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Today’s entry is written by Jessie. J

This morning I woke up to the sound of rain. At the beginning of the trip we had some pretty big storms but it had been sunny and hot for the middle part of the trip so this was a little unexpected.  For breakfast we had dry cereal with yogurt (which was plain so we all needed to add a little honey to our bowl except for dad who was saying, “It’s good for you!”) and English muffins that Kelli and Maddie very kindly made for us. There were some big lightning flashes that Katie tried to take pictures of halfway through the storm. No luck with that.  The thunder also made it sound like the world was going to explode any second, but it was still a fun thing to watch. During all that, dad showed me all the buttons by the drivers seat. The windshield wiper controller, the gear shifter, all the cruise control settings, the key that actually turns on the vehicle (I don’t think he should have told me about that one), and the pedals that make the car go and stop! After all these fascinating details, J, we headed out on the road. We didn’t make it very far before dad realized we were going the wrong way. We  only went a couple feet when we had to turn around and go the opposite direction to get going on the right path.

We drove a little while when dad saw a grocery store and we stopped to get some essentials; milk, eggs, toilet paper, and crackers for the hungry girls in the car. It ended up being a lot more than that but we loaded up for a couple days.   

Then we drove for about 2 ½ hours to get to Mobile a city where we had lunch and looked a round a teensy bit.  For lunch we went to Subway. Everyone had sandwiches except for me (Jessie) who had pizza. Dad was not very happy about this arrangement.  After that we went to the visitor center for Mobile which also had a fort that we got to explore. Mostly it just had weapons that people used in war. There was a lookout tower we stood in and looked out to the beautiful parking lot.