New Mexico to Texas. . .

Day two of our journey was supposed to be the longest day of driving (based on a slight change in plans tomorrow may actually be the longest...) so we tried to get off to a good start with a clean windshield and and a full tank. This is how a little tiny girl cleans the windshield on a giant vehicle...

I'll be honest... most of day two just looked a lot like this:

But we did stop for a lovely little picnic in Albuquerque. If I thought Farmington was a disappointment, my opinion of New Mexico did not get much better by stopping in Albuquerque.  However, New Mexico was much less painful to drive through than Kansas or Nebraska.  

We did drive on historic Route 66, and a photo seemed appropriate.

While we planned for something with a little more ambience as an interesting dinner choice, we did enjoy some DELICIOUS tacos from a taco truck in Amarillo. It turns out trying to park a giant SUV and trailer is a bit of a challenge sometimes. :)

We skipped the souvenirs in Texas, although they were definitely tempting...

And finally landed in Wichita Falls for the night, only to discover there were flash flood and Tornado warnings being broadcast throughout the area. It's funny that we've done this drive during the winter twice, which of course left me concerned about the weather throughout the drive. I figured since we were leaving in May we'd be set! Fortunately we seemed to pass through Dallas just before the Tornado did, and the worst of the flooding in our area covered the freeway going the opposite direction we were headed. Phew!

We got to Houston on Saturday afternoon and we have spent a lovely couple of days hanging out with  cousins and taking a break from the drive. Scarlett and I have played barbies while Desmond is loving chasing Brad. Today Brad, Wes, and I finally got to see the Avengers as well, which was a blast.

 We also got our window fixed, which is fantastic so we won't have to worry about it slipping down through our remaining two days. Anecdote about the windshield: During our drive we had a long way to go, so we decided to listen to an audiobook. We downloaded it and played it through the car stereo. Because the window was faulty, we would have to occasionally slide the window up to make it stop whistling. We did this by me grabbing ahold of the wheel from the passenger seat and Brad using both hands the slide it from one side. This would happen about every 15 minutes. So we are very  glad we won't have to do it anymore. Now we need to clean off all the finger smudges.

A few other memorable and humorous moments of the last few days:

We noticed on Friday morning that there was an adult video store across the street from our hotel. Right in front of it was a GIANT billboard that said "Jesus is watching you." Nice placement. :)

As we drove through Albuquerque we noticed traffic was completely stopped on the opposite side of the freeway. We happened to be passing just in time to see a motorcade and a hearse enter the freeway. Still have no idea who might have died that required stopping the freeway. If anyone has any ideas let us know. Google was no help.