Friday, July 1, 2011

Day 1 - Road Trip - Iowa

And we're off!  We said good-bye to our cousins after lunch.  They headed out following behind us for a bit.  It sure was a treat to have them at our house for a whole week.  Thankfully we didn't have to boo-hoo because we get to meet back up in about a week for more days of fun together out west. 



Our afternoon and some of the evening was spent just driving to head north and west.



Ami wanted me to take a picture of all the corn.  It was pretty!

"Welcome to Iowa"


Michaela doing Brain Quest with Ami

 Unfortunately, due to the flooding of the Missouri River, we had to detour a few different times and ended up taking another hour to get to our destination than we had originally planned.  The picture below is of the Interstate with single-lanes for each direction, sandbagged on both sides, and water up to the road and seeping under the sandbags.  Glad we got through at this place!

 
We had expected Iowa to be hot, humid, and miserable, but we were welcomed with a strong breeze and very little humidity.  Yea!  We cooked a quick supper and then the kids had time to jump in the cold swimming pool for a short bit.



One day's drive down, just a few thousand more miles to go, but a boatload of memories to be made!

2 comments:

Laurie said...

How fun...it's like we get to go on vacation WITH you! Love that! We're headed out today.... 1st stop, Kansas City! :)

Amy said...

First thought: "if you build it . . . "
second thought: ugh, detours! hopefully everything will go great!
third thought: we can't wait! less than a week!

and after that, my brain shut down!

praying you all the way to our house!!!