Day 2

Day two was spent driving.

And we did a lot of it. 

Crossing the plains

I had to take a picture of the windmills because my kids love them, all because they have an awesome
Uncle Will.  Uncle Will was with us in a car trip to Denver a few years ago and took the opportunity to teach Tressa about windmills.  He told her that the windmills create all of the wind and that the ones that aren't turning....well its there day off.  We let her believe it for a little while before we told her he was just teasing her.  So now she loves to tell other kids the story of the windmills and they all love to see the windmill forests when we get a chance.

Minnesota!

 Somehow we always end up with a picture of Aspen wide awake while her sisters are snoozing on our family vacations.  But these have got to be my favorite by far!




As you follow the sequence of pictures you will see Aspen noticing her sisters sleeping, then pulling Josie's head down onto her shoulder, and last of all her sweet smile after helping her sister out.



 
 What you don't see in the picture story is Josie's fit over Tressa sleeping on her shoulder when she woke up.  I don't think sleeping in the car suits her though. She was insistent that she was never asleep even after we showed her these pictures. She got so worked up that we gave up on trying to explain so she would stop crying and calm down.  And this same thing happened three more times during our trip.  Poor girl!


We like eating at parks while on road-trips since it gets us out of the car and into fresh air for a bit, and it doesn't hurt that we have young kids who still like to play on them.  I have discovered that I prefer the small town forgotten parks best though.  No where else do you still find teeter-tooters, marry-go-rounds, and the old style fast metal slides.

Fun at a small town park!

Wisconsin

Back in the car kids!

This night we were going to stay at a place called Devils Lake near Wisconsin Dells.  Well unfortunately we did not know that Wisconsin Dells is actually a huge family vacation spot, and the water park capital of the world. So the popular Devil's Lake campground was full and we ended up having to find a place to stay on the fly.  We tried one other camp ground area but found that it was $50 after entrance and camping fees and that the bugs were thicker then the air in this humid place so we ended up crashing at a hotel and grabbing some fast food for dinner.  I was disappointed but the kids were ecstatic and Jon was loving the AC.