That’s when the women rule! They decide who’s chief, the bloodline was passed through the females, the women owned the house (which they built themselves), and everything else. If the women wanted a divorce, she simply set the husbands possessions outside the house, and “bye bye hubby.”
We also heard this really, well, I guess disturbing is the right choice of word, Indian story. I’ll have to find it online and email it to ya’ll. I don’t remember the details which are so vitally important in the story. I wouldn’t want to alter the tale.
Next we toured General Custers house and Fort Abraham Lincoln. General Custer’s quarters burned down in the middle of winter, so when he built the new quarters his wife “altered” it a bit. Custer seemed like an odd fellow. You either loved him or you hated him according to the tour guide. He went on a hunting trip once and brought home a mountain lion, which they kept as a pet chained up in the cellar for some time. He also used to slide down the stair banister. The first time he slid, he flew off the banister right smack dab into the door. From then on the servants always opened the door so he could sail right out onto the porch.
We lurked around the fort for a while more, and extensively browsed the gift shop. They had old fashioned candy. I couldn’t pass up an opportunity like that, and my mom owed me a couple candy bars for numerous different reasons, so I was good to go.
We ate lunch and headed to the campground. We hung out the rest of the evening playing games: Darby and Tatum decided to go swim in the Missouri River, they were really cold. I didn’t have my suit on so, sadly, I just had to observe.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
What a Bonanza!
Tuesday, August 27, 2007
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It was COLD today! Really quiet surprising. We were in North Dakota now and lemme tell ya, it was not a good first impressions. Donning capris and sweatshirts we headed to our destination: Bonanzaville.
I know, it sounds like a hokey tourist trap. And no, it has nothing to do with the TV show. My first thought when I saw the place was “Oh no, this is gonna be interesting.” And I was right. The place was fascinating!
Bonanzaville(makes you laugh doesn’t it?) represents the time period in which the Bonanza farms boomed big in the U.S. Men bought thousands of acres cheap land from the government and they put it to a wonderful use: they grew food. Ok, I just read the paragraph and I sound like a tour guide. I have been reading way to many historical signs.
Bonanzaville consists of over 50 buildings, which were moved from their original location. It was mainly a little town. In each building they had hundreds and thousands of artifacts from the time period. They had houses, church, school, blacksmith, fire department, jail, post office, general store, dining hall, courthouse and any other building you could imagine.
They also had a gigantic warehouse full of old airplanes. That was cool. But something was even cooler. Another warehouse was full of antique cars! They had a handful of Ford Model T’s, an old Dodge pickup truck (that was flipping cool), and lots of old sports cars. But one of the most wonderfully awesome car there was a bright blue 1958 Thunderbird! It was so awesome! I took like a million pictures of it, so don’t worry, you’ll be seeing it.
It was utterly remarkable all the stuff they had. It boggled your mind. For example, when they moved the drugstore they kept almost every single piece of merchandise that were in the store at the time. They have shelves full of everything you would see in that time period (this was somewhere in the 1880’s by the way).
The place needed some work, they didn’t have very much staff, but you could tell it was a lot of work. Imagine trying to preserve thousands of antiques that are hundreds of years old. Difficult huh? Moreover, the artifacts were in log cabins or old buildings, they weren’t under sealed glass with temperature control.
We stayed in Bonanzaville all day then headed to the Ponderosa for dinner (joking, joking, that would be overkill). We stopped at the store and the Laundromat. We needed food and clean clothes. We then headed to our next stop, which I will reveal to you tomorrow. HAHA! I miss you all a lot!
SMILES!
~Morgan~
P.S. There’s this new thing on the blog site that you can do. It’s called COMMENT. It’s perty easy to figure it out, you just do this thing called TYPING. ~M.~
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It was COLD today! Really quiet surprising. We were in North Dakota now and lemme tell ya, it was not a good first impressions. Donning capris and sweatshirts we headed to our destination: Bonanzaville.
I know, it sounds like a hokey tourist trap. And no, it has nothing to do with the TV show. My first thought when I saw the place was “Oh no, this is gonna be interesting.” And I was right. The place was fascinating!
Bonanzaville(makes you laugh doesn’t it?) represents the time period in which the Bonanza farms boomed big in the U.S. Men bought thousands of acres cheap land from the government and they put it to a wonderful use: they grew food. Ok, I just read the paragraph and I sound like a tour guide. I have been reading way to many historical signs.
Bonanzaville consists of over 50 buildings, which were moved from their original location. It was mainly a little town. In each building they had hundreds and thousands of artifacts from the time period. They had houses, church, school, blacksmith, fire department, jail, post office, general store, dining hall, courthouse and any other building you could imagine.
They also had a gigantic warehouse full of old airplanes. That was cool. But something was even cooler. Another warehouse was full of antique cars! They had a handful of Ford Model T’s, an old Dodge pickup truck (that was flipping cool), and lots of old sports cars. But one of the most wonderfully awesome car there was a bright blue 1958 Thunderbird! It was so awesome! I took like a million pictures of it, so don’t worry, you’ll be seeing it.
It was utterly remarkable all the stuff they had. It boggled your mind. For example, when they moved the drugstore they kept almost every single piece of merchandise that were in the store at the time. They have shelves full of everything you would see in that time period (this was somewhere in the 1880’s by the way).
The place needed some work, they didn’t have very much staff, but you could tell it was a lot of work. Imagine trying to preserve thousands of antiques that are hundreds of years old. Difficult huh? Moreover, the artifacts were in log cabins or old buildings, they weren’t under sealed glass with temperature control.
We stayed in Bonanzaville all day then headed to the Ponderosa for dinner (joking, joking, that would be overkill). We stopped at the store and the Laundromat. We needed food and clean clothes. We then headed to our next stop, which I will reveal to you tomorrow. HAHA! I miss you all a lot!
SMILES!
~Morgan~
P.S. There’s this new thing on the blog site that you can do. It’s called COMMENT. It’s perty easy to figure it out, you just do this thing called TYPING. ~M.~
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Minne HAHAHAHAH!
Monday, August 27, 2007
10:20 Central, 11:20 Eastern
Ok, I’m gonna have to type really fast because I only have 21% battery life left, and we can’t charge it unless the generator is on. Peachy.
We drove to St. Paul/Minneapolis (no idea how to spell that) today. We decided to go to a place called Minnehaha, which means Laughing Water. They have an utterly dazzling waterfall. I think it was 28 feet, but it might have been higher, it was just a mother’s guesstimate.
Minnehaha has 50 miles of bike trails surrounding the park and cities. We decided not to go that far, it would’ve been fun though. We grabbed our bikes and headed out. We stopped at a remake of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s house. We thought it was his actual house, but we were disappointed. Longfellow wrote a famous poem/song about Minnehaha, The Song of Hiawatha. The poem richly describes Minnehaha, but apparently the writer had never even set foot in Minnesota. Weird. We made a few other stops too, the waterfall, which like I said before, it was astounding (of course ya’ll know I love any waterfall).
We also biked to Fort Snelling (nice name huh?), but we didn’t tour it because it was closing and we’re planning to see a couple other forts on the trip. We hung around the beach that was on the Mississippi. Darby, Tatum, and Katty dove in, they were wearing their clothes but didn’t really care. I personally had no desire to get wet, so I stayed on the sand. I know, I’m a party pooper. But every party needs a pooper, so that why they invited me……I’ll stop now.
We now just entered North Dakota and are stopped for the night. We really have no idea what we are doing tomorrow; we’re kinda just winging it. That always makes an interesting vacation.
Ok, I have a 14% battery life left so I better scat. I want enough to blog tomorrow! Miss ya’ll a bunch!
SMILES!
~Morgan~
P.S. I had hiccups for an hour today. That was pleasant lemme tell ya. Lol. ~M.E.
10:20 Central, 11:20 Eastern
Ok, I’m gonna have to type really fast because I only have 21% battery life left, and we can’t charge it unless the generator is on. Peachy.
We drove to St. Paul/Minneapolis (no idea how to spell that) today. We decided to go to a place called Minnehaha, which means Laughing Water. They have an utterly dazzling waterfall. I think it was 28 feet, but it might have been higher, it was just a mother’s guesstimate.
Minnehaha has 50 miles of bike trails surrounding the park and cities. We decided not to go that far, it would’ve been fun though. We grabbed our bikes and headed out. We stopped at a remake of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s house. We thought it was his actual house, but we were disappointed. Longfellow wrote a famous poem/song about Minnehaha, The Song of Hiawatha. The poem richly describes Minnehaha, but apparently the writer had never even set foot in Minnesota. Weird. We made a few other stops too, the waterfall, which like I said before, it was astounding (of course ya’ll know I love any waterfall).
We also biked to Fort Snelling (nice name huh?), but we didn’t tour it because it was closing and we’re planning to see a couple other forts on the trip. We hung around the beach that was on the Mississippi. Darby, Tatum, and Katty dove in, they were wearing their clothes but didn’t really care. I personally had no desire to get wet, so I stayed on the sand. I know, I’m a party pooper. But every party needs a pooper, so that why they invited me……I’ll stop now.
