Yep, just a traveling fool! Mom and I are with Poppa Mac on the way to New Jersey! The Army came and packed up most of his stuff but his "essentials" still fill a fairly good-sized U-haul trailer that we are now dragging behind his truck. The trip didn't start out too well.... we landed in Dallas on Friday, laden with camera equipment and a small suitcase with our clothes, and were prepared to wait a few hours for our ride to arrive. Bad luck for us, Poppa Mac had to go to the emergency room for his feet again and did not get out of El Paso like he was supposed to so....... we ended up grabbing a shuttle and heading for a hotel just off the airport. We were supposed to wait there and we thought it was only until that night but unfortunately it didn't turn out that way and we were there until Sunday morning. Sigh. it was a really nice hotel room but after that many hours it got a little boring. Mom read and slept and walked to Dennys for dinner but she wouldn't let me go with her. i watched a lot of TV but there weren't that many good channels... no E! or Disney so I got bored. Mom and I watched the drag races, we LOVE that... we sent text messages to Grampa but he had his phone off so he didn't answer us. Of course, chances are he would not have answered us anyway! I had a scary moment though, when my friend Ashley had her car explode during qualifying runs.... she was OK though... whew! Kinda sad that we don't get to go back to the Nationals this year, but maybe next year!
So we are driving... we made it into Tennessee last night, Mom had a big scare though, she totally thought she had left her BlackBerry and her wallet in a bathroom in Arkansas but it turned out that she had put it down in the back end of the truck to wash the windshield and had forgotten. I am not sure what made her feel more stupid, the thought that she had left it in a bathroom or the finding it in the truck. Pretty crazy. I kind of thought it was funny 'cuz if she had left them in my shell where they belonged then she would not have lost them. What? She didn't think I might have had to go to the bathroom too? Of course it wouldn't be the first time she had left a phone in the bathroom... she did the same thing in the Dallas airport the year she went to Summit with Brion and Connie... she figured it out when she got on the airplane... she is SO lucky that they let her off to go get it, and that it was still there when she got there. She will never learn.
Anyway... we tried to go to Graceland this morning but found it to be a bit on the expensive side since we aren't really Elvis fans. It was cool though, I had my picture taken with a little blue Elvis Ty beanie baby. Too funny. Poppa took a picture but I can't quite post it yet, but I will try later. Anyway.... we are trying to get to Roanoke, Virginia tonight... we are listening to the Harry Potter audio book while we drive.... we have an ice chest full of food in the back end and it seems to be going well. Mom is pretty excited... as soon as we drop of Poppa Mac's stuff we get to go to Maine for the wedding and that should be pretty awesome. None of us have ever been to Maine before and the pictures should be awesome. Plus after the wedding Mom and I are going to go to see Aunt Sandy in Baltimore for her 40th birthday. Party, party, party. Then it is back to Washington and Mom has to go to work. Yep, she actually got a job again so she is pretty excited about that =) Ok... nothing too exciting here, but just wanted you to know what was going on. See you all soon! Peace out my friends!!
Good to hear from you it's been a long time.
Posted by: gramma | August 26, 2009 at 04:50 PM
A.J your writing improves all the time. You are a traveling fool. I will be glad to see you and mom return soon. Mostly Mom of course. Thanks for update.
Posted by: eric | August 28, 2009 at 04:55 PM