Playing the man.

Last Saturday was probably the hardest drive that I have had as far as I can remember. I have driven back and forth between Radford, Virginia and Chicago a few times by now. But this one was brutal. It all started the entire week before where neither Amy nor I got a lot of rest. Mainly for hanging out with the family until late and night, and Judah waking us up early in the morning. And to top it of we didn't hit the hay until 2:30-3 am Friday night. On Saturday we left at 7:30 am EST and visited Amy's brother Gary for an hour and a half. He is located in Grundy Virginia. This is about a two and a half hour drive. Then we drove to Chicago this should have been about a nine and a half hour drive but because we were so tired we made a whole lot more stops. And it took us thirteen and a half hours instead. The road just seemed to never end. We made a stop for a Redbox so that we had some new movies for Judah to watch. And when we got back in the car his DVD player wouldn't work anymore. Luckily I have a DC-AC converter in the car and was able to hook up our laptop so that Judah could watch those movies after all. Around 8 o'clock we wanted to stop for some food. Amy really had her heart set on Panera so we drove a few miles out of the way to the closest Panera. When we pulled up I got out of the car. It was cold and the wind was blowing. As I walk up to the door Amy takes Judah out of the car. While she does this the laptop bag blows out of the car (that is how hard it was blowing). As Amy bends over to pick it up she smashes Judah's head into the car window. As I get to the door I see that they are closed. We were still in EST and they close at nine we missed it by a few minutes. Judah is crying as I get back in the car, Amy starts to cry because she doesn't want anymore fast food. I ask her what she does wants and Judah says tacos. We cross the street to TacoBell. Amy and I both are so tired that we don't know what to order and let the lady at TacoBell decide for us. When we sit down Judah asks Amy for a hug and as she reaches around to give him one she knocks over his cup of ice water and spills it all over him. Now he is crying again I go out and get his a change of pants and we eat our dinner. What else can go wrong?

Any one who has ever driven with me at night knows that I dont do well at night. I jsut dont I just drive during the day and at night Amy usually does. I am known to fall asleep. So I choose to not drive at night or pull over when I get tired.

After we get out of TacoBell (9:30pm EST) Amy asks me if I can drive. "I will give it a try" I answer her "I might make it for two exits or two hours" I add. Amy puts in a movie for Judah and falls asleep and s does Judah. My eyes are burning becuse they are so dry. I realize that we have another three and a half hours to go and I need to "ply the man" and drive for Amy. I made it for two and a half hours. before I desided that I was starting to fight staying awake. I handed over the wheel and Amy drove the last hour.

I am probably bragging a litle about my "playing the man" but ask some one who knows my night driving and you will see that this was a breakthrough for me.