Texas Trip - Day 7 & 8: Megan's Black Eye & Lots of Driving to get Home

While playing with a toy guitar, Megan accidentally hit herself in the face with the guitar.  It caused a bruise on the side of the face, close to her eye on the day it happened.  The next few days after it happened her eye got more and more black.  It is hard to tell on the pictures, but it was looking pretty bruised.  She was a trooper about it, and it didn't seem to bother her.

We woke up pretty early on Tuesday morning to get on the road around 6:00 am.  We quietly got ready and loaded up our car before saying our goodbyes to Nate and Amy.  We really wanted to beat the heat and get a good start on our extra-long drive.  

We decided to drive further on this day so that our drive the next day was shorter.  The traffic was good, and we didn't have any problems.  We stopped at a gas station that had multiple options for lunch.  We got some mini pizzas and Arby's food for us all to eat.  After eating we then drove the rest of the way to the hotel in Gallup, NM.  

We checked into the hotel and unloaded our stuff into our room.  We checked out the pool and saw that it was a pretty small pool, and the hot tub was out of order.  We decided to not go swimming and just go out to dinner.  Tony found us a Mexican type of restaurant that was very Native American inspired.  Tony got another Navaho Taco and liked it.  Most the food was decent, and we all ate our fill.  That night we enjoyed relaxing in our room and then Tony got us some ice cream for a treat.

We left that next morning fairly early, after eating breakfast.  I noticed I left my ring in the room about 10 minutes into our drive, so we had to turn around and go back to the hotel.  Luckily, I found it and we were then back on the road.  We decided to have a late lunch at a pizza place that we like in Utah County, so we just had to stop a couple times to use the bathroom and get gas.  The weather was crazy on the drive home.  Lots of rain, wind, and lightning.  The traffic was slow moving on the way home after lunch.  It was raining pretty hard and that really slowed things down.  But we made it home safe, and we unloaded the car quickly and were all happy to be home after a great vacation.