We now just entered North Dakota and are stopped for the night. We really have no idea what we are doing tomorrow; we’re kinda just winging it. That always makes an interesting vacation.
Ok, I have a 14% battery life left so I better scat. I want enough to blog tomorrow! Miss ya’ll a bunch!
SMILES!
~Morgan~
P.S. I had hiccups for an hour today. That was pleasant lemme tell ya. Lol. ~M.E.
Pottery, Shoes, Stoneware, Hiking, Fossils, and Annoying Kids
Sunday, August 26, 2007
10:11 p.m. Central, 11:11 Eastern
Wow, we had a really busy day today. The howling kids and the puppy woke us up at the buttcrack of dawn. The dog quieted down after breakfast and a potty break, but the kids wouldn’t shut the cake trap. I was about to go over and let the parents borrow the Duck Tape. I went back to sleep after a while.
We headed to Red Wing, Minnesota, which wasn’t too far off from the campground. Our first stop was Red Wing Pottery, which just turned out to be a cute little giftstore, with some awesome kitchen ware. They did have this old fashioned candy store connected to it, so we helped ourselves to a pound and a half of hard candy’s, caramels, taffy (I love that stuff), and numerous other sweets. I absolutely adore old fashioned candy.
You’ve probably heard of Red Wing shoes, they make work boots and the like. Guess where we went next? Yeppers, we heard that there was a Red Wing Shoe Museum. It turned out to be quite small. One room, a couple signs and articles, and that was about it. It took us about a half hour.
We grabbed some lunch and headed down to a park next to the Mississippi River. The river was rather lovely at this time of day, and there was an awesome breeze. We hung out at the park until it was time to head to our next stop.
Red Wing Stoneware was awesome. They make pottery, such as jugs, coffee mugs, plates, crocks, beaters, bowls, juicers, and anything else you can imagine. You’ve probably seen one or two of their products. They have their signature color- the cobalt blue, with the clear glaze. We were the only ones that were there, besides another lady, and the owner gave us a tour. They only have about fifteen employees, and the amount of stoneware they make is astounding. The tour was really good.
We headed back to Goodhue County because we read about a place where you could go fossil hunting. It happened to be out in the middle of nowhere, we were lucky to find it. If it wasn’t for another group, a geologist, a lady and her girl, we would have never found it. The fossils were of shells, cephalopods (take a guess Crockett, Becky and V, there in Biology) and other things. Nothing huge, but, according to the geologist, Minnesota was under water half a billion years ago (or during the flood just a couple thousand years ago).
We weren’t done yet. We headed back to Red Wing, where there’s a “famous” Barn Bluff. It’s a 300 foot Bluff (I think that’s how high it is, it seemed higher) and when you climb it, you can see miles of the Mississippi and the town. It was really steep in parts, but we made it up with out any injuries. It was unimaginably beautiful. The wildflowers and prairie grasses covered the bluff. The sun was setting on the river, and the full moon was behind us. You could see for miles. It really gave you a realistic idea of how vast the Mississippi was. As we were going back down the mountain, my mother swore she heard a rattlesnake. Nobody believed her. I was reading a sign about the bluff, and how somebody described it as “indescribably beautiful, and teeming with rattlesnakes”. I showed my mom and she started flipping out. It was quite funny, but kinda disturbing…
Tomorrow shouldn’t be as busy, we head to Minneapolis/ St. Paul. Right now I’m exhausted, so I’m going to bed.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
10:11 p.m. Central, 11:11 Eastern
Wow, we had a really busy day today. The howling kids and the puppy woke us up at the buttcrack of dawn. The dog quieted down after breakfast and a potty break, but the kids wouldn’t shut the cake trap. I was about to go over and let the parents borrow the Duck Tape. I went back to sleep after a while.
We headed to Red Wing, Minnesota, which wasn’t too far off from the campground. Our first stop was Red Wing Pottery, which just turned out to be a cute little giftstore, with some awesome kitchen ware. They did have this old fashioned candy store connected to it, so we helped ourselves to a pound and a half of hard candy’s, caramels, taffy (I love that stuff), and numerous other sweets. I absolutely adore old fashioned candy.
You’ve probably heard of Red Wing shoes, they make work boots and the like. Guess where we went next? Yeppers, we heard that there was a Red Wing Shoe Museum. It turned out to be quite small. One room, a couple signs and articles, and that was about it. It took us about a half hour.
We grabbed some lunch and headed down to a park next to the Mississippi River. The river was rather lovely at this time of day, and there was an awesome breeze. We hung out at the park until it was time to head to our next stop.
Red Wing Stoneware was awesome. They make pottery, such as jugs, coffee mugs, plates, crocks, beaters, bowls, juicers, and anything else you can imagine. You’ve probably seen one or two of their products. They have their signature color- the cobalt blue, with the clear glaze. We were the only ones that were there, besides another lady, and the owner gave us a tour. They only have about fifteen employees, and the amount of stoneware they make is astounding. The tour was really good.
We headed back to Goodhue County because we read about a place where you could go fossil hunting. It happened to be out in the middle of nowhere, we were lucky to find it. If it wasn’t for another group, a geologist, a lady and her girl, we would have never found it. The fossils were of shells, cephalopods (take a guess Crockett, Becky and V, there in Biology) and other things. Nothing huge, but, according to the geologist, Minnesota was under water half a billion years ago (or during the flood just a couple thousand years ago).
We weren’t done yet. We headed back to Red Wing, where there’s a “famous” Barn Bluff. It’s a 300 foot Bluff (I think that’s how high it is, it seemed higher) and when you climb it, you can see miles of the Mississippi and the town. It was really steep in parts, but we made it up with out any injuries. It was unimaginably beautiful. The wildflowers and prairie grasses covered the bluff. The sun was setting on the river, and the full moon was behind us. You could see for miles. It really gave you a realistic idea of how vast the Mississippi was. As we were going back down the mountain, my mother swore she heard a rattlesnake. Nobody believed her. I was reading a sign about the bluff, and how somebody described it as “indescribably beautiful, and teeming with rattlesnakes”. I showed my mom and she started flipping out. It was quite funny, but kinda disturbing…
Tomorrow shouldn’t be as busy, we head to Minneapolis/ St. Paul. Right now I’m exhausted, so I’m going to bed.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
K-9 Complications
Saturday, August 25, 2007
10:08 PM Central, 11:08 Eastern
I woke to the sound of a puppy yelping it’s head off. Usually I would sympathize and comfort a puppy, but in this case it was 6:15 a.m. and there was no way I was gonna commiserate for Lavern. Ya’ll know that I’m not the happiest person in the morning. My dad let her out, she did her business, then was put back in the crate. She immediately started yelping. Everyone else was sleeping (or at least trying to) so I got up to play with her.
I set her down on the sleeping bag and reached over the bed to grab my glasses. I sat back on the sleeping bag and it-was-WET! It didn’t instantaneously compute that the dog had peed on my bed, I simply thought something had spilled, then it clicked and I about murdered the dog. She just went! And after all, I had SAT IN IT!
We headed out onto the road, and after a couple hours hit Wisconsin. It’s really quite fascinating how Indiana can be so flat, and Illinois so gloomy and cloudy, and a couple hundred miles away can be sunny and rolling with hills. Goldenrod, wildflowers, and birch trees flooded the side of the road. It was quite gorgeous.
Mid afternoon we arrived in Pickwick. It is a town named after The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. There is a 200 year-old flour mill there, and we took a look. The building is seven floors- two underground and five above. There was also a twenty eight foot waterfall, which was cool. The water was cold, and didn’t look so hygienic either. The water was cleaner than the rivers back home though.
We’re at the campground now; we headed there after the mill. It’s right next to the Mississippi River. We hiked down to the river; it was around half a mile one way. We took Muffin and Lavern, and once we got to the water, Lavern curled up and went to sleep. Poor thing, she’s only about eight inches high, and the stairs and rocks we were stepping down were taller than my knee. She’s a determined little bugger though, on the way back up she was set on keeping up with Muffin, who climbed the rocks with ease. It was a tricky hike back up, really tough. My legs are quite tired and there gonna be like that for a couple weeks.
There are some kids in the next campground that won’t shut up. They’ve been screaming their heads off for hours. Once one starts crying the other one starts, then a baby down a couple sites starts howling. It’s similar too a pack of dogs. I think they’ve finally calmed down.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
10:08 PM Central, 11:08 Eastern
I woke to the sound of a puppy yelping it’s head off. Usually I would sympathize and comfort a puppy, but in this case it was 6:15 a.m. and there was no way I was gonna commiserate for Lavern. Ya’ll know that I’m not the happiest person in the morning. My dad let her out, she did her business, then was put back in the crate. She immediately started yelping. Everyone else was sleeping (or at least trying to) so I got up to play with her.
