Lost!
Yesterday was Matt's (one of our staff) last day at the Ranch. He had asked me to run him to El Paso that night and I agreed not knowing we were going on an adventure. I should have known though because that is always life with Matt.
Anyway we decided to go through Juarez and cut across into El Paso to miss the line that is always at the Fabens border on Sundays. We had what we thought were good directions. Well we got into El Paso, and we took what we thought was the right turn and proceeded on our way looking for the McRae exit. We were deep in the middle of conversation when I realized we had been driving a long time and had seen no sign of that particular exit. We called his buddy who had given us the directions and he assured us we were going the right way, so we continued driving. It was not until we crossed over the state line into New Mexico that I realized something must not be quite right!!!! Turns out his buddy had thought we were coming from a different direction. I have never laughed so hard as when we made a u turn and saw the sign saying "Welcome to Texas." I joked around with Matt who is from North Carolina that at least he could say he visited Texas, Mexico, and New Mexico. At around 10:00 PM we finally found his friend's house after driving around for 3 hours (that also included a meal stop). I told him we should have just kept going and had a second vacation in Las Cruces!
Anyway I am back in the middle of the daily grind. Today is my day to go to Sams and buy the groceries for the Ranch. I also cooked breakfast for the kids this morning and have guard at lunch. It is a busy day, but I'll feel like I really accomplished something at the end of it.
Gotta run,
Erin
Anyway we decided to go through Juarez and cut across into El Paso to miss the line that is always at the Fabens border on Sundays. We had what we thought were good directions. Well we got into El Paso, and we took what we thought was the right turn and proceeded on our way looking for the McRae exit. We were deep in the middle of conversation when I realized we had been driving a long time and had seen no sign of that particular exit. We called his buddy who had given us the directions and he assured us we were going the right way, so we continued driving. It was not until we crossed over the state line into New Mexico that I realized something must not be quite right!!!! Turns out his buddy had thought we were coming from a different direction. I have never laughed so hard as when we made a u turn and saw the sign saying "Welcome to Texas." I joked around with Matt who is from North Carolina that at least he could say he visited Texas, Mexico, and New Mexico. At around 10:00 PM we finally found his friend's house after driving around for 3 hours (that also included a meal stop). I told him we should have just kept going and had a second vacation in Las Cruces!
Anyway I am back in the middle of the daily grind. Today is my day to go to Sams and buy the groceries for the Ranch. I also cooked breakfast for the kids this morning and have guard at lunch. It is a busy day, but I'll feel like I really accomplished something at the end of it.
Gotta run,
Erin
posted by Erin @ 11:25 AM
1 Comments:
At 1:25 PM,
Feanor said…
New Mexico is a good place to go, I guess, just think of it as making memories that you'll never forget or something. Anyhow I enjoyed playing badmitten with ya on the 4th, good times, good times.
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