Road log, Day 1

In a first, I had a mostly as-planned day, working the morning and hitting the road this afternoon... EARLY. I didn't expect to get out of town until about three, but we were on the not long after one. We made it to Albuquerque after nearly eight hours of driving (about 9 and a half hours total travel time), which was mostly uneventful, though there was one rough patch, and the fact that I nearly went insane.

About five miles from the Texas border, Shelby had a nose bleed, which is exactly what I hoped would happen in a confined space with limited resources while driving 75 MPH (that's 120 KPH for my non-US readers). It passed pretty quickly, but Shelby is so melodramatic that its influenced lingered much longer into the trip.

I didn't get nearly as much sleep as I should have last night (big surprise), and was already starting to feel it, so I HAD to take a power nap (~ 20 mins) after we had dinner in Amarillo. Man did that help. I didn't have any trouble after that.

However, my nap made me more alert to what the girls were doing, which about drove me nuts. A few days ago I bought them the High School Musical DVD, which they'd been begging me to get for weeks, but I resisted until it seemed like a good idea for the road trip. Wrong. BAD idea. Obviously, it's a musical, and while with other movies they can watch with headphones and be fairly quiet, this particular flick had a sing-along mode, which they enabled, and they both sang every song quite loudly. As the movie had played on Disney channel a bunch, it was already practically memorized by them. And now that I've heard them sing it four and a half times through... I'm VERY tired of it, but it's all they want to watch, though I brought many other movies. Aaaaaaaaaaa!

The DVD player might have to experience technical difficulties tomorrow. I'm not sure I can take three to five more run-throughs of that movie.

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