I set her down on the sleeping bag and reached over the bed to grab my glasses. I sat back on the sleeping bag and it-was-WET! It didn’t instantaneously compute that the dog had peed on my bed, I simply thought something had spilled, then it clicked and I about murdered the dog. She just went! And after all, I had SAT IN IT!
We headed out onto the road, and after a couple hours hit Wisconsin. It’s really quite fascinating how Indiana can be so flat, and Illinois so gloomy and cloudy, and a couple hundred miles away can be sunny and rolling with hills. Goldenrod, wildflowers, and birch trees flooded the side of the road. It was quite gorgeous.
Mid afternoon we arrived in Pickwick. It is a town named after The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. There is a 200 year-old flour mill there, and we took a look. The building is seven floors- two underground and five above. There was also a twenty eight foot waterfall, which was cool. The water was cold, and didn’t look so hygienic either. The water was cleaner than the rivers back home though.
We’re at the campground now; we headed there after the mill. It’s right next to the Mississippi River. We hiked down to the river; it was around half a mile one way. We took Muffin and Lavern, and once we got to the water, Lavern curled up and went to sleep. Poor thing, she’s only about eight inches high, and the stairs and rocks we were stepping down were taller than my knee. She’s a determined little bugger though, on the way back up she was set on keeping up with Muffin, who climbed the rocks with ease. It was a tricky hike back up, really tough. My legs are quite tired and there gonna be like that for a couple weeks.
There are some kids in the next campground that won’t shut up. They’ve been screaming their heads off for hours. Once one starts crying the other one starts, then a baby down a couple sites starts howling. It’s similar too a pack of dogs. I think they’ve finally calmed down.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
A New Addition
Friday, 24, August, 2007
Nothing much happened today, we packed and headed down the road around 7, making a few stops along the way. Only one major event happened today, so prepare to be enlightened as you read on…
Last week, our neighbors brought home an eight week old Cocker Spaniel. When they went to pick up the puppy, there was a sister that was unclaimed for. They decided to bring them both home. We found out Thursday that they had decided that two puppys, along with two little boys, were too much (take a wild guess to where this is leading). My siblings and I begged our parents too let us buy the puppy. She was so incredible cute and well-tempered. The only problem was that the neighbors wanted us to decided before we left for our trip. No pressure or anything mom and dad, but you need to decide if we can keep the puppy and take her on our sixteen day trip in a 32’ RV with six people and another dog. Just ignore the fact that she’s about as big as your forearm, not house trained, and we leave in less than twenty-four hours.
They decided Friday that we would do a “trial run” for a couple hours, seeing if two dogs were too much too handle. Finally, we got our answer. They decided five minutes before we left that we could keep the puppy, who was already dubbed Lavern by the breeders.
We debated whether or not to change her name. Part of the family wanted to keep it Lavern, while the other half voted for several other names. The most popular of the names was Lola, but I had my own favorite: Butch.
That’s pretty much it for Friday (it’s Saturday right now). We ended our night outside of Chicago.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
Nothing much happened today, we packed and headed down the road around 7, making a few stops along the way. Only one major event happened today, so prepare to be enlightened as you read on…
Last week, our neighbors brought home an eight week old Cocker Spaniel. When they went to pick up the puppy, there was a sister that was unclaimed for. They decided to bring them both home. We found out Thursday that they had decided that two puppys, along with two little boys, were too much (take a wild guess to where this is leading). My siblings and I begged our parents too let us buy the puppy. She was so incredible cute and well-tempered. The only problem was that the neighbors wanted us to decided before we left for our trip. No pressure or anything mom and dad, but you need to decide if we can keep the puppy and take her on our sixteen day trip in a 32’ RV with six people and another dog. Just ignore the fact that she’s about as big as your forearm, not house trained, and we leave in less than twenty-four hours.
They decided Friday that we would do a “trial run” for a couple hours, seeing if two dogs were too much too handle. Finally, we got our answer. They decided five minutes before we left that we could keep the puppy, who was already dubbed Lavern by the breeders.
We debated whether or not to change her name. Part of the family wanted to keep it Lavern, while the other half voted for several other names. The most popular of the names was Lola, but I had my own favorite: Butch.
That’s pretty much it for Friday (it’s Saturday right now). We ended our night outside of Chicago.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
Sunday, May 06, 2007
WE'RE HOME!
Sunday, May 06, 2007
7:30 p.m
We just got home a while ago. We drove all day, did math, and I had to finish A Tale of Two Cities (Yuck) before I got on the computer. Nothing really exciting happened. I washed windows with the thingy at the gas station.
Comments: BEN IS THE WINNER! YAY HOO!
SMILES!
~Morgan~
7:30 p.m
We just got home a while ago. We drove all day, did math, and I had to finish A Tale of Two Cities (Yuck) before I got on the computer. Nothing really exciting happened. I washed windows with the thingy at the gas station.
Comments: BEN IS THE WINNER! YAY HOO!
SMILES!
~Morgan~
MENTAL FLOSS
Sunday, May 06, 2007
7:30 p.m
Ok guys, sorry I didn’t blog yesterday. We didn’t have internet access. Here’s what happened:
Thankfully it was sunny today, but it was our last day so it was kinda depressing. We took a bike ride around the neighborhoods, bought ice cream at the camp store (it’s really hot here) and headed to Perdido Key. We stopped on the way to buy some fresh sea food like crab cakes, tuna(that thing is beautiful) and some other fish that I forget the name of, maybe Mahi Mahi?
Perdido Key was a bit more crowded today but it still wasn’t bad at all. We spent the day in the waves, snorkeling, and lazing around. We did see a GINOURMOUS jellyfish, we think it was a Man O’ War. YIKES! We don’t know if it was dead or alive. I sure didn’t wanna find out.
I went snorkeling with Darby and my dad and we saw a couple fish. Nothing impressive. We started to head back around the rocks to see if we could spot anything else, but I got out ‘cause I got stuck by the jellyfish. Yes again, third time in my life. This time it was bleeding just a bit. My dad and Darby went back around, and apparently saw two HUMONGOUS FISH! One was about as long as your arm, and the other one was about as long as your leg according to my dad. They also went through a whole clump of jellyfish! They said it was like in Finding Nemo, but, of course, my dad and sister didn’t get stung! I was furious. I can walk into the ocean and get stung instantly, but they can go through a whole field of them and not get stung. ARG!
We also saw this weird little things on the beach. They were in bright purple shells, and it looked like some sort of egg. Some of these creatures were hatched, they were also purple and about the size of your pinkie nail, they looked like little crabs or something. Hopefully the pics turned out. They were freaky.
We left around three, and drove the rest of the night. Exciting huh? By the way, comments are looking great Ben and Becky?
SMILES!
~Morgan~
7:30 p.m
Ok guys, sorry I didn’t blog yesterday. We didn’t have internet access. Here’s what happened:
Thankfully it was sunny today, but it was our last day so it was kinda depressing. We took a bike ride around the neighborhoods, bought ice cream at the camp store (it’s really hot here) and headed to Perdido Key. We stopped on the way to buy some fresh sea food like crab cakes, tuna(that thing is beautiful) and some other fish that I forget the name of, maybe Mahi Mahi?
Perdido Key was a bit more crowded today but it still wasn’t bad at all. We spent the day in the waves, snorkeling, and lazing around. We did see a GINOURMOUS jellyfish, we think it was a Man O’ War. YIKES! We don’t know if it was dead or alive. I sure didn’t wanna find out.
I went snorkeling with Darby and my dad and we saw a couple fish. Nothing impressive. We started to head back around the rocks to see if we could spot anything else, but I got out ‘cause I got stuck by the jellyfish. Yes again, third time in my life. This time it was bleeding just a bit. My dad and Darby went back around, and apparently saw two HUMONGOUS FISH! One was about as long as your arm, and the other one was about as long as your leg according to my dad. They also went through a whole clump of jellyfish! They said it was like in Finding Nemo, but, of course, my dad and sister didn’t get stung! I was furious. I can walk into the ocean and get stung instantly, but they can go through a whole field of them and not get stung. ARG!
We also saw this weird little things on the beach. They were in bright purple shells, and it looked like some sort of egg. Some of these creatures were hatched, they were also purple and about the size of your pinkie nail, they looked like little crabs or something. Hopefully the pics turned out. They were freaky.
We left around three, and drove the rest of the night. Exciting huh? By the way, comments are looking great Ben and Becky?
SMILES!
~Morgan~
Friday, May 04, 2007
Tut Tut, Looks Like Rain!
Friday, May 04, 2007
8:30 p.m Fort Wayne, 7:30 Alabama
Wow you guys, nice on the commenting-keep it up! Here’s the current score- Ben,10; Anguiano,2; V, 8; Becky, 2; Rachel Schenke; 2. Overall, boys 12, girls 12!
It was cloudy and rainy today. YUCK. We were planning to go to the pool and beach (again) but everyone was kinda sick of that today and it wasn’t the greatest weather.
