Road Trippin'

So it's been a while, so let me update you on a few things that have been going on, let me start at the beginning so I don't confuse myself and get ahead of the story. So as some of you know by now Minot AFB is probably not the best AFB we could have come to but it was the states so we took what we can get, and to be honest hearing Logan wouldn't have to be deployed half as often, had a nice little ring to it. So this summer so far has been sorta sucky, there's been lots of rain and clouds, so much the little town of Minot ND has flooded, the river got so high they had to evacuate people form their homes. Now it's gotten to the point that the main road is only open during certain hours and well everything is closed. Now there is a boil order for all of Minot, people are out of their homes and now we all have to worry about getting poisoned from the water. My heart is with all those who have lost there homes and I truely feel for them but it's putting a depressing dark cloud above us. Literally!


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So Lindsay & I had started talking about how we just needed to get out of here, not only because  of what was going on but it was really putting a damper on all of us. We had decided to plan a trip for the 4Th of July weekend, we decided on Minneapolis, to see the Mall Of America.Unfortunately our friends couldn't join us, but we decided to go anyway. So on our way there everything was going great until there was a severe thunderstorm in the area. We were only 50 miles out of the Twin Cities when this hit, then it got worse! 65mph winds with golf ball sized hail, uprooting trees and the chance a tornado was about to hit the ground! I thought I was going to literally get swept away by this tornado. Scary stuff, there's not much I'm afraid of but natural disasters like this I definitely am! So we finally made it & it was like the bright light at the end of the tunnel, not being able to use the sink water to brush your teeth was starting to be a big pain in the ass, it felt like such a  relief to be away from all the craziness that was going on in Minot! So we decided we wanted to eat, we checked in on base and headed to the Mall Of America

 
Since we had been driving for so long we just wanted to get some food and go back to the room to sleep , so we hit up the Rain forest Cafe, which was pretty good, but to me not worth the price, except for that monstrosity of a dessert we got! So we headed back the next day & got to do one of the things I was looking   most forward to, which was Sea Life. Walking through a tunnel of sea life being able to see sharks that close was amazing! The pictures we got don't give these things justice! It was so cool besides the crowds the mall wasn't too bad there was a lot of construction going on, on the lower level of the mall so it was a little crazy.

So after about 3 hours of being in the mall we did the Nickelodeon Universe  and when we paid for the wrist bands, we were told Ali was tall enough for almost all the rides so we paid the extra to get the other wrist band to ride all the rides and well yea we snuck her on one roller coaster  and after that it was nothing but kiddy rides and a lot of "she's not quite tall enough!" Really she was a half an inch away from being tall enough you had to be 42" tall and she was right below the line. Damn! So about 8 hours of walking around I got a little bored and was ready to go do something else, I was done with the mall, I'm not a big shopper and well there wasn't much I wanted to look at. I know me saying that you're probably thinking I'm crazy, but I get bored of shopping pretty easily, I don't have much of any fashion sense and well I'm not in the shape I want to be in to be shopping so I didn't see a point.

So we headed back on Sunday even though he had Monday off and the trip was smooth sailing we didn't leave as early as I had liked ( both times) but we made it home safe and sound and in enough time to celebrate Josephs birthday ( he's an Independence baby) So after belching on lips & pretty much all of us drinking our lives away the 4th was the worst day ever!

So I woke up with a massive hang over and thought I was going to die! There was nothing that I could drink or eat to make me feel better so I slept, when I woke up I came down stairs and Logan had gotten a call from his mom saying that Grandpa Lemons was doing too good and he might not make it through the day. Later when he was out with Ali watching the fireworks he got the news that his Grandpa had passed. my heart is with my Lemons' family. So now it brings us to today, we're trying to get leave approved so that we can drive home in time to be there for his services and also be there for his family. Still waiting on the call, you know how the military works, its a hurry up and wait game to them. So I may be down south in the NM-AZ area later on this week, I just pray we get to go home so that my Lemon here can have peace of mind. 

R.I.P Grandpa Lemons 

We <3 you!