I'll be your weatherwoman soon enough

We made it! To Alabama, that is. I'm happy to report that we didn't leave the dogs at home or forget Important Things like underwear or baby food or DIAPERS, and that we made it here in one piece, in relatively good time, and without incident.

Of course, I've already taken a bazillion pictures, so while Sam is napping and everyone is out running errands, I figured I'd update here and post a couple pictures so that it's not Picture Overload when I get back home.

First off, The Trip.

Our trusty captain, er, lieutenant.

Milk face!

Miss Odie, basking in the sunshine on top of her towel.

Crazy Marci, head shoved up as far as it can go under the seat.

Ol' Blue Eyes did a fantastic job on the trip.

While planning and organizing at home before the trip, I forgot the tiny detail that Auburn was NOT on our way to my parents' house. Two different interstates. Hmmm.. Added an extra hour or two to our trip, but we needed to take this picture there anyway.

And this one.

It was so HOT out there. Poor Sammy was sweating his little heart out, but he was a good sport while we snapped shots of him.

And while we're on the topic of heat, who comes up with the heat index? I think they should let me decide these things. I've got twenty plus years of sweat experience under my belt, and frankly, I don't think the weather people are aware of just how hot it is since they are updating the "weather" from inside their air-conditioned offices. Take for instance, while we were in Auburn, the temperature was 96 degrees. The Heat Index was 99. Ok, that is way off. I was outside, in the sunshine in the heat of the day, and it felt closer to 200 degrees. As unrealistic as that sounds, don't you think people would take those types of readings more seriously?

Scenario:
Do I wanna go for a run right now at 1pm? Let me check the heat index. OH WOWZERS 246 degrees!! I think I'll wait til dark when it feels closer to 90 degrees.

See? I think that's more helpful than guesstimating two degrees higher than the actual temperature. Weather people. Psh. Consider that my resume and application.

I will leave you with one more picture before I soon freeze up your computer with ridiculous amounts of beach pictures.

WAR SAM EAGLE!!!