Driving Miss Kathy (Day 8): the drive home

Before leaving Joann's house we took one more dip in the pool. Then Thor and I headed off to pick up Chris and Bryce. For those of you who don't know, Chris is my ex-mother-in-law and Bryce, her son, is Sabre's cousin.  They were going to drive home to Phoenix with me, visit with Sabre a day or so and fly back to Tulsa.  This was going to be great for me because Thor would have someone in the back seat with him to hand him food, talk to him, hold his laptop with his movie on it, play with his toys with him, etc.

We got all packed in the cab because it looked like it would rain.  Even with someone in the back, Thor started screaming before we made it out of Tulsa.  He just did not want to be in the car anymore! And then he pooped while we were on the turnpike to Oklahoma City, which means there is no where to turn off and we weren't close to the McDonalds yet. So I pulled off onto some weird dirt road to change him.

Eventually we made it to Gary's dad's house in tiny Shawnee, Oklahoma. It was an hour or so out of our way, but Grandpa Terry had never seen Thor before so I wanted to make sure to let them meet up.  Thor was a little leery of him, but he loved his cute blue heeler puppy. And he loved the pupy's chew toys! Terry even let him take one home.

Then we drove a mile to see Cindy, Garys' mom, and Emma, his grandma.  They had just seen Thor a month before at his first birthday party, but they were glad to see him again.

Thor hadn't had his afternoon nap (because he screamed the whole way down there), so he was a little booger. We ate dinner there but had to leave fairly early because Thor started having a meltdown. We started back towards the interstate and Thor was asleep before we got out of town. 

We stayed on the west side of Oklahoma City in a small town called Clinton, OK on Saturday night. We got a suite so we could all rest up well, but it wasn't that great.  The hotel room was nothing like on the website. It smelled funny and one of the two toilets was stopped up. But it didn't have bedbugs and we were tired, so we stayed.