Road Trip Day 13

So, we left St. Louis at 8:30 am. We were supposed to leave Monday morning, but decided we wanted to get home a day early. I had a little light spotting on Saturday and wanted to be home to call the doctor right away Monday morning.

This was our second stop. We stopped at a travel plaza for postcards and they didn't have any..... what is up with that??? They really should. We loved this place and spent at least a half hour walking around and browsing the gifts they had.

Driving through Missouri we ran into lots of wind and some rain. We also ran into 2 idiot drivers. I passed a van whose driver was too busy talking and laughing and swerving all over (I think partly due to the wind but not sure). I had a car on my rear end the whole time and by the time I passed I was pissed. I put my blinker on to get into the right lane and the car went around that way and flicked me off, then the car behind them did too!!! Boy was I mad, and horrible language just spilled out of my mouth. I was trying to get over.... but I flicked them off as they passed too, so yeah. I was going 70-72 mph (speed limit was 70) and after a few minutes we didn't see them in front of us anymore. If I had gotten thier license plate #'s I would have called them in, that was an accident waiting to happen.

In Iowa, it got even windier. At our supper stop for gas, bathroom, and Subway, it was hard to get the car doors open and we saw paper towels from the gas station across the street blowing across the road. We had to slow down to 55-65 mph (from 70) so that took a little time. As I left the station I tried calling V and my phone shut off. When I tried to call back I got the message CDMA service not available Never got that before and mom tried her phone and it did the same thing, so we were without service for a good 20-30 minutes.

N wanted to find the pot of Gold at the end of the rainbow. He told me to just drive through the grass to go find it. It was a beautiful rainbow.

This was the stormy sky that we saw all around us during our drive. It took us 14 hours to get home, and by the time we got home we all crashed. It was a great trip and we are going to average the miles we went and the gas cost and miles that my car gets on gas. We are already planning out next trip!