We decided to take the ferry over to Dauphin Island and go to the estuarium (kinda like an aquarium). We barely made it to the 11:45 a.m. ferry. The bad part about the ferry is that the last ride is at 6:30 p.m. and if you don’t make you’re stuck. Yea, and ya know that time isn’t the talent in the Ellis household. The ferry over was wet and pretty uneventful. I was hoping to see some dolphins since this was the same place we saw them two days ago, but I wasn’t in luck. The estuarium was really neat. Some of the fish were appallingly huge! It tells all about Mobil Bay and all about the natural gas fields under Mobil Bay, and about all the habitats around Mobil Bay. We ate lunch there too.
We decided to go back on the ferry early because it was starting to rain. The next ride was in an hour. So we sat out in the pouring rain, for an hour, playing a game called Fill or Bust. Fun game. We’re pretty much obsessed with this game. I’ll teach it to ya’ll at a swim meet some time. Ok, back to the original subject. We found a little overhang on a bathroom building were the pop machines are, so we sat there and played our game. We looked like a homeless bunch, or a crazy mob, take your pick.
After waiting an hour for the ferry we then stood on the ferry in the drizzle for another 45 minutes. We were the only “walkers” everyone else sat in their cars on the ferry. They were gracious enough to let us use the room where they stored the life jackets, only we couldn’t touch the emergency fuel/oil shut off. That would be horribly bad. Darby got about three inches from it one time and I was leaning on it before I found out what it was. YIKES!
We got back to the campground and Darby and Tatum went swimming and I sat here and blogged, then took a break for chicken enchiladias, beans and corn, and marshmallows. We’re about to go play more games. I’m kinda glad that today was rainy, my sunburn couldn’t afford a sunny day. Last night was one disturbed night. Lol.
Today was our last full day, depressing lemme tell ya. Tomorrow we’ll be here some of the day, but then we head back to Indiana.
Whoever comments the most, I’m gonna bring ya back a treat from Alabama ok? Ok. KEEP THE COMMENT’S GOING!
SMILES!
~Morgan~
8:30 p.m Fort Wayne, 7:30 Alabama
Wow you guys, nice on the commenting-keep it up! Here’s the current score- Ben,10; Anguiano,2; V, 8; Becky, 2; Rachel Schenke; 2. Overall, boys 12, girls 12!
It was cloudy and rainy today. YUCK. We were planning to go to the pool and beach (again) but everyone was kinda sick of that today and it wasn’t the greatest weather.
We decided to take the ferry over to Dauphin Island and go to the estuarium (kinda like an aquarium). We barely made it to the 11:45 a.m. ferry. The bad part about the ferry is that the last ride is at 6:30 p.m. and if you don’t make you’re stuck. Yea, and ya know that time isn’t the talent in the Ellis household. The ferry over was wet and pretty uneventful. I was hoping to see some dolphins since this was the same place we saw them two days ago, but I wasn’t in luck. The estuarium was really neat. Some of the fish were appallingly huge! It tells all about Mobil Bay and all about the natural gas fields under Mobil Bay, and about all the habitats around Mobil Bay. We ate lunch there too.
We decided to go back on the ferry early because it was starting to rain. The next ride was in an hour. So we sat out in the pouring rain, for an hour, playing a game called Fill or Bust. Fun game. We’re pretty much obsessed with this game. I’ll teach it to ya’ll at a swim meet some time. Ok, back to the original subject. We found a little overhang on a bathroom building were the pop machines are, so we sat there and played our game. We looked like a homeless bunch, or a crazy mob, take your pick.
After waiting an hour for the ferry we then stood on the ferry in the drizzle for another 45 minutes. We were the only “walkers” everyone else sat in their cars on the ferry. They were gracious enough to let us use the room where they stored the life jackets, only we couldn’t touch the emergency fuel/oil shut off. That would be horribly bad. Darby got about three inches from it one time and I was leaning on it before I found out what it was. YIKES!
We got back to the campground and Darby and Tatum went swimming and I sat here and blogged, then took a break for chicken enchiladias, beans and corn, and marshmallows. We’re about to go play more games. I’m kinda glad that today was rainy, my sunburn couldn’t afford a sunny day. Last night was one disturbed night. Lol.
Today was our last full day, depressing lemme tell ya. Tomorrow we’ll be here some of the day, but then we head back to Indiana.
Whoever comments the most, I’m gonna bring ya back a treat from Alabama ok? Ok. KEEP THE COMMENT’S GOING!
SMILES!
~Morgan~
Thursday, May 03, 2007
BEN'S IN THE LEAD!
Thursday, May 03, 2007
9:42 p.m. Fort Wayne, 8:42 Alabama
Ok, I did not burn my armpits, close to the armpits, but not the armpits. I will admit that I did sort of kinda chicken out on the seagulls though. I’m saying this to end this topic. Oh, and the phone number, if you haven’t noticed Dumby put our phone number on the blog ( I have edited this by now, my mom wasn’t very happy) but fortunately she put the wrong phone number-by accident. Yea, she missed a number. Imagine my pride when the brain of my younger sister is shown for all the world to see. Okay, now for the story of our day.
We headed straight for the beach on Perdido Key this morning. Perdido Key is partially in Florida and partially in Alabama. They actually have a section of the island called the Floribama, the Florida/Alabama line. While we were crossing the bridge to the island we saw the most beautiful beach ever. The water was a gorgeous blue green. It was a small peninsula, with one of the sides choppy and wave-ridden, and the other side calmer and clearer. We decided to stop and stay at the beach.
We were hoping to snorkel but we soon found out that the water was to choppy. However, the waves were FANTABULOUS! Seriously huge! We played in them all day. There was a fisherman there too that had caught a 40 lb Pompino. It was about as big as Katty. He had the fish (and another smaller one) in the same cooler as he had his food! I was like, oh nice. He said he’s caught a 90lb Pompino before!
Around 4 we decided to take a walk toward the bridge. We saw dolphins again!!!!!! I was so happy. Unfortunately, there were boats traveling through so I couldn’t go swim with them. It was still cool though. I also saw two crabs and a dead shrimp.
We went to a place called Mikee’s seafood for dinner. I shared the seafood platter with my mom which included fish, shrimp, gumbo ( I love that stuff), hush puppies, fritters, French fries, and oysters. Darby and Tatum decided to be pigs and both order the All You Can Eat Shrimp. They each had three platefuls, Darby had only a little bit to go on her third plate. We had heard that the Peanut Butter Pie here was awesome. We ordered some peanut butter pie and some key lime. The peanut butter pie was melt in your mouth good. Seriously delicious.
Ok, one bad thing about today. I got fried. I am burnt on the back of my legs, my arms, and my face. My “armpit burn” is better. So are my feet. Tatum also looks like a blonde tomato for your information. I need to change my password for the login to the blog. She can say too much sometimes. Oh, and I got stung by a jellyfish today.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
P.S. Ben’s in the lead!
9:42 p.m. Fort Wayne, 8:42 Alabama
Ok, I did not burn my armpits, close to the armpits, but not the armpits. I will admit that I did sort of kinda chicken out on the seagulls though. I’m saying this to end this topic. Oh, and the phone number, if you haven’t noticed Dumby put our phone number on the blog ( I have edited this by now, my mom wasn’t very happy) but fortunately she put the wrong phone number-by accident. Yea, she missed a number. Imagine my pride when the brain of my younger sister is shown for all the world to see. Okay, now for the story of our day.
We headed straight for the beach on Perdido Key this morning. Perdido Key is partially in Florida and partially in Alabama. They actually have a section of the island called the Floribama, the Florida/Alabama line. While we were crossing the bridge to the island we saw the most beautiful beach ever. The water was a gorgeous blue green. It was a small peninsula, with one of the sides choppy and wave-ridden, and the other side calmer and clearer. We decided to stop and stay at the beach.
We were hoping to snorkel but we soon found out that the water was to choppy. However, the waves were FANTABULOUS! Seriously huge! We played in them all day. There was a fisherman there too that had caught a 40 lb Pompino. It was about as big as Katty. He had the fish (and another smaller one) in the same cooler as he had his food! I was like, oh nice. He said he’s caught a 90lb Pompino before!
Around 4 we decided to take a walk toward the bridge. We saw dolphins again!!!!!! I was so happy. Unfortunately, there were boats traveling through so I couldn’t go swim with them. It was still cool though. I also saw two crabs and a dead shrimp.
We went to a place called Mikee’s seafood for dinner. I shared the seafood platter with my mom which included fish, shrimp, gumbo ( I love that stuff), hush puppies, fritters, French fries, and oysters. Darby and Tatum decided to be pigs and both order the All You Can Eat Shrimp. They each had three platefuls, Darby had only a little bit to go on her third plate. We had heard that the Peanut Butter Pie here was awesome. We ordered some peanut butter pie and some key lime. The peanut butter pie was melt in your mouth good. Seriously delicious.
Ok, one bad thing about today. I got fried. I am burnt on the back of my legs, my arms, and my face. My “armpit burn” is better. So are my feet. Tatum also looks like a blonde tomato for your information. I need to change my password for the login to the blog. She can say too much sometimes. Oh, and I got stung by a jellyfish today.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
P.S. Ben’s in the lead!
