Chase the sun till it runs out of sky...

Day 4: Houson to Amarillo (well, Lubbock)

We got a late start today. Everyone woke up to their respective alarms but went back to sleep because no one else was awake. We all got going around 10:00, which is an hour later than we had planned. We actually left Mark's house at 10:32, and at a random stop light on Clear Lake City Blvd, there was a flyby of two fighter jets. The Top Gun quotes followed almost immediately. We got onto 45 N and headed up towards Houston on our way to Dallas. We stopped off around 1 to get some postcards and other souvenirs. I was driving for this stretch of the trip. We got into Dallas around 3:45 and met up with some of Jenn's friends in Plano at this Italian ice cream place. She hung out with them for a bit and then headed on our way to Lubbock. We changed the plans up a bit and headed to Lubbock instead of going to Amarillo (Jenn had another friend we could stay with... Go Josh!). After leaving Plano, we got stuck in a traffic backup from an accident. We got through that, and in Denton, we got onto 380 which was by far the most beautiful road we have traveled on thus far. We were on this road for about 5 hours. Around 8:15, the sun started setting (I know, technically the sun starts to set at 12:01, but just roll with me here). It was BEAUTIFUL. We took a bunch of pictures and just sat in wonder at the beauty that was around us. It almost made me forgive Texas for being so boring... almost. The sun finally set behind the horizon around 8:45, but the light stayed until closer to 9:30 or so. We all decided that we should take a break and get out of the car and stare at the stars. Ironically, there was only one star out for the longest time (luckily this was before we went star gazing)... For those of you that don't know, Texas is the lone star state. Get it? You should... Anyways, we got back into the car and went through Post, TX around 10:40 and arrived at Josh's house in Lubbock around 11:30 or so. We are all exhausted and about to crash.

P.S. The craziness factor was in overdrive today... I guess with the lack of sleep + the fact that we are all crazy anyways + we are all in the same car for hours at a time = super craziness...

Sarah speaks fluent stupid, Jenn speaks fluent sarcasm, Turtle speaks fluent turtle, and Megan speaks all three...

- Megan