On The Road Agaaaaaiiinn....

Jordan had his first med school interview this weekend! It's called A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Mesa, Arizona {I know, a bit of a mouthfull}. It went really well and he loves the school and their curriculum, so we'll see! We got to stay with his old mission companion and his wife who live right by the school! It was really fun and insanely hot. It was 105-110 degrees the entire time we were there. Other than learning that there are cacti the size of houses, this is what we learned/did on our little road trip.

1. Playing "Eye Spy" in the middle of the Arizona desert in the dark is not very successful. It goes something like this:

Jordan: "I spy with my little eye something that is... twinkling!"

Carly: "The stars?"

Jordan: "Dang... you're good."

2. Singing hymns at the top of our lungs in southern accents is a good way to pass time.

3. If you can't get Jordan to sing, or he says he's not in the mood, just start singing "I'm Proud To Be An American." He seriously can't help himself.

4. We are both to the point where we can't distinguish our made up lyrics to songs and the real lyrics to songs.

5. Every time someone was hogging the left lane and we couldn't pass them, Jordan sang this little ditty: "Choose the right, when a lane is placed before you..."

6. Playing live Pac Man is also a good time passer.

Rule # 1. You have to straddle the left and right lanes.

Rule #2. You have to make a munching/chomping sound as the dotted lines pass under your car.

Side note: Varying your driving speed changes the rate at which the lines pass under your car and thereby changes your chomping rhythm.

7. You can see a lot more bugs coming when your brights are on and then you can make crash and splash sounds as they hit your car. For example. "Veeeeeeeerrrroo...{insert yucky splat sound}

8. Cars who are going ten under suddenly start going ten over when you decide to pass them.

9. There are a lot of people who have lots of money and hate the world. In other words, there are a lot of people who have HUGE houses in the middle of NO WHERE.

10. It is an entirely different world driving back during the day when you drove there at night. For example, we remember driving over a dark bridge. We didn't know until our drive back that this is what the bridge was crossing.

Don't worry. It was just a 600 foot drop into the Glen Canyon Dam.

There is more to Arizona than I gave it credit for.