East coast trip: Day One

This is the first post of many of its kind to soon follow. Today we left to go on a huge road trip to the east coast. Over the next several weeks I will be making daily blog posts as to what I did, saw and learned that day. 

So! What I learned today was that you CAN fit five weeks’ worth of clothes, food, pillows, a guitar, plenty of books and stuff to do in the car, and three people in a minivan! I truly believe my mom has a super power of packing and fitting lots of stuff in little spaces. Now if only she would share that super power with me. J 

 The beginning of this trip is much different than any other I remember because our family generally tends to start off on a trip as early as possible, and today we had doctor appointments so we didn’t get started till around 3:00. Never the less we are all excited to be going on the much anticipated “East Coast Trip”.

Today was rather dull as far as the seeing things went. I saw a sea food place that was shaped like a boat, and sign with a red grand piano on the top and The Igloo manufacturing and distribution building. I also ate the most amazing Stromboli from Rome’s Pizza in San Antonio.  If you live there you MUST go. They have some pretty good lunch specials.

Well, we went through Houston and didn’t really see anything interesting. After that we went to Beaumont TX, and there we saw the world’s third largest fire hydrant that was used in the 101 Dalmatians movie. There where also all of the cute regular sized hydrants. These where infront of the Texas Fire Fighters Museum that had a memorial for the Fire Fighters that put their lives on the line and for the ones that gave their lives on that day. For all of you I am truly grateful.

We ended our day in Lafayette Louisiana where we found out that we really like  La Quinta hotels. We found this HUGE La Quinta here and when we walked into the room it look increadably clean and it smelled WONDERFUL. I could not be happier with the service we had. Overall it was a GREAT day.