Okay so random thought on my brain right now… I’m hungry. Looking at my food posts like y’all do, is making me hungry. That could be because it is noon and I haven’t eaten since breakfast and baby girl is yelling at me to eat mommy, eat!
Anyway thought I’d pop in and tell you about the accommodations that we had while we stayed in Memphis that one night. Hubby went online and found us a really good deal to stay at the Homewood Suites which is a Hilton property there in Memphis.
Typically they are set up for extended stay visitors so the rooms are set up more like a one-room apartment. Very very nice though! Our room had a fireplace and there was a note on the table that said that you could get one log free for it, from there they could be purchased. The living room had the couch, a chair, a television, and a small table and around the corner was the kitchenette which had a full-sized refrigerator, a stove, cabinets, sink, dishes, and even a dishwasher. (more…)
Friday afternoon, 2:50pm, class got over and I hit the door running. Usually I may linger, but not this particular day. I had places to go, people to see and more like it, people waiting on me. I took off to meet up with everyone so we could get on the road. Generally I don’t eat lunch and just eat dinner early, but hubby told me to grab a bite to eat on my way to JT & AL’s house. Things didn’t work out so well, so after I met up with them, we ran to Wendy’s and got Zebra Girl and myself a jr. bacon cheeseburger, then we were off to get Zebra Girl.
I was teasing AL that she had Van Coke. At first I was confused but she explained it was Vanilla Coke. Ok that makes sense 🙂 but the rest of the night we called it Van Coke.
We stopped at Poplar Bluff to grab a bite to eat and wound up eating at Dairy Queen then we hit the road again.
We stopped for gas at Sikeston and Zebra Girl started washing the windows since we had quite the bug collection going. Hubby and JT followed along behind her to make sure she got them off and the windshield was clean for AL to drive :).
Finally we pulled in to Metropolis around 11pm. AL dropped us off at the Super 8 and they went on to their hotel room at the Metropolis Inn. Originally our group stayed at the Super 8, but they changed for this trip. Sadly hubby and I booked through Hotels.com to work on a free nights stay and weren’t able to change hotels. No biggie, it was just down the road, probably less than a block apart.
Our home for the next 2 days.
When we walked in to the room, we were greeted with a nice little area. There was a table, microwave, refrigerator and the couch was a hide-a-bed.
The area between the “living” portion and the bedroom portion was the bathroom & Sink. There was also a hidden door that would close the bedroom off from the rest of the room.
We got a King size bed. I noticed that the tv in the bedroom portion was a flat screen and the tv in the living portion was an “old fashioned” box tv… lol.
We laid down and I’m pretty sure we were out the minute we hit the bed.
The next morning hubby got me up at who knows what hour and we got dressed and headed to the other hotel. Everyone ate breakfast at the hotel. There was Biscuits & Gravy, cereal and the white powdered donuts, coffee, juice and milk.
Then we were off. Metropolis is about 15 miles roughly from Mermet Springs.
Mermet Springs is an old query that has been turned into a diving attraction. That was our whole purpose for heading to Mermet Springs was an entire weekend of diving fun. Diving as in Scuba Diving. Oh and hubby and I were working on our first advanced diving certification of Wreck Diving.
We had a long day of diving. Around 5pm we all left and headed back to Metropolis. Zebra Girl fell asleep on the 15 minute car ride. Sadly hubby misplaced his shirt so he got to head back to the hotels shirtless. We later found it in his diving bag.
After we left the restaurant we headed downtown to get our picture taken with Superman.
I also noticed that there was a wall paying tribute to our military for our Freedom!
Then we headed to Dairy Queen there in Metropolis for dessert!! Yum!
Then we headed back to our hotels, hubby and JT pulled our Dive info off our computers and then we headed to bed. Sadly, someone thought it would be a good idea to be up and at their hotel at 7am the next morning. I’m sooo not a morning person so I think I might have been holding a grudge…. ya think? lol.
We all decided to head to Hardees for breakfast instead of the hotel breakfast on Sunday morning.
