Possibly the worst day to go shopping EVER!

My lovely aunt wanted to go shopping today. Completely harmless, right? Wrong! After we had been driving for about 30 minutes we were stuck in the middle of a typhoon! The wind was fiercely blowing as the rain beat into the car window completely obstructing my view. At one point, I was driving 25 mph and thought I was going to have to stop.

After that was over, we made it to the interstate were the weather had calmed a bit. We flipped on the radio to see what was going on - only to hear that there was a tornado watch and possible warning for the city that we were driving into! When we made it to the mall and stepped out of the car, we could hear tornado sirens in the distance. Yes! Tornado sirens!! Did that stop us? Of course not! We continued on our merry way.

After we left the mall, we decided to head over to Walmart and pick up some things. After were there for nearly 20 minutes, my aunt talked with a lady in the back and was told that about 30 minutes ago everyone had to leave their items and go to the back of the store. I'm guessing this is when the tornado siren went off. While we were still shopping, we could hear how horrible it was storming and raining... that's when we decided to leave.

I went out while everyone was checking out and pulled the car up to the front of the store. They followed shortly there after. Walmart is in downtown and is also the lowest part of the town. We realized this when we pulled up to the stoplight and watched the small river run across the road. This wasn't even the worst part! After we got past that, we got to and even lower part where the cars in front of us were nearly flooding out! There were a couple cops on the side of the road getting ready to shut the highway down. Luckily, the car made it through and we were able to get the hell out of town.

So yeah, worst shopping day ever! We did manage to get some pretty awesome shirts, though. One being the coolest shirt in the world... a Marvel shirt!! It's so soft and awesome, I love it! We also got a Pink Floyd shirt, Jim Beam shirt and a Homer Simpson shirt. Definitely an awesome, awesome haul. Well, I suppose that's all for now. Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Here are the photos:

Look at the darkness in the clouds!

 We probably should have gone home.

 This was taken in downtown Poplar Bluff. Just look at the massive flooding!

 The road was practically gone.

If you look in the back, you can see that the cars are nearly under water.

And how about a bonus gallery of Odin from last night:

And lastly... a video!!

Fun while it lasted...

It's official, the girls are gone... >insert crying face here< I can't really be too sad, though, their new parents are beyond awesome! And out of all the joeys we've ever adopted out, I think these two will be spoiled the most. And that makes me feel SO much better. By the time we got home, we already had an email from Heidi with a picture of the girls in their pouch. I think it's safe to say that we'll get all the updates we can handle.

In other news, we took a detour before we meet Heidi and Tim and stopped off at the health department and got a flu shot. The place was as dead as a cemetery when we got there, but as soon as we filled out our papers, a lady with 4-5 teen boys came in. Then an elderly lady came in and sat in the corner. The boys were all worked up and nearly crying about how terrified they were of getting a shot. The ones that weren't terrified we're just creaming and yelling. I'm still thankful that we got there first and were able to get out before they even started signing the boys up. 

After we dropped the girls off, we had to run to Walmart to get a few groceries and some glider fruit. While we were there, I ran into one of our distant cousins that's been working there for nearly 20 years. It's amazing, cause it doesn't matter how many time she sees me and talks to me, every time I run into her, it's like she's never met me before. Some people...

Well, I suppose that's all for now. I'm completely exhausted and just want to go wallow on the couch. Until next time, you know where to find me...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Song of the day: Time by Pink Floyd

Here are the pics:

 LaVaughn's flu shot wound.

My flu shot wound. Who doesn't love Scooby? :)

Bonus Gallery!

Just thought I'd give another update on the two mosaic joeys that Kira has IP. These two are going to be the death of me. Who knew it would be so hard/exciting waiting on them to come OOP? Ugh, just detach already, lol. Also, the second little ringtail is... a boy!

Here are the pics from yesterday:

 This is ringtail joey #1. He has a big white ring on his tail and a white tip. I believe he's also going to have white hands and feet.

 Kira trying to nab the mealworm tweezers. She can never get enough mealies, lol.

 This is ringtail joey #2. As you can see, the tip of his tail is white with a ring in the middle of the white.

 He also has a ring at the base of his tail.

And by the looks of it, he's going to be really light! Unless he colors up more, but lets hope he doesn't! :)

PetsWay or bust...

We had take a little trip to Poplar Bluff yesterday and decided to stop off at PetsWay and see what all was new. Truthfully, it was the same old crap they've had for years! That didn't stop is from having fun or almost bringing home another animal... I know, it's horrible.

Before I go any further, I would like to announce that we got rid of Sirius and Remus. They're were just sitting there, not getting enough attention. And since they are friendly birds, we felt super bad about it. I mean, it's okay for Rhonda and Eric to not get handled, they hate it. Luckily, a nice bird couple wanted them. And now they have them, lol.

Okay, back to the PetsWay talk. Since we got rid of a couple animals, of course we wanted to get more. I mean, it just wouldn't be normal if we didn't. So what animals did we almost get? Why rats of course. We stopped by the poor, defenseless future snake food and automatically fell in love with this beautiful little black and white rat. Then we saw a cute little hooded cream rat under her. And next to her sat an really cute brown rat. You better believe we considered getting all three. When an employee finally came over to use, we asked if we could hold them. He opened the door and let us fumble around with all of them. And to our surprise, all three of the rats we girls! Seriously, they were all girls! We took that as our sign to not get a rat and after that, we left.

The stupidity level of the pet service employees seriously amaze mean. I mean, how hard is it to sex a rat and them separate the males from the females?? I can't hardly stand going into the pet stores anymore and look at all the mistreated animals. And when you actually have a serious question about an animal, you better believe the employees have NO idea what you're talking about. Ugh, I'm done with my rant now...

After that, we went to Walmart (which was a big mistake) and picked up a few new things to accent our kitchen. And while we were there, we found the most kick ass shirt EVER! You'll see the one I'm talking about a the bottom.

Well, I suppose that's all for now. Until next time, you know where to find me...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Song of the day: Hurricane by Bob Dylan

Here are the pics:

A wild deer at the park.

Another wild deer at the park.

This was at the Sam-A-Baker state park. There are deer ALL over that place.

This is cute.

A hermit crab changing shells.

Ugh, look at it legs.

I believe this is a Pink-Toed Tarantula.

Probably my favorite picture of the hermit crabs.

This is the little rattie that we wanted to adopt.

The other two we wanted were under her.

This one kills me. So pitiful...

Some cute little albino mice.

This is the other little girl we wanted.

My favorite lizard of all time, the bearded dragon.

Look how cool this guy is.

Love the iguanas.

A little black ferret sleeping in his food dish.

Wow, guinea pigs are seriously crazy looking.

Sleepy ferret.

I forgot what kind of pink bird this is.

Look at the dove all balled up in its fat, lol.

A side view of the dove.

Rat blocks for Evan and Jonah's cage.

Robbie's favorite ferret treats... Ferret Bites.

Here's the vintage Pink Floyd shirt. This is seriously one of the coolest shirts EVER!

That's what it said, but part of me doesn't want to believe it.

Robbie having a nap on LaVaughn. What a sleepy little ferret.