Getting to Amarillo, Awkward moments

We got to Amarillo late yesterday. Well, maybe not so late, about 7:45pm. But after we had checked into the hotel and unloaded all that we needed for the time we will be here, I was pretty exhausted. I still managed to look at the indoor saltwater pool and hot tube in the hotel next to ours – we are allowed to use their facilities. But I was not much good after that.
Seth followed us most of the way from Hot Springs and it was a good thing because about an hour outside of Oklahoma City I noticed that a split in his front bumper was tearing loose and starting to flap badly in the crosswind we were driving through. After we cut it off and strengthened the remaining piece Seth decided we were going too slowly for him and Chase, so they pulled ahead.
We let them go because Amarillo was only about 150 miles ahead and it is a straight shot west on I-40. There was no way they could get lost. Besides, they wanted to make it to Texas before us. They succeeded by about twenty minutes. So while they were waiting on us they went to the mall across the road from our hotel.
When they caught back up with us, we were on our second trip with the hotel cart and they joined right in. As we were finishing up Chase picked up the new computer we had bought – it is pretty bulky and slightly heavy – but he stopped at the locked door. He had the key card for the hotel door in his jacket pocket. At least he thought he did, but as Seth checked both side pockets and the inside pocket he came up empty.
Chase was not even thinking about putting the computer down so he asked Seth to feel in his front pants pockets. As Seth was standing behind him carrying out the search of Chase’s front pockets, I came up to them with a load of baggage, stared at them and they were both embarrassed. “If this is the way the two of you are going to act in Texas, I’m sending both of you back to Hot Springs.”
We will explore tomorrow while we take care of some of the more urgent tasks in our relocation.