ME: 7/30/07 Gifts from Julie

Our friend Julie gave us 2 bottles of water and a collection of little goodies. Each goodie is wrapped, so we can't see what it is. She told us to do the math and figure out how often we would get to open a present so that we spread the packages out evenly. So let's see. It looks like our total mileage is going to be 2,402 miles and there are 9 presents. We'll round to 2,403 miles and that means every 267 miles we get to open a gift. Whooop! What fun! What great friends. ☺.

When the trip odometer hit 250, I started watching it closely. We knew we wanted to pull over for the big occasion. Our choices were a rest stop that would be a few miles early, or an exit that would be a few miles after the magic 267. We opted for the rest stop. Our mileage was 265.9 when we parked. We were warned that one of them would melt, but we couldn't figure out from the wrapping which one that might be. Marty picked a bag and I got to open it. It was a box of tootsie rolls! We thought we had found the one that would melt. But it turns out, it was a box of Tootsie Roll playing cards. I guess we can't play gin while we're driving but I know we'll be able to put these to good use.

Check this out. When the trip odometer was at 265, my regular car odometer was at 19,999 . . . about to turn over 20,000. Kinda fun!