7/26/24

Today was the day our vacation began. We have a Caribbean cruise planned in the next week and today and tomorrow we'll be going to New Orleans because that's where we'll be leaving out of. I'm really not sure of what I did today because I don't really remember, but I'll get the basic details.

I'm pretty sure I did nothing important throughout the day until we left. I probably just packed for the trip. So after I was done packing, my mom got home, and we were all ready, we left at around 4:00 PM. We went to Nana's before officially leaving just to check in on her and stuff. I sprayed for spiders upstairs because they've been kinda bad over here, and I almost died from the fumes of that spray. That stuff was lethal. But yeah hopefully they won't be as bad.

Then we left and didn't stop until we got to Sikeston, where we ate McDonald's. It was supposed to be Arby's but they were closed or something. But McDonald's was pretty good. I wanted to go to Walmart in Sikeston because it said they had Lego Minifigures in stock and I've been on a little kick of collecting them again. I know they're kinda childish, but they are fun things to collect. But we didn't go.

After leaving Sikeston, I don't think we stopped at all until the hotel. We did drive through Memphis and there was a little action there. My dad almost missed the interstate exit, but instead of just waiting for the next exit to turn around, he cut over and waited in between the exit and the interstate and got honked at. Janell made fun of him for that. And that'll be a trend, there was a lot of bickering between Janell and dad this trip. But yeah we drove through Memphis, I think we stopped at a gas station for a pee break a little after that, and then we got to Batesville, MS at around 8:45 PM. Before we went to our hotel we went to McDonald's again. This time it was actually my idea, though, because I wanted a McFlurry. It was a pretty good McFlurry. After that I convinced us to stop at Dollar General so that my dad could get some ankle socks, but what I wanted were Minifigures. I didn't think they had any, until we were leaving and they had some Marvel ones near the register, which is kinda crazy since those came out several years ago. But I didn't end up getting any. My dad did get his socks though.

Then we went to our hotel, a Hampton Inn, got checked in, and watched a mix of Griswald's Family Vacation and Men in Black, switching every time a commercial showed up. But it ended up being mainly Family Vacation, and Janell wanted to keep watching it even though everyone else wanted to go to sleep. I was kinda either way on watching or sleeping until my parents had her turn the volume all the way down, then it wasn't really worth watching. So I went to bed.

Today was pretty good, it was the start of a vacation, so that's always good. 7/10.