Day 1: Alabaster, AL to Oklahoma City, OK

We rose at the painful time of 4:15am in hopes that we could shuffle the kids into the car and they would fall back asleep.

No such luck.  They were far too excited about the adventure.  We stopped for a quick breakfast and watched the sunrise.


We stopped in Memphis to let the boys see the Mississippi River for the first time, and run off a little energy.  At 9am it was already ridiculously hot, so everyone returned to the car without a struggle.

We listened to some Elvis and got them all caught up on his history, right up until Walker starting asking questions about what happen to him and if he was in heaven...umm...well...let's turn up that music.


We stopped in Shawnee, Oklahoma just before arriving at our hotel.  We had an average hamburger in an neat old diner that used telephones for ordering and walked around an old train station.  Just what we needed, but still blazingly hot.

We made it to the hotel just outside of Oklahoma City and took a dip in our private pool (okay the hotel pool, but we did have it to ourselves).


Then we tucked everyone in bed and called the 16 hour day a victory.


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