Day Fourteen and Fifteen

Indianapolis Museum of Art

At the DCI Finals

We had a great time in Indianapolis. Saturday we slept in, had a leisurely morning and spent the afternoon in downtown Indianapolis as well as a couple of hours at the Museum of Art. We watched the finals of the Drum Corps International, which were quite exciting. One of the highlights of the event was the performance by the USMC Drum and Bugle Corps. They did a medley of songs from the musical "Hair," finishing with a chorus of "Let the Sunshine In!" The irony of that all was only matched by the quality of the performance!

Sunday we got up, packed the car and headed west. Our goal: Tulsa, Oklahoma. We had a pretty uneventful day. We even did a little wine tasting in Missouri of all places. The wine was pretty good. Once in Oklahoma our uneventfulness disappeared in an instant. We drove into the heart of a significant thunder storm. Sara was at the wheel. She slowed down due to the rain, lack of visibility and high winds. A big rig passed us in the fast lane and caused us to hydroplane. In a heartbeat we were heading toward the ditch! I grabbed the wheel and helped Sara steer into the slide, she hit the brakes and the tires grabbed for traction and we semi-spun back to the middle of the expressway. SO many things could have gone wrong in those few seconds...but they didn't. Sara pulled the car to the side (thankfully no one was coming for some time) and we sat there for a few minutes taking deep breaths. We changed seats and, as the weather began to subside, I drove us into Tulsa. We are grateful for the safety features of our car, the way we reacted, that no one was following us and that we weren't the only ones in Zelda (Sara always names her cars) when this all happened!  

Drum Corps Finals