rachel's continued ramblings

We managed to escape further storms overnight, but stuff was still very wet: beds, towels, bathing suits from swimming in Nashville on Friday.... we needed to dry out and the weather wasn't cooperating. We all woke up grumpy on Sunday morning. Things didn't improve when Layla and I went to take showers. The shower heads just sprayed everywhere. There was no way to turn them on or adjust them at all without getting totally soaked. And so my pajamas and my Birkenstocks were drenched before I even got in. I also had to stand the entire time on my tip toes to keep from getting fully sprayed in the face the whole time. It did not improve my mood.We did, however, get torn down and loaded up earlier than planned!! We wanted to leave by 9, since we were going to church in the city at 10, and knew we would have to find street parking that would accommodate our van and trailer. We pulled out at 8:45. A true miracle. We drove in and immediately found parking. We were ready at 9:05. And th...

Saturday morning, we checked out of our hotel room and loaded everything back in the van and got hooked up. Apparently, our trailer left a dent in the parking lot. Not sure what that was about.    We had breakfast at Starbucks and then drove to our campground just outside of St. Louis, in Granite City, Illinois. We got things set up just as a storm was rolling in. We decided to hope that the storm had already been through St. Louis, so we headed into the city. The drive there was a little sketchy and we had to pull over a couple of times because it was raining so hard we couldn't see. But, when we got there, it seemed to be done raining and we were able to park and do some sight seeing. We went to visit the Arch. We weren't able to go up in it because it was sold out for the day, but we went downstairs to check out the free museum. It was really awesome. Lots of interesting displays and information about the history of the area. Layla did some conditioning and Micah paddled a ...

This post will catch us up! Yesterday was a full, fun day. We packed up our stuff and cleaned out the trailer (highly necessary after 2 full days in a "primitive" campground with lots of dirt. We drove to Nashville, where we checked into a HOTEL!!! We unloaded our car and brought our cooler inside so we could get everything into the fridge. We also had some lunch. Sort of. We had limited options since all of our non-refrigerated food was in the trailer, which we were not going to open up in the hotel parking lot. So we had some deli meat and sliced cheese, carrots and apples. There was a microwave, so Dave decided to warm up a sausage for himself and some bacon for Micah. However, we didn't have any plates or paper towels or anything, so he improvised with a glass. Then we drove into town to visit the Country Music Hall of Fame. It was fun and interesting to see all the things, but again, not worth the cost. We walked around saw a little bit of the sights in town, but it ...