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Two of Morgans many,many, lies
10:27, Fort Wayne, 9:26 Alabama.
In spite of what Morgan may say, her armpits are burnt, and she totally chickend out to the seagull dare. Another one of the lies shes fed you is that she didn't know we had any more crackers. I told her a thousand times we had five packs of Saltines. if you would like to hear anymore of the lies shes told you, call me at -----------. Thank you.
Miles and Smiles!
Tatum
P.S. Comment or Morgan and I will never blog again.
In spite of what Morgan may say, her armpits are burnt, and she totally chickend out to the seagull dare. Another one of the lies shes fed you is that she didn't know we had any more crackers. I told her a thousand times we had five packs of Saltines. if you would like to hear anymore of the lies shes told you, call me at -----------. Thank you.
Miles and Smiles!
Tatum
P.S. Comment or Morgan and I will never blog again.
A comment to Tatum's untruthful post
Just to add to Tatum's post. I did not chicken out. I didn't know we had more crackers. Ok? Thank you.
SMILES!
SMILES!
I DID NOT BURN MY ARMPITS!!!!!!!!
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
7:07 Fort Wayne, 6:07 Alabama
Ok, I did NOT BURN MY ARMPITS! Whatever Tatum said – don’t believe it. Seriously, my shoulders are burnt, along with the skin that is part of the crease over the armpit, not the pit of the arm. My golly. My feet are burnt though, there getting better.
Hung around the pool this morning- again. We started to head to the beach around noon but Darby and Tatum wanted to buy a snorkel set and a boogie board so we stopped at a sovienir shop called Alvins. They had shirts for 10 bucks! I was in heaven. I got two t-shirts and Darby and Tatum each got a snorkel, mask, and boogie board.
We found a parking spot right across from the beach we wanted to go to. We finally headed out of the RV but there were some really dark clouds in the sky and the wind started picking up. Afraid that it was gonna rain, we headed back across the street to the RV. Half the family changed into regular clothes and we went with plan B.
Scoop’s, an ice cream shoppe, was just around the corner. We stopped in there and got some. The funny thing was that they served Edy’s, which probably came from the factory in Fort Wayne! The ice cream was real good though. My mom had Dulce le Leche, Tatum had Toll House cookie dough, Darby had Rocky Road (or something like that), Katty had Mint Chocolate Chip, my dad had Fudge Brownie, and I had Double chocolate Malt ball(or something like that).
After eating (or licking), we headed over to this boardwalk thingy that went through this nature reserve. Apparently you were supposed to see alligators because they had a sign saying that if you fed ‘em that it’d be a $500 fine and six months imprisonment. We didn’t see an gators much to my disappointment. We did see lots of fishes and three crabs though!
By that time it was sunny again (of course) but we just decided to head to the pool. We hung around there and played games, and now I’m in the RV blogging, my dad’s preparing dinner (Buffalo wings: yummy) and the rest of the gang is still swimming.
And you know what the closing paragraph is gonna be don’t cha? COMMENT! I shouldn’t even have to ask ya’ll anymore, but I’m still waiting for the Andrew’s. I can’t really blame the Vogts considering they just got home today. So far, I believe V is in the lead with three comments, Schenke and Becky close behind with two each, and Ben has one. You guys better get a hustle.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
7:07 Fort Wayne, 6:07 Alabama
Ok, I did NOT BURN MY ARMPITS! Whatever Tatum said – don’t believe it. Seriously, my shoulders are burnt, along with the skin that is part of the crease over the armpit, not the pit of the arm. My golly. My feet are burnt though, there getting better.
Hung around the pool this morning- again. We started to head to the beach around noon but Darby and Tatum wanted to buy a snorkel set and a boogie board so we stopped at a sovienir shop called Alvins. They had shirts for 10 bucks! I was in heaven. I got two t-shirts and Darby and Tatum each got a snorkel, mask, and boogie board.
We found a parking spot right across from the beach we wanted to go to. We finally headed out of the RV but there were some really dark clouds in the sky and the wind started picking up. Afraid that it was gonna rain, we headed back across the street to the RV. Half the family changed into regular clothes and we went with plan B.
Scoop’s, an ice cream shoppe, was just around the corner. We stopped in there and got some. The funny thing was that they served Edy’s, which probably came from the factory in Fort Wayne! The ice cream was real good though. My mom had Dulce le Leche, Tatum had Toll House cookie dough, Darby had Rocky Road (or something like that), Katty had Mint Chocolate Chip, my dad had Fudge Brownie, and I had Double chocolate Malt ball(or something like that).
After eating (or licking), we headed over to this boardwalk thingy that went through this nature reserve. Apparently you were supposed to see alligators because they had a sign saying that if you fed ‘em that it’d be a $500 fine and six months imprisonment. We didn’t see an gators much to my disappointment. We did see lots of fishes and three crabs though!
By that time it was sunny again (of course) but we just decided to head to the pool. We hung around there and played games, and now I’m in the RV blogging, my dad’s preparing dinner (Buffalo wings: yummy) and the rest of the gang is still swimming.
And you know what the closing paragraph is gonna be don’t cha? COMMENT! I shouldn’t even have to ask ya’ll anymore, but I’m still waiting for the Andrew’s. I can’t really blame the Vogts considering they just got home today. So far, I believe V is in the lead with three comments, Schenke and Becky close behind with two each, and Ben has one. You guys better get a hustle.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
I was eaten alive by seagulls!
well not exactly but it was REALLY close. Okay, let me tell you the whole story before you start to jump to conclusions. After Morgans narrow escape from a vicious flock of seagulls, my Mom dared her to lie down with crackers on her stomach. She totally chickened out, so I had to do it. My mom decided to videotape it. First, I gave them all crackers so about a hundred seagulls were surrounding me After I laid on the ground with crackers all over me about ten minutes, I decided to put a hat over my face hoping they'd think i was just a blob. About three minutes later, I felt a thwump on my belly. A brave seagull who was hoovering above me decided to eat off me. It felt weird. Natrally, my Mom managed not to catch it on video. It happened again. And again. neither of the times did my Mom catch it on tape. I dont know what she was pointing that camra at but it certainly wasn't me. f
Feeling a little discouraged, I shooed all the seagulls away. That was my second neardeath experince. Can you guys comment Puh-leez, not that I really care, but I want to make Morgan really mad that you guys commented for me and not her.
MILES AND SMILES!
Tatum
P.S. Morgan has sunburnt feet and armpits.
Feeling a little discouraged, I shooed all the seagulls away. That was my second neardeath experince. Can you guys comment Puh-leez, not that I really care, but I want to make Morgan really mad that you guys commented for me and not her.
MILES AND SMILES!
Tatum
P.S. Morgan has sunburnt feet and armpits.
I am a hero!
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
8:23 Fort Wayne, 7:23 Alabama
Okidoke, another “laze around and sit on our butts day”, along with a little action, of course. We headed to the pool after breakfast and met this girl there named Sara. She was absolutely hysterical. I’m guessing she was around nine. Her accent made her all the more funny. She had three older brothers and you could obviously tell they teased the living daylights out of her.
Around noon we headed for a short drive down the coast to Fort Morgan (funny huh?). It was one of the last forts to fall to the Yankee’s during the civil war. It’s at the tip where Mobil Bay and the Gulf of Mexico meet and Mobil Bay was the only outsource of trade for the blockade runners during that time. It was really interesting.
There was a beach right next to the fort so we decided to go over. The beach was diffidently not a public beach. There was trash in numerous places but there was also a lot of wildlife. We saw about a billion of dead crabs, three of them are huge. Tatum buried the big ones. We also saw a dead jellyfish. There was a dip in the sand and it looked like a making of a tide pool. There were two little fishes stuck in there, perfect bait for the stupid seagulls. They were adorable, about the size of your middle finger. I had to get them out, and I did quite easily. And yes, with my bare hands (ok, with the help of a shell). I was very proud of myself, that's three lives I've saved this trip.
We found thousands of hermit crabs and Katty was fascinated with those. We decided to walk down to a fishing pier about half a mile away. There was a heron (one of my mom’s favorite birds) that was sitting on one of the posts. We got super duper close. The pier was pretty boring but just as we were leaving I hear one of the fisherman mutter something to his other friends. He said something about dolphins. I look behind me and see that out a long ways away in the middle of the ocean were a whole school of dolphins! If you guys don’t know, those guys are my favorite animals of all time. We watched them forever. Finally, they started heading away and we started to walk the long way back to the towels. I saw them pretty close to the beach, about a 75 away. I begged to go out and see them, so Darby, Tatum, Dad, and I started swimming out. Unfortunately, they swim darn fast! They went out to deep and it’d be impossible to catch ‘em. In a manner of speaking, we were swimming with the dolphins. The dolphins and us were in the same body of water, at the same time, in a relatively close vicinity. So I swam with the dolphins!
