September 13; Day Thirteen

We made it here around 10:45 p.m. Left the house a couple of hours later than planned. Twice we got part way down the road and discovered we forgot something. The last thing we forgot was the blanket that Jessica packed all the yarn for, but forgot the blanket she had been crocheting. For some reason, Liz and I found this extremely funny.

We finally got on the highway about 3:30. About 4:30 we hit rain. It rained off and on up until about the last hour. At one point the rain was so hard, all the cars had their flashers on and we were driving about 30 mph. One area we were driving it wasn’t raining on us, but we could see clouds and rain all around and it was dark because of the time. One huge thundercloud in the distance was putting on an incredible light show inside the cloud. I could only glance over for a moment, but Jessica was enthralled with it. She tried to video it, but to no avail.

Road trips are always a lot of fun with the girls. We talk, we point out things; we listen to music. The best part about the music is Jessica has a wide variety on her ipod. The girls pass the ipod back and forth, each picking a song. We listened to music from Louie Armstrong to the Muppets to ZZTop. Pretty much anything in between.

We brought a week’s worth of food. This place has a full sized kitchen. It costs a lot to eat out; besides, we are vegan and eating out limits what we have to choose from. We like our own food. We pulled over to get gas, and Liz reaches into the cooler to get…..hummus. Stereotypical vegan food. She starts cracking up because to get to the hummus she had to move the fresh broccoli and corn. Who brings this kind of food on vacation?? Apparently, we do.

A little further down the road, we stop at a rest stop. Jessica and I step in to relieve ourselves and Liz stays outside to rescue the 20-30 beetles that are slowly drowning in a large puddle from the rain. A lady came out and said she wondered what Liz was doing. When her friend came out, she told her to be careful not to step on the beetles that Liz just saved from downing.

Believe it or not, we did not take an extra adventure, aka get lost, on our way down. We came straight here. The condo is on the third floor. Fortunately, there is an elevator because it took us three trips to bring all our stuff in. We are about to eat dinner. Yes, it is after midnight.

This place is amazing. I may not make it to the beach for the sunrise tomorrow. The bed is very, very comfortable. I might actually sleep well this week.

More tomorrow.