trip to the south, day 6
We have been in Caruthersville, Missouri, for three days and will leave tomorrow for Cape Girardeau. That is the part of the trip that I am most apprehensive about, because I have heard many things about Bonnie's father, and I don't think any of them have been positive.
Otho's family is very large and very rambunctious, and it reminds me a lot of the Snyder-Browns. I felt more comfortable with all of their commotion going on around me than I have yet this trip, because it's the most familiar. All the same, I think when I get home I will want to be alone for a week. I'm about new-people-ed out.
Today we had a break, and Otho left the car (a Mercury Grand Marquis which looks very old school but is in fact about as new as a car can be) with me and Nathan. We went to Wal-Mart and then drove past the sea walls so I could get a look at the Mississippi River. It is very large, very brown, and too choppy to learn to skip rocks on. I felt the water, out of curiosity, and found it quite warm. There was a barge a little way upstream.
At dusk, we were just finishing dessert with Otho's mother (pineapple upside down cake) when Nathan noticed fireflies outside and we ran out to catch some. We collected them all, plus a few clover flowers so they would feel at home, inside a Tupperware container with a lid that didn't quite fit. They're much different than I expected -- so placid and easy to catch, and so plain looking when their butts aren't glowing. When we let them all go at the end, one climbed up onto my finger and stayed well after all the others had flown away.
Otho's family is very large and very rambunctious, and it reminds me a lot of the Snyder-Browns. I felt more comfortable with all of their commotion going on around me than I have yet this trip, because it's the most familiar. All the same, I think when I get home I will want to be alone for a week. I'm about new-people-ed out.
Today we had a break, and Otho left the car (a Mercury Grand Marquis which looks very old school but is in fact about as new as a car can be) with me and Nathan. We went to Wal-Mart and then drove past the sea walls so I could get a look at the Mississippi River. It is very large, very brown, and too choppy to learn to skip rocks on. I felt the water, out of curiosity, and found it quite warm. There was a barge a little way upstream.
At dusk, we were just finishing dessert with Otho's mother (pineapple upside down cake) when Nathan noticed fireflies outside and we ran out to catch some. We collected them all, plus a few clover flowers so they would feel at home, inside a Tupperware container with a lid that didn't quite fit. They're much different than I expected -- so placid and easy to catch, and so plain looking when their butts aren't glowing. When we let them all go at the end, one climbed up onto my finger and stayed well after all the others had flown away.