Day 5- Like a rolling stone... rolling home.

9am, Tuesday, August 8th, 2006- I am in my bed. I am going to attempt to write this blog, then I will fall asleep, for many hours... I hope.

Let me just start off by saying, Lafayette needs to get on the ball. As we are driving around Lafayette looking for a place to fill the gas tank in the rental car, as well as, get it vacuumed and washed, we turn on the radio hoping for the best. 96.5 plays one decent song(I believe it was The Offspring), then it plays a bunch of crap in a row. We start flipping stations: crap...crap...crap... Tracy Chapman's "Give Me One Reason" catches our attention as the most enjoyable song on the radio. After we gave her at least five good reasons not to listen to the song anymore, we flipped back to 96.5. They were advertising the "BIG, BIG" shows coming up. They were: Stained, Nickleback, Hoobastank, and some other band, who probably sounds exactly like the other three bands. Come on now! This is very disappointing especially since the last band I saw play was the Red Hot Chili Peppers, after seeing about 25 other bands that are very talented. If you ask me, the radio stations around here are ball-less and greedy. The promoters, especially at the Cajun Dome, are ignorant in what seems to be music in general, and, also, what people over here are really interested in. The only reasons the people that do go to those shows go to them are because they are force fed crappy music by ignorant people, and because there is nothing else to go see. God forbid they go to a local show, that's scarry stuff, right? Or is it really highly entertaining? Yes, and especially if people are there and are interested. Go get involved people!

Ok, so the ride home, now. We slept in until about 10am to be able to check out by 11. Then we drove down to Denny's and had a very good breakfast. I stuffed myself with the Ultimate Omelete, and cake for desert. Then we got on the Highway. We decided to take the scenic route back home this time. We followed Highway 45 all the way down until it intersected with I-55. We took I-55 all the way to I-10. On the way we stopped in St. Louis to see the Archway. We marveled at it for a few minutes, then we went down to the museum. We read all about the Lewis and Clark Expedition and about the Wright Brothers and their airplane. After about an hour and a half we decided to leave, but first we had to stop to get some gas. We stopped at the first gas station we saw. It was in the midst of quite a few abandoned buildings. I went to go pay inside, and as I was inside, a woman and three or four men walked in. They tried selling us an open carton of cigarrettes. It doesn't do me any good; I don't smoke. They made me a little nervous, but I made it out alive, so it's all good. After that we were getting back on the interstate; on the on ramp some kids had recked their car into the wall. The car had caught on fire and there was trash and clothes strewn all accross the on ramp, don't know why the clothes, though. We asked if they had help coming, they said yes. Good... I left. I did not really want to hang around in case it was going to explode. We left St. Louis, and had planned on eating in Memphis, but then we saw it... a Dairy Queen sign! We don't have one here, of course. So we stopped in, ate, and, naturally, ordered our favorite flavor Blizzard. We flipped them upside-down to see if they passed the test, and they did, so we ate them. The rest of the trip was dark, tedious, and tiresome. I am completely exhausted, so I will sleep now.

I did take some pictures. After I get them developed, I will outline the trip's highlites with them. Peace! I'm out, for quite a few hours, I hope.
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