One Day

Well, as everyone knew, I was eagerly anticipating Tuesday this week because of our ValleyFair trip. I had been looking forward to it for about three weeks. It was nice to get out of this town, even for one day. It made all the difference in the world. It was my one day vacation and I needed it--badly. Of course I envisioned the entire day going smoothly, but something quite different occurred.
First there was the monsoon that we drove through to get to Sioux Falls. Then we suffered through Kayla's driving to the Twin Cities. During the insane driving, there was a brief respite in rain, a quick nap, a brief decision to cancel ValleyFair for the morning because of the grotesque thunderstorm, and then a unexpected trip to MOA. Once there, I finally got my Chipotle that I've been craving since January. After that, we finally made it to ValleyFair where I went adrenaline crazy.  If my feet wouldn't have hurt so much, I might have asked the gang to leave me there and pick me up in a couple of days. We stopped at Applebee's on the way home where some of the best jokes came out. My favorite being the one with Hitler and Barbie. I fell asleep for most of the drive home, but we had a lovely conversation about "Life is like..." and I'm very sad that I missed out on Kayla talking to her car "Milton" and Chris acting out the voice of the car.  I will admit I was a little freaked out when Kayla and Chris saw a UFO on the way home--twice.  That made for an interesting conversation on the ride from Sioux Falls back to Verm.

We drove again through rain and thunder and lightning and bugs and puddles that swallowed us whole. We survived Power Tower, Wild Thing, Steel Venom, Renegade, Thunder Canyon, and the $5 Family Dryer.  It will be a day to remember and to certainly to talk about next year.
Once allWild Thing!!! said and done, I still say Kevin and Ashley owe me about $50 for all the snogging they did on the trip though ;)