Ok, now its 9:30 your guys’ time. I took a break to watch American Idol and eat dinner- hamburgers, succotash, burnt fried potatoes! Ok. I’m heading to bed now. You know what I’m gonna say- COMMENT AND THEN YOU’LL TRULY KNOW THAT ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT FOREST FIRES!
SMILES!
~Morgan~
8:23 Fort Wayne, 7:23 Alabama
Okidoke, another “laze around and sit on our butts day”, along with a little action, of course. We headed to the pool after breakfast and met this girl there named Sara. She was absolutely hysterical. I’m guessing she was around nine. Her accent made her all the more funny. She had three older brothers and you could obviously tell they teased the living daylights out of her.
Around noon we headed for a short drive down the coast to Fort Morgan (funny huh?). It was one of the last forts to fall to the Yankee’s during the civil war. It’s at the tip where Mobil Bay and the Gulf of Mexico meet and Mobil Bay was the only outsource of trade for the blockade runners during that time. It was really interesting.
There was a beach right next to the fort so we decided to go over. The beach was diffidently not a public beach. There was trash in numerous places but there was also a lot of wildlife. We saw about a billion of dead crabs, three of them are huge. Tatum buried the big ones. We also saw a dead jellyfish. There was a dip in the sand and it looked like a making of a tide pool. There were two little fishes stuck in there, perfect bait for the stupid seagulls. They were adorable, about the size of your middle finger. I had to get them out, and I did quite easily. And yes, with my bare hands (ok, with the help of a shell). I was very proud of myself, that's three lives I've saved this trip.
We found thousands of hermit crabs and Katty was fascinated with those. We decided to walk down to a fishing pier about half a mile away. There was a heron (one of my mom’s favorite birds) that was sitting on one of the posts. We got super duper close. The pier was pretty boring but just as we were leaving I hear one of the fisherman mutter something to his other friends. He said something about dolphins. I look behind me and see that out a long ways away in the middle of the ocean were a whole school of dolphins! If you guys don’t know, those guys are my favorite animals of all time. We watched them forever. Finally, they started heading away and we started to walk the long way back to the towels. I saw them pretty close to the beach, about a 75 away. I begged to go out and see them, so Darby, Tatum, Dad, and I started swimming out. Unfortunately, they swim darn fast! They went out to deep and it’d be impossible to catch ‘em. In a manner of speaking, we were swimming with the dolphins. The dolphins and us were in the same body of water, at the same time, in a relatively close vicinity. So I swam with the dolphins!
Ok, now its 9:30 your guys’ time. I took a break to watch American Idol and eat dinner- hamburgers, succotash, burnt fried potatoes! Ok. I’m heading to bed now. You know what I’m gonna say- COMMENT AND THEN YOU’LL TRULY KNOW THAT ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT FOREST FIRES!
SMILES!
~Morgan~
Monday, April 30, 2007
I shouldn't be alive
Monday, April 30, 2007
10:22 Fort Wayne, 9:22 Alabama
Sigh, what a hard day. Seriously, I’m just so darn pooped. We went to the pool first thing again this morning, right after breakfast. Katty wanted to try out her new snorkel and fins. Tatum and my mom had the video camera today. That wasn’t good.
We headed to the beach around 11. That’s pretty much what we did all day. Played in the sand, snorkeled- oh, speaking of snorkeling. There wasn’t much to snorkel for but I just dove around with my goggles. I was looking for sand dollars. I love those guys. I did find about five billion little live dudes. They’re everywhere! I found some cool shells and stuff. I went out with my dad for a little while in the morning. Then around 4:30 I went out with my mom because my dad and my sisters had found some dead sand dollars and neat shells. We were out for a while but we needed to leave. I was heading toward shore when I stood up to yell something to my mom. Suddenly (drumroll please), I felt something slither across my foot. I stuck my head down in the water as quick as possible. I saw a flat body and two eyes burying itself in the sand right by my foot. It was a stingray!!!! I’m dead serious! I’ve seen stingrays before and I know what they look like. It was scary. I could’ve died. There’s one of my near death experiences for today.
Ok, back to that morning. The seagulls here are the most annoying thing you’ve ever encountered. They squawk like it’s the end of the world. It was near lunchtime but we weren’t going to go get food for a while. I opened a Ziploc bag full of Sunchips. I was munchin on ‘em when I see a seagull following me. I toss a tiny piece over to him, and right away six more of them appear. I decide to have a little fun and pretend that I’m actually throwing food toward them. Bad idea. Apparently, their squawking is some kinda language because every freaking living bird on that beach started chasing me! I started running. Like really running and their flying after me squawking and chasing me. I’m still holding the chips so I throw the last handful behind me, deterring about four out of the twenty five birds. Since that didn’t work I start running into the water, then realize that they can fly, so water doesn’t really affect them. I finally throw the Ziploc behind me and then they realize that I have no more food for their big mouths. It was terrifying. Dumb birds.
After the beach we all got showers and went to dinner. The restaurant was LuLu’s (the one we wanted to go to Saturday night) and it’s the LuLu Buffet’s restaurant. LuLu Buffet happens to be the sister of Jimmy Buffet, one of our family’s favorite artists. The restaurant was awesome. I had a shrimp sandwich, which was one of the messiest sandwiches I’ve ever eaten, and gumbo and a pina colada. I haven’t had a pina colada in FOREVER and it tasted delicious. My sister’s and mom ordered a seafood platter, a platter that was supposed to feed two. My dad made a mistake ordering and ordered two of the platters so Darby, Tatum, and my mom had a humongous dinner. We still have so much food.
After the ginourmous dinner we shopped in the gift shop for a little bit and my dad bought a t-shirt.
So I hope you guys are happy. I had two life threatening experiences today. And PLEASE COMMENT. Just because you’ve commented once doesn’t mean you’ve filled your quota (*cough cough Ben*).
Smiles!
~Morgan~
10:22 Fort Wayne, 9:22 Alabama
Sigh, what a hard day. Seriously, I’m just so darn pooped. We went to the pool first thing again this morning, right after breakfast. Katty wanted to try out her new snorkel and fins. Tatum and my mom had the video camera today. That wasn’t good.
We headed to the beach around 11. That’s pretty much what we did all day. Played in the sand, snorkeled- oh, speaking of snorkeling. There wasn’t much to snorkel for but I just dove around with my goggles. I was looking for sand dollars. I love those guys. I did find about five billion little live dudes. They’re everywhere! I found some cool shells and stuff. I went out with my dad for a little while in the morning. Then around 4:30 I went out with my mom because my dad and my sisters had found some dead sand dollars and neat shells. We were out for a while but we needed to leave. I was heading toward shore when I stood up to yell something to my mom. Suddenly (drumroll please), I felt something slither across my foot. I stuck my head down in the water as quick as possible. I saw a flat body and two eyes burying itself in the sand right by my foot. It was a stingray!!!! I’m dead serious! I’ve seen stingrays before and I know what they look like. It was scary. I could’ve died. There’s one of my near death experiences for today.
Ok, back to that morning. The seagulls here are the most annoying thing you’ve ever encountered. They squawk like it’s the end of the world. It was near lunchtime but we weren’t going to go get food for a while. I opened a Ziploc bag full of Sunchips. I was munchin on ‘em when I see a seagull following me. I toss a tiny piece over to him, and right away six more of them appear. I decide to have a little fun and pretend that I’m actually throwing food toward them. Bad idea. Apparently, their squawking is some kinda language because every freaking living bird on that beach started chasing me! I started running. Like really running and their flying after me squawking and chasing me. I’m still holding the chips so I throw the last handful behind me, deterring about four out of the twenty five birds. Since that didn’t work I start running into the water, then realize that they can fly, so water doesn’t really affect them. I finally throw the Ziploc behind me and then they realize that I have no more food for their big mouths. It was terrifying. Dumb birds.
After the beach we all got showers and went to dinner. The restaurant was LuLu’s (the one we wanted to go to Saturday night) and it’s the LuLu Buffet’s restaurant. LuLu Buffet happens to be the sister of Jimmy Buffet, one of our family’s favorite artists. The restaurant was awesome. I had a shrimp sandwich, which was one of the messiest sandwiches I’ve ever eaten, and gumbo and a pina colada. I haven’t had a pina colada in FOREVER and it tasted delicious. My sister’s and mom ordered a seafood platter, a platter that was supposed to feed two. My dad made a mistake ordering and ordered two of the platters so Darby, Tatum, and my mom had a humongous dinner. We still have so much food.
After the ginourmous dinner we shopped in the gift shop for a little bit and my dad bought a t-shirt.
So I hope you guys are happy. I had two life threatening experiences today. And PLEASE COMMENT. Just because you’ve commented once doesn’t mean you’ve filled your quota (*cough cough Ben*).
Smiles!
~Morgan~
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Day 3, and two almost dead
Sunday, April 29, 2007
9:27 Fort Wayne, 8:27 Alabama
It’s sunny here! Yippee! Our campsite is freakin awesome. We’re about 50 feet directly across from the pool and playground. So that’s what we did this morning. It took us about an hour and a half after breakfast to finally get to the pool. The water was freezing at first, but you know us, we finally got in –after about three seconds.
