We were in misery (Missouri) and now we're in pain (Payne, Iowa) :P

Jac's blurb,
Today we started our drive to Omaha and arrived at our destination very exhausted. I slept most of the car ride, but that's alright. Around St. Joseph, we had stopped at Starbucks(c) Coffee where I had gotten a Peppermint Mocha and Mom got a Hot Chocolate, like always. We had also bought two fudge brownies, both were disgusting! Mom's Hot Chocolate was bland and my Peppermint Mocha tasted off, as well. After we got back into the car we meaninglessly talked about the trip and starting a blog and such, well here we are! Later, we had stopped at McDonald's for a pee break and get something to eat...which sadly, also tasted disgusting. I was beginning to think that the further North we got, the worst it tasted. While taking our detours, the GPS device was complaining that we were off route, every 5 seconds. Mom thought it was annoying to have the voice on...I just thought it was hilarious. I also tried to chat a little before we got there, answering my friend's replies and to read e-mail. I had also tried to find a good template for the blog but none seemed to work.

Once we arrived in Omaha, we started lugging items up to the hotel. We received hot Chocolate Chip Cookies although my stomach refused to think about eating them. I sat down and thought, "Hey...we should take some pictures for our blog!" I rushed for my camera, hoping to be ready to leave and...what do you know! My camera is dead. So I opened up Microsoft Streets and Trips to find the closest grocery store, there were a few that didn't look so convincing so I went with a name I knew, Hy-vee. We navigated our way to Hy-vee and took a while to find Lithium batteries but we did. Now our clerk was a rude one! I was complaining that the sides of the boxes weren't even because it annoyed me. The old lady in front of us was complaining about her $90.13 bill and it was kinda like..."Get over it, Lady!" But I wasn't going to be rude. But apparently he had charged her for something extra so she was pretty annoyed. We finally checked out and continued our venture back to the hotel. It was pretty cold outside and Mom complained about someone taking her parking spot.

We're back at the hotel and I took pictures. Now I'm writing this blog. Now for Mother Dearest. :)



Mom's blurb,
Well, I'm glad to be at the hotel and not hearing Jacque's play by play of our "current location, speed and time of arrival" using the GPS or the "I think I have to pee, maybe not" ;-) Shortly after arriving, my mom called about the news today about Sprint Nextel's layoff/voluntary separation. For now, I'm not worried and will try to find time for some thinking about it or may not.

After letting Marc know we arrived safely, we headed to the Hy-Vee. As Jacque mentioned the cashier was rude and seemed more concerned with the time and closing his line even though the line was long. When the lady in front of us didn't think the total was correct -he basically replied, well, that's what it says it is and I can't print it until you've paid for it. The lady reviewed her receipt and noticed that he charged her too many times for an item, he looked at the receipt and said - well, you need to take it to customer service over there (which by the way, nobody was there).

Now, we're waiting for Phil from the Winning Edge to come by the hotel to get Jacque's skates (it's almost 10 pm). He is going to sharpen them for her and have them ready for us in the morning. She'll be able to skate on them some in the afternoon before the test session in the evening. Although, I'm a bit scared about getting her skates sharpened right before the test, Phil has been wonderful and will adjust the sharpening so it won't be too dramatic. It's not often that you get experience house calls and I've always had great service from the Winning Edge!

It seems to be a year of "firsts" for me - a few weeks ago I experienced my first taxi ride in Vegas and now I've written my very first blog!

I'm hoping to sleep well (with a little help from a friend - Ambien). It's going to be a long, long day tomorrow.


Pictures to come, promise!

Goodnite :)