Hurrican Ike was on its way!

On Sept. 11th around 7 am, Bill received evacuation orders from his work. He woke me up and we spent the next 2 1/2 hrs packing for a trip that we had no idea where we were going. We just started driving and heading in the direction of my mom's house. Originally we thought we would be far enough away from the storm if we stayed in Lafiette, LA. To no suprise there were no hotels in a 100 mile radius of Lafiette. So we looked at the map and decided to head to Jackson, Mississippi. We found a hotel that would take our dogs and decided to stay there. It was around 10 pm when we finally got to the hotel. The hotel was one room with two double beds. It wasn't too nice. So the next day we decided to find a better place and moved to the Residence Inn.