Family vacation extravaganza journal #1

We left Fresno on Friday for Dallas, Texas to visit my mom's mom and sister. We stopped by to see Mandee and to pick up some drinks before heading out. I had a grande mocha frap with no whip. (I found out that a regular grande mocha frap has 14 grams of fat, but if you get no whip it's only 3 grams of fat. Isn't that crazy? The whipped cream has 11 grams of fat....11!!!) We drove until we got to Barstow and stopped to fill up our gas-guzzler with gas costing us $5.59. We filled up half a tank for $74... it was sickening. But the good thing was the farther away we got from California the cheaper gas was. I think we got to $3.98 or something like that. In New Mexico we drove through a thunder storm and I got to see real lightning. Lightning in Fresno is just light flashing. I actually got to see real lightning bolts. They scared me at first, but they are SO cool! Lightning is now my favorite part of nature. It was lightning side ways! It was crazy! Anyways...We ended up getting all the way to Albuquerque, NM. I've never like Albuquerque ever since I went there on a mission trip and stupid Hopper took us on a ghost tour that was incredibly lame, but I could not sleep that night. I was so scared. It was terrible. I had to wake this girl up so I could turn on the tv to comfort me....I was so embarrassed but I really had no choice... Anyways, we stayed at a tiny cheap motel and left early the next morning. I have noticed that every stop in Texas has a Sonic, Dairy Queen, Bennigans, McDonalds, and Whataburger. Grandma says that Whataburger is pretty good... we'll have to try it. My parents were tired of driving so I drove for a while and I drove right into another thunderstorm. I was really scared because the rain was super hard and then it stopped. And then more super hard rain...and then it would stop. My dad made me drive in it anyways... We got to Vernon, TX and stopped to get something to eat, but we kept having to backtrack because we couldn't find anywhere to eat except for some Charlie's Catfish shop or something. We finally found Taco Casa and it is now my new favorite. It was terribly dirty and really cheap, but it was SO good. Better than Taco Bell.... I know...it's crazy, but better than Taco Bell. After dinner and a little more driving, I was adjusting my seat and moving the DVD player for Halle and slipped and jammed my toe into the slider thing where the passenger seat slides to adjust the seat and oh my goodness! I had like skin hanging off and it jammed my toenail into my toe and so I have a split nail and a blister thing that hurt like none other. So we wrapped it up in what we had....one of my dad's white tees. After that fun-ness, we went to Dairy Queen. I ordered a Peanut Butter Parfait and I got a Peanut Shaving Parfait. You know the papery stuff on the outsides of a peanut? Well my parfait was ice cream, hot fudge, and peanut shavings....kinda gross cuz you can't really chew those very well. So while my whole entire foot continued to throb, we drove to Balch Springs, a city on the Southeast side of Dallas. We got there and my toe looked bad, but it was ok. We get settled in and went to sleep. This morning we unpacked and are waiting for my overdramatic aunt to bring me a cane and ice pack. Yes, I'm serious. My mom told me to use the cane in front of her and act like it hurts...;) I really don't care if you people reading this don't care about my trip, I need a friend to vent to....ah...Blogger.