Vacation Tuesday

Tuesday, we decided to take a trip to Salem. It was about 1/2 hour away. Molly had to stay home and work. As it turned out she was probably better off staying home anyway. We had to take 2 cars. Mike, Isaac and Mark in one car and Lance, Nathan, me and the GPS in the other.
We started out looking for a camera shop for Lance. The farther we got out of the city, the closer we got to our address. There were fields on both sides of the road, dotted with houses along the way. We saw no sign or indication of a camera shop so we decided to skip that stop.

Our next stop was lunch. We were much more successful finding Wendy's than we were with the camera shop. Isaac ate his chicken nuggets and most of Mark's and some fries. Mark and Nathan ate fries. Then it was off to the pet store which was across the street.

I wanted to look at exercise equipment and try to decide what I want to buy for my house. The GPS said that there was a Sports Authority near by. We turned at the McDonald's and started looking. We could not find it. Mike said that when they drove by McDonald's, Isaac said, "Is dad still hungry?" Then we ended up back at the Wendy's where we ate. Again Isaac commented if dad was still hungry. We went back to where we had been and once again when Isaac saw the McDonald's he asked if dad was still hungry. We finally found the store around to the back of where we had been. As it turned out, they didn't have much equipment and no one wanted to help us. I was too tired to care anyway. We had talked of going to the state capitol building, but I had already had too much fun for one day and suggested we head for home.

Mike missed a turn that we made so we waited for him in a parking lot. A nice man pulled up beside us and told us that we had a low tire. We were lucky to have a service station close by and headed to it. Lance put air in the tire, but the tire was so wasted that it leaked out almost as fast as Lance put the air in. I felt blessed that we were able to change the tire at the gas station instead of along the side of the freeway. By now I had certainly had enough fun for one day and was very glad to get back to Lance's house.

Poor Nathan felt left out because he was stuck with dad and grandma instead of grandpa. Then when he saw his big brothers and grandpa going into the store, and he was stuck with g-ma, he really was NOT happy. He kept calling for g-pa. Poor picked on little guy.