Ok, I'll try to give brief descriptions... and breakdown the timeline for you.
Aprox 12am Fri/Sat - Here we are just getting ready to leave... after the most horrible radio install ever that caused a whole mess of issues, we finally finished everything and loaded up the car for the trip. This was about 15 minutes before I ran out of gas....
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Once we ran out of gas too far from home to walk, but not far enough to reach a gas station with two toddlers... I had to call for help. They were in bed about 30m away from me. So I waited. The arrived with a gallon of gas, dumped it in and sped out of there (not in a good mood) and left before I actually started the car... the battery had been dead from the emergency flashers so I had to call them back and they had already made it far enough out of sight where I could no longer see them, but I sure heard the tires screeching... once I got the jump, we were on the road again. On our way out of town, I stopped at walmart to pick up a new video camera (and spent way more than I should, but I have needed it for quite some time for the house and the band). We also decided to grab some last minute snacks.
An hour and a half down the road, I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer... I hadn't slept the night before and I didn't want to risk it with the girls so we stopped at the I80 truck mall and I napped for a couple hours. We woke up about 7am and went inside for some Wendy's breakfast. The girls were not thrilled about being woke up and drug into the cold air... but once they smelled food, I was forgiven.
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It was rainy for the rest of the trip and rather uneventful.
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Once we got to Omaha, I called Brandon for instructions… they hadn’t made it to Kenney’s yet and I was sitting in a Menard’s parking lot so I decided to take the girls inside to change clothes in the bathroom and get cleaned up. I also took the time to pick up some butt connectors and stuff to wire up Brandon’s headlights. (which I spent the money on and we never got around to doing it, lol… but I’m not complaining – a car enthusiast can never have too many butt connectors and spades and stuff!) When we got done inside we headed back out to the car to snap a few shots in the daylight. It was really my first time seeing it in the daylight since we did all the work on it the night before.
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Then, we finally met up with everyone else… I wanted to take pictures, but I couldn’t focus… when I saw all the Eagles pulling in I just froze! It was amazing… then we all took off to Kenney’s and hung out, I think everything has pretty much been posted on that part. The girls got to go for a ride on a golf cart and they are still talking about, lol! Doug, Nathan, Hawkeneagle(Ches) and I worked on my ignition upgrade and then we decided it was time for food… but first… a photo op with the Eagles! Woot!
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And let me note that I gave Jim a VERY hard time because he absolutely refused to throw up the horns for the ANNUAL "horn pick".... finally, I get him to do it - even though it was like bunny ears on me, I was ok with that because he did it. Now, here I am looking at the photo and I am just floored to find that after all the argueing and considering that this is year THREE for this annual picture that i ask for at every meet... BRANDON AND JESS WERE IN LALA LAND AND NOT PAYING ATTENTION AND DI NOT THROW THE HORNS. YOU TWO WILL PAY FOR THAT NEXT YEAR. MARK MY WORDS! MUAHAHAHAHA THAT'S JUST WRONG! Brandon, I will forgive you (but never forget) since you hosted a great Meet... and Jesse... I will forgive but never forget for you as well, but we better work something out for that truck. :P
And some more shots on the drive to the yummy Mexican Restaurant!
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And on the way home… we stopped at the I80 truck stop again
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