We're alive!

OMG, what a ride. We finally left the hotel yesterday morning around 10:17 a.m. 5.3 miles down the road the girls annouced that they were ravenously starving from lack of nutrtion and begged the "Mom dictator" for food.** So, I'm not sure if I can really cal 10:17 a.m. our departure time or not. Anyway, things were going well, it was 76 degrees, sunny, beautiful weather. As soon as we hit North Carolina, all h___ broke loose. It started raining, thundering, lightening. By the time we were in Tennessee, tornado warnings were all over the radio. They were in six counties all around us. The only problem was, we never knew which county we were in. So, I did the only thing I could, I instructed the girls to keep an eye out for funnel clouds and tell me if they heard a train coming. Meanwhile, I was looking for ditches to duck into. This went on through all of North Carolina, all of Tennessee, and into Kentucky, a total of about 5 hours. At one point the rain came down so hard and fast, you couldn't see anything in front of you. I wanted to pull off the road, but I couldn't see where it was, and I didn't want to get rear-ended. So I kept hitting the brakes in a SOS fashion, just so the cars behind me would hopefully see me. My hands were gripped on the wheel soooooo tight, they are still curled up today! Anyway, we finally made it to Louisville where we stopped for the night, and got one of the last rooms, a smoking room.... We didn't care.

Now, we're still trying to get out of our hotel. Millie has continued to turn a deeper shade of crimson. She's broken out in some sun blistering now. And, she refuses to get out of bed. I keep reminding them we have at least 7 hours left to drive today, and it's already 10:52 a.m. Of course, Sophi is all ready and packed up.

And now, Sophi would like to share a few thoughts:

Okay so heres what REALLY happend! we woke up at about 9:43 a.m and we spent a while gettting ready, of course I was ready to go in like 15 minutes and meanwhile mom is screaming at millie to hurry up and start packing! Once mom figured out that I was just standing there she asigned me to the hard working labor of carrying our lugage to the jeep-thingy mabobber...
EVENTUALLY, millie was ready and we were headed out the door. after about 10 minutes of driving me and millum relized somthing, we were ranevously starving from lack of nutrition and begged the "mom dictator" for food. We drove to McDonalds and of COURSE breakfast time there was over... Mills and I had McNuggest for breakfast...

Ho hum... drivin' down the highway, when... DUH NUH NUH Nuh.... mother spots a pottery store... *5 gajillon hours later* mother returns with lots of large unidenifiable objects wraped in white tisue paper, evetually mother relized the pain she had put us through, leaving us in an 80 degree car to roast. So we drove to a SONIC drive though and got slushies!!! YAY

rain, rain go away come again another day... *BOOM CRASH BOOM* lightning thunder, and eek! tornados. I braced myself to hold onto foofoo if the going got bad... during this time to keep myself entertained I looked up some of our names in Cherokee.
Amy-Eimi
Millie-Mili
Sophi-Sowi
Foofoo-Wuwu
Pippy-Wiwi.
(I also looked up foofoo's name in japenese it's *FU FU* hee hee)

after milions of miles of endless driving we FINALLY arrived at our hotel at about 11:23... only to be stuck in a smokers room.. Blech!
Everything is okay now moving slowly, and millie continues to turn red like a rotten tomatoe.



**That input was from Sophi