Monday, September 17, 2012

Day Six--On the Road with a Layover in Spearfish, S.D.l


Oh boy. Where do I even start?! Today was crazy! We got up around 9:30 and ate breakfast (well, Abbie and I did Bronny was sleeping), we worked on homework for a bit, Abbie and I got into one of our crazy fights, and we started to pack up the van. As we were sitting in the van waiting for Mrs. Wooley a strange man opened the passenger door and plopped down in the seat. We didn’t really know what to do, but we had a very nice conversation. He was a very nice man for being so strange. Bronny made him a peanut butter sandwich with her sandwich making supplies she brought along and he went on his way. We were finally on the road! We stopped to get gas, and as we were leaving town we looked behind us to see a deer sprinting after the van. We had to slow down to merge onto the highway so the deer caught up with us and stared at us through the window. While that was a little odd, we continued on our way; needless to say we outran the deer. The rest of the car ride was rather uneventful. We pulled up to our hotel, found out that you have to lift the handles to open the doors and dove into our homework. Well, we at least started on our homework. After a little while we got bored. We decided to go down to the pool. Well, Bronny and I did. Abbie had a more creative idea up her sleeve. The pool is in an open area in the middle of the first floor. The balcony of the hallway that our room is in overlooks the pool; I know what you’re thinking “there’s no way Abbie would do what I think she’s going to do.” She did. Bronny and I went down to make sure the pool was directly under the balcony and then dare devil Abbie jumped. She didn’t even make that big of a splash! Swimming didn’t last long because some old people wanted to swim some laps so we left. After swimming we came back up to our room and Bronny decided to take a quick shower to get the chlorine out of her hair. Abbie and I are just chillin’ in the other room watching TV when all of a sudden we hear a blood curdling scream. Bronny comes running out of the bathroom in a towel and I got to see what was wrong. There was a snake. In the tub. From the drain. WOW. We called down to the front desk and they sent someone to rescue us from the snake. Finally it was about time for dinner; we headed over to Pizza Ranch to enjoy a nice lovely evening together, and now we’re back and I’m writing this blog.
HA! Just kidding. Today was incredibly uneventful. The only parts of that story that are true are—1.) Abbie and I fought this morning. 2.)You really do have to lift the door handle up. 3.) We started on our homework. And 4.) We went to Pizza Ranch for dinner. The rest of the day was kind of a blur. Homework, eat, drive, eat, drive, homework, eat, homework. Speaking of eating, I would like to inform everybody that today I ate an entire package of rice cakes, an entire jar of applesauce, and an entire pepperoni pizza all by myself. Be proud mom! We did get a pretty good start on all of our homework which is a good thing but we’ve still got quite a lot to finish.  
Well, that’s all for today. I wish the first half was more true than it was false. And the second half was less true than the first half was false. I think our day would have been significantly more exciting that way.
Until next time, 

Grace

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