Today we drove. Oklahoma City to Memphis. Our now-standard Wal-Mart lunches, which are easy to find, reliable, inexpensive, potentially healthy (depending on your choices), and can save a trip if we need anything else, from an extra tarp, to glow sticks to underwear. Mom gets hummus, carrots and kombucha, Ellie gets a snack box or Mac and cheese, Jeremiah gets a premade sandwich, Dad gets different things, and we all get mango spears, cherries, grapes, apples, oranges...fruit.
Other than the Walmart stop, a couple of gas fill-ups, and a Starbucks stop, we drove 486 miles. Starbucks was the most exciting: Phil's pocket quietly ejected his keys while he was enjoying his iced coffee. We figured it out a hundred miles later, but luckily we were in Arksnsas, where people are kind, so we have a promise that the manager will mail them to us tomorrow. In the meantime, my keys are clipped to my belt loop.
The day ended with a lovely visit with one of Ellie's oldest friends, Ella, who met us with her parents at a Chinese restaurant in Memphis, the same one we stumbled onto 6 years ago, the last time we came through the area. Ella and Ellie first met in Chongqing on the day they were both put into their new family's arms.
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