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Making Plans         It was a gorgeous summer morning as I, my brother David, sister Marcia, mom, dad, and baby girl were traveling home to Laramie from Colorado Springs where we had at peace(p) to visit my grandma.  The atmosphere in the car was fun and filled with laughter.  We were glad to be together. Our chatter was constant and our conversations often everywherelapped.  One learned young that if you exigency to be heard in my family, you must merely speak louder than everyone else.  Or, you might simply say, Would you please shut up for a minute so I can say something important?  We all understood that such a plain and politely spoken command was not meant to be offensive or at all disrespectful.         We were a bit louder than usual that morning as we had great plans for the day.  Since we had to travel through Denver, we all agreed that we should eat at a nice restaurant and then go to the zoo where we could eat some more and see the animals then probably eat some more.         Daddy was a bit tense and growly, his usual demeanor when traffic was thick as it was on that Friday morning.  Everyone and their Grandma is on this one road to Denver, he grumbled.  My Daddy is claustrophobic.  He hates traffic which is the main reason I think we moved long ago to Wyoming, the land of wide-open spaces.  You can drive more than a c miles on a Wyoming highway without seeing another car, Daddy would often brag.         That was not the case, however, in Colorado.  The cars were lined up one after another, traveling 75 miles per hour, to the horizon and beyond.  We passengers paid scant attention to the outside world as we were involved in a thought-provoking discussion regarding the strengths and weaknesses of the highly educational run across movie of the summer, Independence Day.  The movie an swered the question  Are we alone in the Universe? with a loud no when aliens arrived and began demolishing major cities all all over the world.  We all gazed out the windshield as we laughed at my sisters comment about the president in the film  He was so broken up over the