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Texas to Kentucky!!
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07/18/02
I made it back home. Mom
was very happy to see me. She told me that she had a surprise for me. I was
going to Kentucky for Breyerfest! She showed me the display she had made for
me to show off my souvenirs and all the places I had been. There was even a
rotating table so I could turn all around and show off the signatures I had
collected. WOW! I was so excited.
The next few days were
spent packing and deciding what to take and what to leave. Lots of stuff got
packed and unpacked then packed again. I think Mom was as excited as me. Once
she even lost the tickets and buttons for Breyerfest. She was in such a panic!
She was running all around the house looking for some little brown padded
envelope. I remembered that it was one of the first things she had packed and
told her I thought it was in her clothes bag. She was almost in tears when she
found it.
7/23/02
Today we finally left for
Kentucky. Mom, Dad and Andrea, who was a friend, all piled into the truck. I
got scared when I noticed that the truck was dragging something along. Andrea
told me that we were taking the horse trailer to pick up a horse on the way
back. It was an older thoroughbred mare that needed someone help. I was
interested from the word mare!
Dad drove the truck for
hours only stopping for necessities. We arrived in Mississippi late in the
night and stayed at Mom’s mothers house. I guess she would be my Grandma? We
left the horse trailer there and continued on in the morning. We made better
time now that we weren’t dragging the big horse trailer.
It rained all the way. I
couldn’t get out and take pictures of anything. We stopped in Nashville for
the night because Dad was getting really tired of driving that truck. I
don’t blame him! Andrea kept me company as we listened to a book on tape. It
was one of moms favorite authors, Anne McCaffrey. I liked listening. It helped
pass the time and the story was really good.
07/25/02
The next morning we started on the final leg of the trip. Andrea was as excited as I was, this would be her first Breyerfest and Lexington was now just hours away! We arrived in Lexington around noon. It was a very pretty town. We went strait to the Holiday Inn North and started to unpack. It was strange. Even as we were unpacking our stuff and setting up the room people would just come in. Mom said that is what people do here. I wanted to hurry up and go the Breyerfest but Mom said that it didn’t start till the morning. I would have to wait.
We
unpacked and started to decorate the room. Andrea really had a blast papering
the door and putting up the Christmas lights. I arranged my display table and
watched all the activity. Dad was busy on the computer setting up a temporary
Internet account.
Later
we left the room and “hit the halls”. Andrea had never seen anything like it
and was thrilled by all the different things available right out of peoples
rooms!
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