This is Chris and the kids outside in front of some mountains in Wyoming. Chris and I entertained ourselves for a good portion of the trip by humming the theme song to Brokeback Mountain.
For some reason I can't upload any more images. I'll add more tomorrow. :)
We're Home!!
We got home from our Road Trip to Texas on Sunday evening. We had a really great trip. On the way there we drove through Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, the N. Eastern tip of New Mexico, and through Texas in to Fort Worth/Dallas. It took us three nights to get there, and we stayed in Dallas for three nights. On the way home we drove through Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana, and home.
The trip there was pretty uneventful, and rushed. We just drove straight through the days, only stopping for meals, basically. Dallas was kind of, um, not what we expected. I was assuming it would be more like Chicago, in regards to shopping and touristy stuff. Unfortunately, it was almost the opposite. There was NO shopping downtown where we were staying, everything appeared to be more in the suburbs or Ft. Worth. So we occupied ourselves in the hotel, mostly. We took the train to a grocery store to pick up food for the kids and I one day. Took the train to the zoo the next day, and the last morning I drove to the aquarium, and met up with an online friend and her kids.
We drove to Oklahoma City that night, and LOVED it. We went to the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial, which was really, really special. We didn't get a chance to see the museum, but the memorial itself was very nice. Also downtown OK City there is a section called "Brick Town", which was REALLY neat. The buildings, streets, etc. are made out of bricks, and in the middle there is a little river running through with tour boats, etc. It had a real Louisiana bayou kind of feel to it. The weather was GORGEOUS, and we had a nice, relaxing evening. The next day we drove through Kansas, and into Nebraska. We started hearing a funny noise in our van that evening, and could tell it wasn't the engine, but couldn't pin point what it was. So we kept driving down the #2 highway in Nebraska, which is essentially the same as driving through any rural Saskatchewan highway. We found a tiny little town with a nice hotel, and it also happened to have a garage in it. It was our passenger side wheel bearing, which we got replaced at a dealership at another town an hour north. So, ON to South Dakota. We LOVED this state. The Black Hills are gorgeous. Just outside Mt. Rushmore there is a tiny little tourist town called Keystone. It was mostly shut down for the season, but it looked like SUCH a fun place to visit. So our plan is to return in five years for an extended vacation to Mt. Rushmore and surrounding areas. We made it back to Billings, MO the next day, but didn't have enough time to make the border crossing, so we just spent a quiet evening there, as we had no clean clothes, and no energy to do anything else! There was a quaint little Mexican restaurant across the street where Chris got us supper. The next day we headed home, but I had the flu!! It was awful.
We had lots of fun, and the kids are dibbing this as the "most fun vacation ever", but when asked what their favourite part was it was "swimming". Apparently hotel pools in the States are more fun than at home. *Shrugs shoulders*.
