We left the house about 8:45 this morning and after a quick stop at the post office to mail our tax return, headed straight to McDonald's for breakfast. Lisa called us before we got out of the drive through and said they were somewhere in McKinney and had already eaten their McDonald's.
It was a pretty uneventful drive. The girls talked for awhile, and then requested music.
Tabitha and Krysten were texting and discovered that Krysten was in Decatur at the Whataburger as we were driving through Decatur.
We met up with Danny, Lisa, Daniel, and Michael at a gas station on the other side of Wichita Falls. 
We all had a potty and junk food break and hit the road. We let Danny take the lead because he had a radar detector. We passed by an 18-wheeler hauling hay on the side of the road. He was surrounded by a fire truck and several police cars because his load of hay was on fire. At this point, we passed Lisa and Danny when there was a cop on the other side of the road giving someone a ticket. Danny slowed down, but Charlie sped up. Danny pointed him out, but Charlie kept on going. This started a race between Danny and Charlie and we got up to 100 mph going down the freeway. Lisa and I were talking to each other on 2-way radios and screaming. It was fun and scary at the same time.
We made it to Amarillo around 3:00, checked in, rested a little and headed to dinner. We didn't stop for lunch so we were all very hungry. We ate at The Big Texan. 
Home of the free 72 oz steak (if you can eat it in an hour). That sucker was huge. 
Our waitress was an idiot, but the food was good. 
The boys got free hats with their meals. 
We enjoyed the gift shop and we were very thankful we went early because the line to get in the restaurant was out the door when we left. Lisa and Danny dropped Tabitha and Katie off at the mall. They were headed back to the hotel to have some alone time on their 17th wedding anniversary. We took the boys back to our room. We decided to walk to the movie theater behind the hotel to see "Wild Hogs". When it was time to go to the movie, the girls called and were ready to leave the mall. We couldn't send Lisa and Danny back to pick them up, so Charlie went. We had to go to a later movie. The theater was packed and we had to sit on the 2nd row under the screen. It wasn't comfortable, but the movie was hilarious!!!
We walked back in the freezing cold to the hotel. Lisa and Tabitha were jumping on our bed.
Apparently, this is their wide awake time. We visited for a while and then Michael wanted to get online to play Runescape. Just a lazy evening in the hotel room.
We were awakened at 2:00 am by screaming girls and slamming doors. The teenagers next door apparently had no adult supervision. We discussed what to do... bang on the wall, call the front desk, scream at them through the wall... finally Charlie got up and went over and knocked on their door. They didn't answer, but they looked through the peep hole. This got their attention, because there was no more noise after that.
Peaceful sleep...
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