Today I woke up at 5:20, got ready, loaded the car, had a quick breakfast (breakfast burritos, cantaloupe, and apple juice), said good-bye to our wonderful cousins, and headed for good old STL at 6:20. Three hours later, in Burlington (still Colorado!), we got gas, went to the bathroom, stretched our legs, and were back on I-70 10 minutes later.
In Salina, Kansas, we had lunch at Wendy's. I had a berry-chicken salad with raspberry vinaigrette dressing, yum. It had strawberries and blueberries mixed in it! Grabbed a strawberry shake to go. There was a funny story that happened here, and I just HAVE to tell it because (hopefully) it makes you laugh. Okay, so we'd ordered and my mom and I were just having water with our meal. So we asked for two cups and headed on over to the soda machine. Normally, on soda machines, you either press and hold the button in for your drink, or push the cup up against a lever that distributes the liquid. The water had a button. So I stuck the first cup under, pressed the button, filled the cup, let off...and the flow of water continued to come! Well, I still had to fill the second cup, so I did that. Again, the water continued to flow out freely into the basin at the bottom of the soda machine...you know, where if there's ice cubes or spilled drinks it can go on down. So at least it wasn't gushing all over the floor! But a repeated series of attempts to shut the flow of water off (by shaking the dispenser, pressing a hand up against the flow, and punching the button from different angles and with different degrees of pressure) failed. Finally, my mom stepped back, waited a bit, and quickly punched the button hard. It FINALLY stopped! But then, after we got our food and went over to a table to eat, we looked back over and it was flowing out again! My goodness, we have such stories, and my mom and I were coming up with crazy headlines: MISSOURI PEOPLE FLOOD SALINA WITH WENDY'S WATER MACHINE: Cows stuck in mud, barns floating by in water, Missouri people say they couldn't do anything! It was so hysterically funny, we just laughed and laughed about it...especially Matthew. I am sure it was quite easy for him to laugh since he hadn't run into such a mishap. :)
Anyway, after that, we fueled up the car and drove straight on home (well, we did stop ONE short time for a bathroom break). Pulled in our gorgeous driveway at 8:15. I was so thrilled, so beyond words, that I got out of the car and immediately bent down to touch the ground. I was truly thankful to be home, with my whole family around me, in MY bed (my mom surprised me by putting monkey sheets on my bed...so cool), with everything around me. We did unload the entire car before having hamburgers and pasta for supper. I showered, happily crawled into my cozy bed, and fell asleep by 12 AM.
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