Before leaving McPherson, we stopped to get gas and put a little air in one of my tires. With the change in the weather, one of my tires tends to get a little low which causes the pressure monitor to go off. The only way to make the light go back to normal is to put some air in the tire. This particular tire, however, is missing the valve stem cap. Have no idea what happened to it and can never remember to pick up another one when I'm at the store. I should have known when I inserted the 75 cents for air that this wasn't a good idea. The air machine only worked part-time apparently because the air coming out was very sporadic and took forever to get from 28psi to 34 psi (the monitor resets itself at 35 psi). Then when I pulled the air hose nozzle away from the valve stem, the stem itself appeared to be cracked and almost bent midway into the threads. I pushed on it and it appeared to go back into place. You couldn't hear any air coming out of it, the tire looked fine and the psi was within the normal range so we decided to go ahead and go to Wichita.
After dropping the kids off in Augusta, we went into Wichita to eat at Bonefish Grill - something new and tasty to try! The pressure of the tire in question dropped at a steady slow pace but not to the point where we were concerned. We opted to wait to air the tire up when we got back to Augusta that way if there was a problem we were only a few blocks from family. Not a bad idea in theory. However, when we got out of the vehicle at the restaurant, Jason decided to "check" the tires. For whatever reason he tried to take the cap off the valve stem of the low tire which ended up breaking the busted end of it off altogether! Immediately the tire went completely flat in a loud "woooosh"! Awesome. We decided to go ahead and eat first.
Dinner was delicious! Bang bang shrimp (lightly breaded and fried shrimp in a creamy, slightly spicy cream sauce over a bed of fresh lettuce), shrimp and scallops with mango peach salsa and ahi tuna with an Amstel light and a black cherry guava mojito to wash it all down with! Service was great and very helpful. Couldn't have asked for a better date! Then it was time to change the tire. In the dark. Thankfully Bonefish is in the Waterfront area at 13th and Webb. A very well lit and low danger area of town! We were also lucky in that the spare in my Jeep is a full size tire. As soon as everything was loaded and after a quick stop at Starbucks for a Pumpkin Spice Latte (I got my standard Mocha and as much as I love them I was super disappointed in myself for not getting the Latte) we headed back to Augusta.
Not only did Tucker get to be spoiled for awhile by GaGa, GiGi and Aunt Marcie but Hayden got to play with cousin Delaney as well! They had dinosaurs all over the floor and were banging on empty buckets with wooden spoons. Needless to say it wasn't very quiet when we got there! They also had their pajamas on. When asked if he wanted to put his jammies on like NeNe, apparently Hayden took one look at her pretty flowered nightgown and exclaimed "No! I not wear flower jammies!" He got to wear his monster jammies instead! ;)
The evening wasn't all good though. Poor Tucker was wide awake, and just like his big brother used to do, he screamed almost the entire way home. Thankfully it was in the car and not for an hour after we got home!
Just a few extra pics from the week!
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