Day 13 - Are we there yet?

We ended up leaving Colby, Kansas around 11:00am as we thought we would. We had planned on driving as far as we could...possibly home. Those thoughts were quickly shattered as soon as we stopped for gas and a potty break around 1:30pm. We had our first real feel of the hot, humid, sauna-like air that we had been hearing so much about from everyone back home. It seems we chose a good week to be gone. When we got back into the Durango to continue our journey home we noticed that the only air coming out of the vents was HOT. Larry tried everything he could from inside to figure out what was wrong...we pulled over about 3 miles later and something smelled hot...it was obviously something to do with the AC...it was done, gone, we were able to "enjoy" that heat the rest of the day. What a dilemma...I thought we should pull over and find someone, somewhere to take a look at it and determine whether it was something that could be easily fixed. Larry thought we should just drive and drive and drive til we got home. He was dripping with sweat...it was nice!

We drove until we got to the Missouri border and then I started hearing talk of stopping. Larry had decided that maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to give the boys a break. They were troopers through the whole heat issue. We had the windows open...making it loud. We couldn't really listen to the dvd player without blaring it over the wind noise. However after a while we got used to it and made it work. We didn't hear a peep out of either of the boys until we stopped at 6:30. It could have been due to the fact that you couldn't hear what they were saying anyway. Maybe they just gave up on talking. We must have two of the best boys when it comes to traveling. I don't use "best" to describe them very often...so you have to know they were awesome for us today...of all days! When we stopped in Columbia, Missouri this evening Maddox finally asked Gavin why he was wet...he just noticed he was hot! Actually I'm not sure that Maddox is back to his old self yet. His little cheeks were red...from sweat...from fever...not sure! Either way he hung in there.

This evening we hung out at the hotel and swam again. Just think at this time tomorrow night we should be in our own bed. Ahhh! Anybody want to help unpack! We've had a memorable vacation for sure, but are ready to see our family and friends soon!