Today, if you read yesterday’s blog, is the day the twist comes in. We woke up, had breakfast, and left for St. Cloud, MN. This was segment 2/3 (+ twist).
We wanted to drive on the Enchanted Highway, a road that has some stops with gigantic metal sculptures dotting the pathway. This was also my first Ingress mission
I started the mission once we arrived at stop #1: Giant Deer Replica. Here we took a family picture, we kids went through a cattle gate maze, and I made my first stop of many on the mission.
The next stop, a couple kilometers away, was giant grasshoppers and giant cattails. We took a pic, looked for a geocache (and failed), and I aborted my first Ingress mission.
Here’s how it happened: (Nice fact: The cattails had giant, sharp, metal prongs). 1 – A cattail had previously bent downwards, prongs almost parallel with the ground. 2 – Zoe was walking around, not looking where she was going. 3 – All of a sudden (B saw what happened, or at least claims he did), Zoe was on the ground, crying, with blood on her face.
I’ve never been to an ER before, and I think it’s for the best. Even though Zoe’s cut had been cleaned, it was deep (whereas my knee had been just the skin came off). Of course I sat and waited, Z went in for stitches, I sat and waited. Pretty boring, sitting there. At least my sister wasn’t the character in my book, alone in the wild.
Daddy suggested we go to McDonald’s, despite no Zoe. We just pretend we drove around for a bit. At McDonald’s, Mommy texted a picture of her holding “Tigee” and crying, waiting for stitches.
We drove back to the hospital, waited a bit, and Zoe and Mommy came out. The stitches looked ok, but now Zoe was the queen of the car ride. We got Twizzlers and Starbursts for her, and B and I each got some Twizzlers.
We did not go back to the Enchanted Highway, and just kept driving to St. Cloud. We got iPads earlier than usual here, probably because of Zoe. Eventually we arrived at St. Cloud and, noticing the time was almost 11 p.m., went straight to bed.
