'Sup? [Heyy was getting boring.]

I'm sitting in the lobby of the nicest hotel we've stayed at so far. A Hampton inn. It beats the Days Inn in Perry, the Motel 6 and the other motels that we've stayed in along the way. I'm drinking watered down decaf coffee, and writing this letter because the wireless Internet doesn't reach up to our room.

It's on the third floor and the elevator is broken. It was fun lugging all of our stuff up the stairs, although I highly doubt that three flights of stairs compare to the Great Wall.

So last night, we stayed near Huntsville, right outside of it actually. Huntsville is home to one of the NASA space and rocket centers. We spent part of the day there, and it was AMAZING! I had been too the one in Florida [Cape Canaveral] when I was little, but I don't really remember anything about it. There was a museum there [I won't tell you about it. I think I was enough of a teacher in the last e-mail] and they also had a few rides there. We watched an IMAX about airplanes, and I've decided that I want to learn how to fly. It was amazing to see how planes moved like a bird without moving there wings. They talked about flying shows, where they do tricks, and although it looks easy, it isn't. It's actually really hard to preform all of those tricks because of the G-Forces and other things. And when they do the formations, there are A LOT of minor adjustments that have to be made to make it look right.

After we spent part of the day at the space center, we drove on to find a Friday's. There isn't one in Sarasota, and it's really good. I had found one online last night, but we decided not to go to it, but this afternoon, we figured we would. We went in the general direction to find the restaurant, and after a while of driving, we found it. It was worth the drive. I even booked our room online while we were there. Is there a public place WITHOUT WiFi? It never seizes to amaze me how many places have WiFi. 

After we ate, we got back on the road and drove for a while. My mom figured that there was only one restaurant that we haven't gone to. Dairy Queen. My dad was thinking that it sounded good, so we decided that we would stop if we came across one. We did, but my mom read the sign wrong and we got off at the wrong exit and drove for a little bit, until we figured that it wouldn't be too far from the interstate. It turns out that it was the NEXT exit that had the Dairy Queen. We stopped and got ice cream, and then hit the road again. 

My mom needed to stop at Walgreen's and we need gas, so we got off a while later, after battling the Nashville rush hour and accident avoidance traffic. [there was an accident during rush hour on the highway, so we took a HIGHLY confusing detour.] We went there and then a local chain grocery store called Krugers. It was like a Publix or Albertsons or Winn Dixie or [you get the picture]. 

We didn't stop for too long [for once] and then we hit the road again. We finally got to our hotel exit [I think Elizabethtown is nearby-for those of you who have seen the movie and our a fan] but before we could get to our hotel, we had to stop and get brochures about what to do in Kentucky. Apparently the Chamber of Commerce here is a bit more on top of getting brochures out to the general public. [longgg story] 

Apparently, there are quite a few caves in good 'Ole Kentucky. I have a feeling we'll be going to a lot of them. 

After we checked in, my parents went into the town to do laundry, but it was closed. We were laughing because in the dumpy hotels, they had washing and drying machines and mini fridges as well as microwaves in the room, but the Hampton Inn doesn't. What they do have are comfy beds and a nice hotel room. I'll take that over a POS hotel.

Well, I'm tired, like I am every night, and I'm gonna head back up to the room.

nightnight.

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Micah