O'Rourke

Well, everyone had fun at the pool. The girls spent some time talking to some army guys, telling them how their Uncle Dan was an army guy. Allison & Meghan got a good night's sleep, but Cheryl wasn't so lucky between a fire alarm with a battery that decided to die at 1:00 am and Mackenzie tossing & kicking her the rest of the evening. Fortunately she was with it enough to put the fire alarm, and not Mackenzie, in the bushes outside the hotel door.

Took off around 9am, stopped for lunch at McD's but it was raining, so they couldn't get in any leg-stretching time or a zoo trip so everyon elected to press on to Dallas, Ga to visit an old college friend. Yes, Maren I called you old.

Pulled into Maren's around 3:30 or 4:30 depending on if you're on central or easter time. The kids got to spend some time jumping on trampoline and running off the willies. Yay!

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The girls x 4 made it all the way to Hattiesburg, Mississipi. They were only planning on getting as far as Baton Rouge, LA and then stopping to go to the zoo. But when they got there mid-afternoon, the M&Ms (Meghan & Mackenzie) were asleep in the way-back, and it was raining. So Allison & Mom decided to press on through and see how far they could get. They made it to Hattiesburg by dinner time, and found a hotel with a pool and something to eat. Hopefully a dip in the pool will burn off some energy from being pent up in the car all day. The dual-screen DVD player was a big hit.

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