Saturday, May 28, 2011
Reflective roadtrip
First, this is a disclosure about very possible and obvious typos, as it is 9:42 PM and we are smack dab in the middle of the Smokey Mountains. We are 3/4 of the way through a 2000 mile trip to Hilton Head, which was squeezed into a 3 day weekend. That sounds insane, I know, and believe me, we will likely never do this again, but we would also not trade the craziness of this weekend - not the 4 days in the car in a row (7 hours each day), not the extra miles on our new car, not the tiredness that will certainly ensue come Tuesday morning, and not my spider webbed phone screen (rocks amd glass don't mesh). It also appears that Keeton lost his new iTouch somewhere along this journey. The reason we made this trip was to see my grandpa who can no longer travel, who hadn't had the chance to meet his newest great grandson, yet. So, my whole family found a way to get to him, and while it was sad to see him looming so frail, his face was worth every minute of this weekend's journey. He said he would have waited his whole lifetime for the surprise he got to see us all there, which actually hasn't happened in almost 4 years. Unfortunately, less than 4 hours after we left, he fell and broke his hip, so please say a few prayers for him. He was already down in the dumps, so I am just hoping that maybe the joy this weekend brought him will sustain him through surgery amd recovery.
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