The peoples’ accents here are so darn funny! I’m not trying to be ugly or anything, but they are! I’m already starting to think in the Y’all conversations and have to force myself not to talk that way. It’s so easy to! Just wait till I see ya’ll again, it’ll be something funny!
We lazed around the pool till lunch, and then walked the whole 50 feet back to the RV. What a work out. My mom was worried about us getting to much sun, so after lunch we stayed inside the RV for a bit. Tatum and Katty went across the street to the playground, my parents talked to their mothers, and Darby and I hung around doing squat.
One of the other lovely things about Gulf Shores is that they have a bike trail connecting the town. It’s kinda like the one in Fort Wayne. So we decided to take advantage of it. We rode into town on the bikes, stopping at the same store we did last night. I bought some jewelry (hey, I couldn’t resist, and it was a good price), my mom bought some jewelry and a bathing suit, and Katty got a snorkel, mask, and flippers.
Oh, I failed to mention the Surf n’ Style. It is obviously popular here. They have four shops within a block or less of each other. You can see all of them by just looking around! And these aren’t little stores. They are HUGE! Three stories high, and they all have the same architecture, signs with the sales, and from the looks of it, the same interior design. It’s ridiculous.
We headed to the beach after shopping, around 4 o’clock. The water was surprisingly warm for it being April. We hung around, searched for shells, and Katty tried out her new snorkel and fins. They had tons of little sand dollars in the sand. And in mean little. Most were smaller than your pinkie finger nail. Ya, small huh?
We got hungry (big surprise there) and started heading back to the campground, with Darby as the lead biker. We were on the sidewalk at a four way stop, and my dad told Darby to go ahead, since traffic at our side was stopped and the walking dude was light up. Darby pushes off and suddenly a guy in a yellow sports car decides that he wants to make a right turn-right into Darby. We all yell at the top of our lungs, and Darby luckily is able to back up so the car misses her by inches. Literally inches. The guy didn’t even bat an eye. He just kept on going. We were furious.
Considering Darby and Tatum have both been in a life threatening experience the past three days, guess who’s up next? Yeppers, so tomorrow if I don’t blog, you can guess what happened to me.
We got back to the campground safely, and we all headed to the pool to wash of the salty grimy feel of the ocean. I made Jambalaya last weekend and we froze it to take on the trip. My dad heated it over the fire along with making fried potatoes. Yummy! It was delicious! S’mores were up next, with dark chocolate! It was so incredibly scrumptious. If you ever get a chance use dark instead of milk chocolate on s’mores, you’ll be glad you did. Ok, now I sound like a commercial.
None of us got sunburnt today- that’s a good thing. But, we still got a week to go and the sun’s strong. We all got brown, except for Tatum, who just gets whiter. My skin decided to welcome the sun by popping freckles out all over; similiar to every year. I hate that.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
9:27 Fort Wayne, 8:27 Alabama
It’s sunny here! Yippee! Our campsite is freakin awesome. We’re about 50 feet directly across from the pool and playground. So that’s what we did this morning. It took us about an hour and a half after breakfast to finally get to the pool. The water was freezing at first, but you know us, we finally got in –after about three seconds.
The peoples’ accents here are so darn funny! I’m not trying to be ugly or anything, but they are! I’m already starting to think in the Y’all conversations and have to force myself not to talk that way. It’s so easy to! Just wait till I see ya’ll again, it’ll be something funny!
We lazed around the pool till lunch, and then walked the whole 50 feet back to the RV. What a work out. My mom was worried about us getting to much sun, so after lunch we stayed inside the RV for a bit. Tatum and Katty went across the street to the playground, my parents talked to their mothers, and Darby and I hung around doing squat.
One of the other lovely things about Gulf Shores is that they have a bike trail connecting the town. It’s kinda like the one in Fort Wayne. So we decided to take advantage of it. We rode into town on the bikes, stopping at the same store we did last night. I bought some jewelry (hey, I couldn’t resist, and it was a good price), my mom bought some jewelry and a bathing suit, and Katty got a snorkel, mask, and flippers.
Oh, I failed to mention the Surf n’ Style. It is obviously popular here. They have four shops within a block or less of each other. You can see all of them by just looking around! And these aren’t little stores. They are HUGE! Three stories high, and they all have the same architecture, signs with the sales, and from the looks of it, the same interior design. It’s ridiculous.
We headed to the beach after shopping, around 4 o’clock. The water was surprisingly warm for it being April. We hung around, searched for shells, and Katty tried out her new snorkel and fins. They had tons of little sand dollars in the sand. And in mean little. Most were smaller than your pinkie finger nail. Ya, small huh?
We got hungry (big surprise there) and started heading back to the campground, with Darby as the lead biker. We were on the sidewalk at a four way stop, and my dad told Darby to go ahead, since traffic at our side was stopped and the walking dude was light up. Darby pushes off and suddenly a guy in a yellow sports car decides that he wants to make a right turn-right into Darby. We all yell at the top of our lungs, and Darby luckily is able to back up so the car misses her by inches. Literally inches. The guy didn’t even bat an eye. He just kept on going. We were furious.
Considering Darby and Tatum have both been in a life threatening experience the past three days, guess who’s up next? Yeppers, so tomorrow if I don’t blog, you can guess what happened to me.
We got back to the campground safely, and we all headed to the pool to wash of the salty grimy feel of the ocean. I made Jambalaya last weekend and we froze it to take on the trip. My dad heated it over the fire along with making fried potatoes. Yummy! It was delicious! S’mores were up next, with dark chocolate! It was so incredibly scrumptious. If you ever get a chance use dark instead of milk chocolate on s’mores, you’ll be glad you did. Ok, now I sound like a commercial.
None of us got sunburnt today- that’s a good thing. But, we still got a week to go and the sun’s strong. We all got brown, except for Tatum, who just gets whiter. My skin decided to welcome the sun by popping freckles out all over; similiar to every year. I hate that.
SMILES!
~Morgan~
I will Play for Gumbo
I Will Play For Gumbo
April 28, 2007
11:24 Indiana/ 10:24 Alabama
Busy day today. Really odd- for a driving day that is. I woke up as we were driving through the very last of Nashville. Anguiano-you’re a nutball. Ya know how you said if we drove through Nashville we would see the Rascal Flatts tour bus? Ya. I thought you’d remember that. Well Einstein, I hate to pop your bubble or anything, but it was simply a semi truck with a Rascal Flatts ad on the side of it. Not the tour bus. My parents thought it quite funny.
After we passed through Nashville I saw one of the most shocking things in my life; the Tennessee river. It was blue!!!!! Seriously, it was beautiful. There were five speedboats flying across this gorgeous blue water. Why is it blue? You might ask. Well, maybe because they don’t dump there poop in it! Geez. It was just wrong. We have three rivers in our city and we dump our poop in them. Arg. Ok. Moving on to something else.
If you remember last year, around this time, we happened to blow a tire in Alabama traveling from Florida to California. Well, Alabama isn’t a good state for tires. We blew another one. My mom was driving and suddenly there was that familiar popping/exploding noise. Luckily, there was a tire place at the next exit, about five miles ahead. We slowly got back on the road and made it there, only to find out that they were out of the tires we needed. Swell.
While we were there, we also discovered that when the tire blew, the piece of rubber flew back, catching the sewage pipes and loosened them. Then, when my dad went to drain the sewage, the sewage pipes completely fell apart, spilling “stuff” all over the ground. Use your imagination. And this is just another example of how the movie RV relates to our every day life.
We found another tire mart and they fixed us up in a jiffy. While they were repairing the tires, what else can you do but wait? Or shop. So my mom, Darby, Katty and I went to a nearby strip mall to shop for a swim suit for my mom, which she forgot. The tires were on again in about an hour and a half, and we were back on the road.
Alabama is absolutely GORGEOUS! Wild flowers grow on the sides of the highway, making Alabama one of the best smelling states I’ve been to. I’m not joking. Those flowers are extremely aromatic.
But, Alabama does have one, not so pleasing trait. Road kill. Yeppers, I saw around 22 armadillos, 4 raccoons, 1 turtle, and 4 or 5 unidentified objects. And my dad ran over a baby squirrel. That was horrible. I was in the front seat and suddenly there’s this squirrel standing right in front of the RV, he runs one way, then the other. Then squish. It was horrific. I screamed. I literally screamed. Obviously, my father didn’t see it. My stomach turned. Literally. And ya’ll know I can handle some pretty gross things. Just the sight of this innocent little being getting squished was just a little much. Ya, I gotta be done with this subject now.
We finally got to the campground around 7. My dad started working on the sewage problem. It killed my sisters and my mom to not be able to pee freely all day. We had to stop. Unless they wanted to pee on the road, which Darby decided to do. Of course, the tanks held some of it, when my dad went to work on it pee spilled all over his head. It was disgusting. It’s fixed now.
