"Expedition" to Atlanta

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Work & Play
Church.

Mom picked me up at the house and we went out to pick up the van at the rental place. They didn't have one...so they gave us an Expedition instead. Bad because there isn't as much storage/luggage space, good because this one happened to have a DVD player in it. We made do with 2/3 of the back row laying down, where our luggage went. Mom sat in the single seat that was left over. All the way in the back by herself, poor thing. We left about 2:30, stopped once at a rest area, ran into several spots of traffic, and wound up getting down here about 8:30. Took about an hour and half longer than we expected it to because of traffic.

Good thing was we are staying at a Fairfield that has a wireless connection, and Cherie brought her laptop, which allowed me to blog it up tonight...instead of trying to remember on Thursday what we did on Sunday. Hopefully I'll get to use it again the next two days.

Llano Update (Cheeto's Brood)
The boys did pretty good. Because the Expedition had the DVD, they were able to watch movies most of the time. If it didn't, we would have been in trouble because the battery for our portable DVD player is only good for about 2.5 hours. They did pretty good, but got kind of loud and grouchy the last hour.

Arellano Update
Forgot to mention this little tid-bit. Dad got a speeding ticket on Wednesday night as he was headed to meetings at the church. 55 in a 35...but since he hadn't had a ticket since '89, the cop dropped it 10 mph and said it wouldn't even go on his record...$110 later.

Christensen Update
Finally got to see Ryan, Bart & Cherie. Caught up with them at the hotel about 8:30. Ordered pizza and talked until about 10:30. Ryan had some pretty incredible pictures of the aftermath of Hurrican Ivan from last year. I had no idea it was as bad as it was.
Daily Report
LAST NIGHT:
Sleep: 11:30 - 6:30 - I wanted to try to sleep in until 7:30, but I couldn't for some reason...excited to go down to Atlanta, I guess

TODAY:
Breakfast: 1 bowl of frosted flakes

Lunch: bean, meat and cheese burrito's on corn tortillas, coke

Dinner: Papa John's - two pieces of ham pizza, one piece of pepperoni pizza - sprite