Travelogue: Day 2

In the morning B and I went and got breakfast; she chose cereal and a bagel. I got fruit and cereal for S and A. The breakfast room was quite crowded and a lovely couple offered to let us sit with them. I thanked them profusely but explained that I was with other people and we’d be dining in our room. After breakfast, we got on the road. DH had hoped that we would have at least been to Roanoke by the first night, and we still had about one hour of driving to get there, and three hours to hit the TN border. We hit the TN border at lunch time, so we stopped to grab Chick-fil-A, and pondered whether to get MIL and her DF a souvenir from the Bristol Motor Speedway (DF is a NASCAR fan). Our plan was to hit Memphis for the night, and it was 8 hours away; that’s a LONG day in the car. Yet another fabulous fast food dinner, this time from Burger King.

DH realized he could have his company’s travel agency make our hotel reservations for us, so we at least knew early that afternoon that we did indeed have a bed waiting for us at the Holiday Inn at the Memphis Airport (home to FedEx). Lucky for us, the airport closes around midnight or we’d have been answering S’s “Mommy / Daddy, what’s that noise?” every other minute. The best part of arriving at the hotel was that they already had the crib set up and waiting for us. The worst part? As the bellman was delivering our bags, A was loose in the room. He went into the bathroom, and decided to splash in the toilet. YUCK!! So the poor bellman had to wait for his tip while I disinfected A’s hands. BLECH!!;

Funniest thing to happen today: We were all tucked in our respective beds, falling asleep, when all of a sudden one of the kids let one rip. It was so loud, that an adult would have been proud of it! LOL! And B said something which made us realize it was our darling, dear, demure, younger daughter, S, who had farted. I was in tears I was laughing so hard, yet trying to stifle the laughter so I wouldn't wake up or wind up the kids. So the more I giggled, the more the bed shook, which made me laugh more. I suppose you had to be there, but it was really funny, especially if you were as tired as we were.