We wanted to go to LuLu’s, where there was a guy called the “Sauce Boss.” The dude sings the blues and makes gumbo, and then serves the gumbo after he’s done. Awesome huh? But by the time we got around to it was too late. He had already started and the wait was atrocious. So we went with plan B. The restaurant was called Sea n’ Suds and it was a small beachfront restaurant. I got the seafood platter to share with Tatum, including gumbo (I love that stuff), popcorn shrimp, hush puppies, fried fish, crab cakes, Cole slaw (yuck), and oysters. Yum yum yum. I love seafood.
We walked along the beach afterward; and went into this ginourmous souvenir shop. They had around eight whole rows full of jewelry, each with around three or four stands. I was in heaven. I thought of you V, they had flip flop bird houses, picture frames, necklaces, beer bottle openers!
Smiles!
~Morgan~
April 28, 2007
11:24 Indiana/ 10:24 Alabama
Busy day today. Really odd- for a driving day that is. I woke up as we were driving through the very last of Nashville. Anguiano-you’re a nutball. Ya know how you said if we drove through Nashville we would see the Rascal Flatts tour bus? Ya. I thought you’d remember that. Well Einstein, I hate to pop your bubble or anything, but it was simply a semi truck with a Rascal Flatts ad on the side of it. Not the tour bus. My parents thought it quite funny.
After we passed through Nashville I saw one of the most shocking things in my life; the Tennessee river. It was blue!!!!! Seriously, it was beautiful. There were five speedboats flying across this gorgeous blue water. Why is it blue? You might ask. Well, maybe because they don’t dump there poop in it! Geez. It was just wrong. We have three rivers in our city and we dump our poop in them. Arg. Ok. Moving on to something else.
If you remember last year, around this time, we happened to blow a tire in Alabama traveling from Florida to California. Well, Alabama isn’t a good state for tires. We blew another one. My mom was driving and suddenly there was that familiar popping/exploding noise. Luckily, there was a tire place at the next exit, about five miles ahead. We slowly got back on the road and made it there, only to find out that they were out of the tires we needed. Swell.
While we were there, we also discovered that when the tire blew, the piece of rubber flew back, catching the sewage pipes and loosened them. Then, when my dad went to drain the sewage, the sewage pipes completely fell apart, spilling “stuff” all over the ground. Use your imagination. And this is just another example of how the movie RV relates to our every day life.
We found another tire mart and they fixed us up in a jiffy. While they were repairing the tires, what else can you do but wait? Or shop. So my mom, Darby, Katty and I went to a nearby strip mall to shop for a swim suit for my mom, which she forgot. The tires were on again in about an hour and a half, and we were back on the road.
Alabama is absolutely GORGEOUS! Wild flowers grow on the sides of the highway, making Alabama one of the best smelling states I’ve been to. I’m not joking. Those flowers are extremely aromatic.
But, Alabama does have one, not so pleasing trait. Road kill. Yeppers, I saw around 22 armadillos, 4 raccoons, 1 turtle, and 4 or 5 unidentified objects. And my dad ran over a baby squirrel. That was horrible. I was in the front seat and suddenly there’s this squirrel standing right in front of the RV, he runs one way, then the other. Then squish. It was horrific. I screamed. I literally screamed. Obviously, my father didn’t see it. My stomach turned. Literally. And ya’ll know I can handle some pretty gross things. Just the sight of this innocent little being getting squished was just a little much. Ya, I gotta be done with this subject now.
We finally got to the campground around 7. My dad started working on the sewage problem. It killed my sisters and my mom to not be able to pee freely all day. We had to stop. Unless they wanted to pee on the road, which Darby decided to do. Of course, the tanks held some of it, when my dad went to work on it pee spilled all over his head. It was disgusting. It’s fixed now.
We wanted to go to LuLu’s, where there was a guy called the “Sauce Boss.” The dude sings the blues and makes gumbo, and then serves the gumbo after he’s done. Awesome huh? But by the time we got around to it was too late. He had already started and the wait was atrocious. So we went with plan B. The restaurant was called Sea n’ Suds and it was a small beachfront restaurant. I got the seafood platter to share with Tatum, including gumbo (I love that stuff), popcorn shrimp, hush puppies, fried fish, crab cakes, Cole slaw (yuck), and oysters. Yum yum yum. I love seafood.
We walked along the beach afterward; and went into this ginourmous souvenir shop. They had around eight whole rows full of jewelry, each with around three or four stands. I was in heaven. I thought of you V, they had flip flop bird houses, picture frames, necklaces, beer bottle openers!
Smiles!
~Morgan~
I Deserve A Medal
Friday, April 27, 2007
9:10
Ok, first day on the road. Right now we’re still in Indiana. I swear, once we were out of the Fort Wayne district, we could see a sunny horizon heading our way. By the time we entered Indy, it was all sun. It was so horribly nice.
I saved Tatum’s life today. I’m very proud of myself. Ok, she’s sitting in between the passenger and drivers seat on the engine cover. If you don’t know RV’s, you won’t have a clue what I’m talking about. Probably-unless you’re really smart. Anyhow, she was sitting there playing solitaire with Darby’s ipod, which was playing the music through the speakers. It was connected to the outlet by the way. Ya, so I was in the passenger seat and my dad’s driving. Tatums playing with the iPod. Got it? Good.
I suggested to Tatum that she takes my iPod which wasn’t plugged in, and go somewhere else. She took it and moved to the seat behind the passenger seat. About five minutes later, the TV that is above the engine cover, comes crashing down six feet onto the floor. Right where Tatum WAS SITTING! We were scared to death. The TV’s never done that. It’s plugged and strapped in, and its hard to get in and out of the wall. Nevertheless, Tatum’s head would’ve gotten smushed flat if I hadn’t booted her out. Talk about a ruined vacation. She didn’t even say thank you. Ungrateful child.
So yea, that’s perty much all that’s happened today. Not much happens on a driving day. I sat and looked out the window for three hours listening to my iPod. I haven’t had that much downtime since-well, last year at this time.
We’re in Louisville right now. Beautiful city. There’s a green building here. Like a building with green lights. I want a green building in Fort Wayne. Just entered Kentucky by the big bridge. It looks the same. Just passed the Jewish Hospital and a yellow billboard. Arthur Street is next exit. Gas is $2.99. Kentucky Derby Museum next right. Passed a Cracker Barrel. Taco Bell Billboard. Passing Cardinal Stadium. WOW! We just passed all these hot air balloons. There’s a huge Energizer Bunny Rabbit balloon. There doing a light up. There’s about sixty of them my mom guesstimated. Its amazing! Ok. I’m done now. Kinda bored can ya tell. Thankfully, my dad has some tv shows and movies on the laptop. YAY! MAKE SURE TO COMMENT!
SMILES!
~Morgan~
9:10
Ok, first day on the road. Right now we’re still in Indiana. I swear, once we were out of the Fort Wayne district, we could see a sunny horizon heading our way. By the time we entered Indy, it was all sun. It was so horribly nice.
I saved Tatum’s life today. I’m very proud of myself. Ok, she’s sitting in between the passenger and drivers seat on the engine cover. If you don’t know RV’s, you won’t have a clue what I’m talking about. Probably-unless you’re really smart. Anyhow, she was sitting there playing solitaire with Darby’s ipod, which was playing the music through the speakers. It was connected to the outlet by the way. Ya, so I was in the passenger seat and my dad’s driving. Tatums playing with the iPod. Got it? Good.
I suggested to Tatum that she takes my iPod which wasn’t plugged in, and go somewhere else. She took it and moved to the seat behind the passenger seat. About five minutes later, the TV that is above the engine cover, comes crashing down six feet onto the floor. Right where Tatum WAS SITTING! We were scared to death. The TV’s never done that. It’s plugged and strapped in, and its hard to get in and out of the wall. Nevertheless, Tatum’s head would’ve gotten smushed flat if I hadn’t booted her out. Talk about a ruined vacation. She didn’t even say thank you. Ungrateful child.
So yea, that’s perty much all that’s happened today. Not much happens on a driving day. I sat and looked out the window for three hours listening to my iPod. I haven’t had that much downtime since-well, last year at this time.
We’re in Louisville right now. Beautiful city. There’s a green building here. Like a building with green lights. I want a green building in Fort Wayne. Just entered Kentucky by the big bridge. It looks the same. Just passed the Jewish Hospital and a yellow billboard. Arthur Street is next exit. Gas is $2.99. Kentucky Derby Museum next right. Passed a Cracker Barrel. Taco Bell Billboard. Passing Cardinal Stadium. WOW! We just passed all these hot air balloons. There’s a huge Energizer Bunny Rabbit balloon. There doing a light up. There’s about sixty of them my mom guesstimated. Its amazing! Ok. I’m done now. Kinda bored can ya tell. Thankfully, my dad has some tv shows and movies on the laptop. YAY! MAKE SURE TO COMMENT!
SMILES!
~Morgan~
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