Sorry, no new pictures. We made it to St Louis about 1030 PM (before the time change) so actually 1130PM and by the time I had my shower it was probably closer to 130AM before I got to bed. After Church we went to a Science museum for a short time before heading home. We intended to go to the zoo but both parking lots were full and people were walking over a mile for curbside parking. We decided if the parking was that hard to find we didn't want to deal with the crowd that all those cars brought. I would have to spend more time watching my children than looking at the animals.
Jolene keeps saying she doesn't want to go home, she wants to stay at another hotel. (No Thank You) If it wasn't for today being Sunday and needing to get up for church we probably would have pushed through till we got home just to be there. At this point we have approximately an hour to our house, Lord willing.
Some things about Texas that stood out to us are: speed limits on main roads are 70 during the day and 65 at night. This includes roads like 604 in Ohio or 91 in Illinois. They have large shoulders for slower moving vehicles to move over and let others pass.
McDonalds in Texas know what "Spicy" means. Up North you order spicy chicken and can't tell much difference from the regular. On their dollar menu I ordered 3 double-cheese burgers and 3 spicy chickens (children weren't with me to ask what they wanted)! I ended up eating the chicken and feeding the buns with the fixin's to the children. One bite told me they knew what spicy really means :)
I can't remember if I said this earlier, but our children thought that every person that wore cowboy boots and a hat were real cowboys!
We drove through mostly run down communities. Houses very unkept and some falling in.
Texans are very proud of being Texans. Texas flags everywhere. Billboards advertised specifically to Texans. We bought Texas Shapes pretzels. The Lone Star on Interchange overpasses. I didn't take notes but these are some of the things we remembered.
That's it for the Texas Adventure 2007 unless something noteworthy happens in the next 20 minutes.
I don't know when I will be blogging again as I get to go back to turtle-speed internet and no long hours in the van to compensate.
Life at the Plattner Ranch. From the hum drum to the adventures, to our corny sense of humor, to my ramblings. Welcome to a peak at our world.
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