We found the size of tank hubby needs. They say as you become a more experienced diver you use less air for the same amount of time down, but for now, he could sooooo use a tank this size!
We grabbed a bite to eat there at Mermet and then hit the road around 1-2pm. I looked over and Zebra Girl was zonked out.
Once we crossed the Ohio River….
Hubby and I zonked out too.
Next thing I knew, I woke up to JT saying something and the Denali had died. Yup, we were 3 miles from the gas station outside of Dexter, MO and we ran out of gas. Yehaw. Luckily JT’s dad was in front of us so they ran to the gas station, got us a gallon of gas and brought it back to us. Not the best way to wake up :). Diver Girl had us taken care of!
Then we were closer Van Buren and we thought we might actually get rain. Turns out, it was just enough to spot up the windshield/car. Oh well.
At one of our stops along the way, we stopped at McDonald’s and Diver Girl thought it would be fun to put a straw on our antenna. That sucker road all the way to Springfield when we finally took it off.
We stopped in Springfield at Red Robin for dinner.
And finally got back to JT & AL’s around 9:30, helped unload the Denali and headed off for our house. It was such a fun weekend, but very short and very long at the same time… if you can make sense of that.
So Monday we had to check out of the Hampton Inn downtown and move to our hotel room over at the Sheraton Westport Plaza Hotel.
The Location was over near Creve Couer area of St. Louis. This was a very nice neighborhood with a lot of shopping and dining options around, also easy Interstate access.
One thing we definitely liked about this hotel is the elevators were much faster and never crowded.
Our room was on the 4th floor. It was a King size bed that also had a couch and a little sitting area.
Hubby and I had plans to head to St. Louis on Monday, however, as a last-minute decision, we decided to head up on Saturday. We went to TB’s birthday party and then headed out toward St. Louis. St. Louis may not have been our original planned trip, but I’m sooooo glad we went there. You’d be surprised what this city, that feels like it’s in my back yard (about 4 1/2 hrs away), has to offer. It was amazing and crazy!
I just so happened to catch my birthday… 7:30 at night with the outside temp at 83 degrees. 7/30/83 🙂 (more…)
Tbug came to stay with us last week for a few extra days. It was a lot of fun and very exciting. Now earlier this year, hubby got us all season passes to Silver Dollar City & White Water. Being the end of June and warm days ahead, we thought it would be fun to take off a few days from work and head to Branson and White Water. Hubby also decided it would be fun to stay the night down there and we’d bum around a bit to relax before our big 4th of July party.
Now the hotel we stayed at has meaning to hubby and me because this was the hotel we stayed at the first weekend we were engaged. We came down to Branson to watch Tbug’s cheer competition.
This is one gorgeous hotel. There are 2 pools, one outdoors and one inside. The indoor pool was heated. What!?!? Yup. There was also a hot tub. Man, that sucker was warm :). After spending all morning at White Water we went and played in the pool at the hotel. We were all kind of getting a bit red when we left White Water :). (more…)
And if Squirty is home, that means, she’s gonna have a baby! Yup! Our Mare got bred! Woopie!!
So we got the phone call on Easter Sunday that she passed the 24-day heartbeat check and all looked good. They knew we were picking her up after that so they gave us a call so we could make plans {something I’m horrible at… lol}
So Friday sitting at work I ran across Chell’s blog post about Oklahoma’s expected weather over the weekend…
Oh my gosh, really? We’re going to Texas. I’m not sure if you’ve looked lately but to get to Texas from Missouri, the most direct route is through Oklahoma. Oy! Luckily We go down I-44 to Big Cabin and down 69 Hwy which takes you through McAlester, Durant, etc. So we would be “bypassing” the terrible weather! (more…)
So Thursday morning was our last morning in Hawaii. It was a sad morning and I won’t deny, I might have pouted a bit even! We called down to the hotel desk and got a late check out of 1 pm (instead of what the normal 11 am?) since our flight didn’t leave until 6:30 pm and we were leaving for the airport around 4:30.
Then hubby, dad & I headed to the bus stop. Next destination, Diamond Head. (more…)
