We made it

Beautiful, WE MADE IT!

Home of the greatest circus on earth, between the Packers & Farve.

After taking a bit longer path to Wisconsin, 2000 miles extra, we have made it. We have traveled over 3000 miles so far on our trip. It has been a great trip so far. We have seen much of the country and can proudly state that God did great in his creation of the earth. Beautiful country we live in.
Here we are in Wisconsin! By the way, “When you say WISCONSIN, you’ve said it all”.

We traveled from Virginia after a great time there where we spent time at the beach. This was Caden’s first time visiting the beach. He enjoyed it as much as we can tell. He did not really like getting wet when we took him to the edge of the ocean.

There are two possible reasons:

1. the rushing water was overwhelming for him

2. the water had a bit chill to it.



Who reading this likes to cut their lawn? I know it is not the funnest, cheeriest duties around the home. We were in Merrillville, Indiana (after visiting our friends Chad and Susan in Indianapolis) driving to find a park to take the little guy too. We found an idea on how to handle not having to mow the lawn. I have seen whole yards filled in with rocks but I have never seen, or thought I would ever see what we saw. Fake turf! Not just fake turf, some of the stuff today has some sort of realness to it, but not this lawn.

This pic is of two lawns, one with turf and the other one is real. Can you tell which is which?

Here is the home with its lawn. Can you see where the “lawn” overlaps? "Honey have you vacuumed the lawn yet?".

Random thoughts during our travels

Trees

I am very pleased to announce there are a lot of trees in them thar hills. Really, there are plenty of them throughout the United States. Well at least the east side of the mighty missip. I guess as we drive I started to think of all those people looking to "save the tree's" as we drive past millions of trees along the highways. I am not saying that I want all trees cut down, or want logging expanded. It is just an observation I have made during our drive.

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Flat lander

Man Dallas, TX is flat. I have always known that but as you drive thru the mountains it hits ya hard.

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Job

Not having a job over the summer to make this trip, PRICELESS.

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Priceless

this statement is far to over used, that is why I chose to use it for myself.

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Rhyme or reason

There is none of that for this post.

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Internet

Man I wish wherever you are the connection and the equipment would be the same. Have had a hard time getting getting things to work, post and the sort. A one size fits all would be nice. But we are so past those days.

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I know you are so very proud that you know me, especially after such grand statements that I have just laid out there for you.

Day #2 fun pics and vid

Today we drove from Hot Springs to Nashville. We made a couple hour stop in Memphis and decided to do a few things downtown. We went to Beale Street and walked around a bit. Had lunch there as well and wnt to the Peabody Hotel to see the ducks in the hotel.

While there we took some time within the hotel for him to let loose as much as a 10 month old can do. He loved the ducks and since he just started crawling this weekend we let him move around on the floor there.

He is such the boy, a bouncing baby boy and the video proves this fact. Funny stuff!

Also the photo below is funny as well. At the Welcome Center just over the mighty mississip river they had a 8 foot tall mosaic egg welcoming you to Memphis. Well my wife snapped a photo and we were surprised to see someone pop into the photo. Take a look.

As with before we have snapped a pic of Caden and a state he has visited. This time...

Check back to see more pics of our Great Adventure of the summer of 2008!