Super 8 Motel - Sioux City/South

Happy birthday Nick! 25 years young. Unfortunately on his birthday we had to drive 10 hours. We left at 11am to Warrensburg, MO to deliver our bunnies, Maggie and Sam to Kristin. She is a nice girl who responded to my craiglist ad to foster our bunnies. She has ...

... ha, das hat aber nicht geklappt. Egal.

Roadtrip!!

So nach 8 stunden (mit pipi pause und essen) sind wir in Omaha angekommen und haben meinen Cousinen getroffen. Es gibt Gary, Lonnie, Carrie, Ashley und Wellesley. Gary, Lonnie, Holly und ihrer Freund Sean und ich sind trinken gegangen. Alles war schön im ordnung bis holly mir was böldes gesagt und wir haben gestritten. Es war doof. Teresa hat gesagt, holly ist unter viel drück wegen ...

Today we departed early from Chicago...a fine and sunny Chicago!...for Iowa. Pretty much a day of transition with a few surprises. The country side is wonderful to look at as it is full of corn and soy bean fields. We stopped mid morning in a place called Galena. Galena is like a time warp ...a better description is that it looks like a movie set with fake looking buildings but it is a real town. The historical significance is that the ...

... across South Dakota to our destination for the night, the North Sioux City KOA Kampground. On the way, Maggie pointed out that we were going right by the famous Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD. It's listed in the book 1000 Places To See Before You Die. So of course, we had to stop. The local corn farmers have been decorating this with corn cobs and corn husks after the harvest each year since 1892.

Total Miles: 1537 Total Hours In The Car: 28 Hours, 15 Minutes Total States: 5 Quote Of The Day: "I love the smell of asphalt in the morning" Bob Travis Tourist Activities: Badlands National Park SD, Wall Drug, Wall SD, Corn Palace Mitchell SD Cultural Differences ...

... I wasn't that impressed. And I walked out of the Mall of America empty handed. Yes, I didn't buy one thing. (Chris is now happy, knowing our bank account is safe.) Sioux City had a great little theatre. Actually, it wasn't little at all, but it was very quaint. Here is a picture of our dressing room. It was a great, full crowd. You could tell they really enjoyed the show. Too bad, the critique who was also there did not...

... going to a Minnesota state grab and heading back to Iowa, but we decided to save Minnesota for a future trip when we could visit our friend Nancy. So we headed to Iowa and a more reasonable end to our day in Sioux City. Abby was happy with our decision. Blog Note: We have a long haul ahead of us Wednesday as we try to make it to Chicago to stay with our friend Yvette (we need to try to get there before the baby is born!), so we will likely update the blog the next day.

... left after an excellent zoo trip - way better than anything I've seen before. We nearly didn't go in as there were approx 2 million kids there, school buses, moms with strollers - the lot. Seems like it was a special day whereby loads of schools etc came to this zoo. We thought it would be packed but the place was HUGE. It had everything - giraffe, apes, lions, tigers, pumas, elephants, sea-lions, a monkey island, everything ...

... working at Wall Drug (the cafe is just her part time job, she usually works at Wall Drug) but she 'doesn't recommend' the 5 cent coffee. Hmmm...
After that we headed east on I-90 until we came to the city of Mitchell. I'm sure you've all heard of it, it's the home of the world's only Corn Palace!! Every year they redo the outside of the building with a different theme. The thing that caught my attention most about it was that there were TONS of birds all over the ...

... Nothing much else of interest for the rest of the day, just more driving. We're staying in Dakota Dunes, SD tonight. This town is right on the border with Iowa and Nebraska. We actually ate dinner in Sioux City, IA (just 3 miles down the road) and then headed over the Missouri River to South Sioux City, NE, where we spent about 10 minutes driving around. Now Emily can add Nebraska to her list of states visited.