We Made it to Washington!!!

Wowza, what crazy day we have had, but we beat the BLIZZARD!!

Had to share some things from our adventure......first of all, we drove through South Dakota. We found out that there is NOTHING in South Dakota!!! We only found 2 Mickey D's in SD and neither one of them had a play place. YIKES, 4 boys in the car for HOURS and no play place....not good. We made it to Rapid City and the boys were able to enjoy seeing the HUGE dinosaurs in 20 degree weather.....Madison and I stayed in the car :)

The boys spent much cuddle time in the van (whether they liked it or not :) ) Mostly they didn't kill each other, but we had to break up some altercations of course.

The mountains through Idaho were beautiful, though we saw them going 40 miles an hour down hwy 12, well at least the passengers who could see out the front window could see them since the others were iced over on the INSIDE and of course we didn't let David look since he was driving......oh, did I tell you it is BUTT COLD in South Dakota and Montana.....oh and when we had a conversation with people from Montana about the cold.......they just laughed, nothing else, just laughed.

One thing that was unique about South Dakota and Montana was there were casinos EVERYWHERE. The picture shows an example of that.....a gas station, fast food, casino in the same building at a corner stop off the highway. Too crazy.....hundreds of casinos....of course only when there was a town.

After many hours on the road, we are now just about 3 hours from our destination. We spent a great afternoon at Uncle Steve's house with him, Tori and Kobe and her friend Madison then they came over to our hotel to swim and have fun. After drying off and getting into jammies, the boys laid down as I got the movie ready and 5 minutes into Wall-E, ALL 3 of them were out!!

We are going to take it slow in the morning but then run by Uncle Steve's and head to Richland after lunch. Hopefully I can post again tomorrow and share more pictures.