WARNING!!! This is a very LONG post but it covers a very LONG trip (1600 miles)! Friday was like a fun little mini vacation for me. I flew in to Nashville on a very early flight Friday morning.. Dustin and Joslyn picked me up and we had lunch at Mc D's (a popular stop on the trip)... and then we made a little detour and stopped at the Amish store. I just love driving into the Amish area... it is always beautiful and green and clean.
The corn fields were plentiful in Kentucky. I wish they were ready to harvest...
We went into this Amish store... I wished I lived by one of these.. It was food storage heaven.... bulk food, fresh butter and canned stuff (and the BEST gummy worms I've ever eaten... really!) and the coolest thing was they had a big glass window you could look through and watch the women make this stuff. I sooo wanted to take a picture of them because I was so impressed.. but I respected their culture and privacy.
Next stop was The kids home
and here is a picture of their newest addition... Snowball the rat!
We did a little family time and got ready to go to my favorite place for dinner...
The Wood Shed!!!! I can't say enough about how GOOD (everything I've had is great... I go there everytime I'm in Kentucky) and cheap their food is!!! They should spotlight this place on the food channel!
I had the catfish dinner.. only $5.95 and the best I've ever eaten! The hushpuppies are heavenly and the coleslaw and white beans... YUM!
Great down home cookin and very friendly people. We all had full happy tummies!
But no matter how full ya can't leave without some homemade pie!
So I had some great family time before we started out on the great adventure. Not too many pics.. we were on a mission to get to AZ in two days... It was dark when we left home and this is Missouri... we drove through All of the ozarks I think and we saw TREES for hours!
Sleep time...
great travelers...
Breakfast at McD's... Mmmmmmm
On to Oklahoma... I was trying to get a picture of that indian statue
VERY windy here... which was the ONLY bad part of the trip. We both got dust embedded eyes and Aimee had an eye that looked like a cherry by the time we got to the hotel. Everywhere we stopped the wind and dust sandblasted our eyes. Something we did not anticipate.. We got medicine for Aimees eye and it got better and I ruined my first pair of contacts.. wore my glasses part of the time (and had my sunglasses on top of them... I did NOT look glasmorous on this trip) then used another pair of contacts! I'm staying home from work today not because I'm tired, but to get my eyes back to normal.. because I can't even think about putting contacts in my eyes!
We stayed at the Hampton Inn in Clinton Oklahoma (yep we checked out the big cities!) we just COULDN'T drive any further... VERY nice and a much needed place to rest. We drove for 14 hours on Saturday!
All ready for another day of driving!
Amarillo by morning!!... here we are at ANOTHER McD's
We saw a LOT of NOTHING in Texas...
See all the WIND... STILL windy when we stopped in Tucumcari New Mexico.
Happy little travelers! (with a little help from grammy's bag of STUFF that would appear at just the right time!)
A whole LOT more NOTHING in New Mexico! If the world gets too overpopulated there is plenty of room still in Texas and New Mexico!
Yay.. a Taco Bell this time... (I can't believe how excited I was for Taco Bell!) we really ate high on the hog on this trip! (notice Aimee is covering her eye... see eye story above)
The end of the trip... most of the car is covered in bug guts from several states. We drove 15 hours on Sunday. I don't have a great
here we are at home finally pic cuz it was late, dark and we just wanted to get to bed and close ours eyes and hope our eyeballs would still be there in the morning. But I will say that this 1600 mile long trip was very pleasant, the weather was good, the car drove smooth, the girls were cute and great and Aimee was a joy to be with. We are VERY thankful (and thanks to map quest... we never got lost once... although we questioned a little of mapquests definition of HIGHWAY through some little towns in Kentucky and Missouri)that we made it home safely!Family is great and it is GREAT to be home!
The corn fields were plentiful in Kentucky. I wish they were ready to harvest...
We went into this Amish store... I wished I lived by one of these.. It was food storage heaven.... bulk food, fresh butter and canned stuff (and the BEST gummy worms I've ever eaten... really!) and the coolest thing was they had a big glass window you could look through and watch the women make this stuff. I sooo wanted to take a picture of them because I was so impressed.. but I respected their culture and privacy.
and here is a picture of their newest addition... Snowball the rat!
We did a little family time and got ready to go to my favorite place for dinner...
The Wood Shed!!!! I can't say enough about how GOOD (everything I've had is great... I go there everytime I'm in Kentucky) and cheap their food is!!! They should spotlight this place on the food channel!
I had the catfish dinner.. only $5.95 and the best I've ever eaten! The hushpuppies are heavenly and the coleslaw and white beans... YUM!
Great down home cookin and very friendly people. We all had full happy tummies!
But no matter how full ya can't leave without some homemade pie!
So I had some great family time before we started out on the great adventure. Not too many pics.. we were on a mission to get to AZ in two days... It was dark when we left home and this is Missouri... we drove through All of the ozarks I think and we saw TREES for hours!
Sleep time...
great travelers...
Breakfast at McD's... Mmmmmmm
On to Oklahoma... I was trying to get a picture of that indian statue
VERY windy here... which was the ONLY bad part of the trip. We both got dust embedded eyes and Aimee had an eye that looked like a cherry by the time we got to the hotel. Everywhere we stopped the wind and dust sandblasted our eyes. Something we did not anticipate.. We got medicine for Aimees eye and it got better and I ruined my first pair of contacts.. wore my glasses part of the time (and had my sunglasses on top of them... I did NOT look glasmorous on this trip) then used another pair of contacts! I'm staying home from work today not because I'm tired, but to get my eyes back to normal.. because I can't even think about putting contacts in my eyes!
We stayed at the Hampton Inn in Clinton Oklahoma (yep we checked out the big cities!) we just COULDN'T drive any further... VERY nice and a much needed place to rest. We drove for 14 hours on Saturday!
All ready for another day of driving!
Amarillo by morning!!... here we are at ANOTHER McD's
We saw a LOT of NOTHING in Texas...
See all the WIND... STILL windy when we stopped in Tucumcari New Mexico.
Happy little travelers! (with a little help from grammy's bag of STUFF that would appear at just the right time!)
Yay.. a Taco Bell this time... (I can't believe how excited I was for Taco Bell!) we really ate high on the hog on this trip! (notice Aimee is covering her eye... see eye story above)
The end of the trip... most of the car is covered in bug guts from several states. We drove 15 hours on Sunday. I don't have a great here we are at home finally pic cuz it was late, dark and we just wanted to get to bed and close ours eyes and hope our eyeballs would still be there in the morning. But I will say that this 1600 mile long trip was very pleasant, the weather was good, the car drove smooth, the girls were cute and great and Aimee was a joy to be with. We are VERY thankful (and thanks to map quest... we never got lost once... although we questioned a little of mapquests definition of HIGHWAY through some little towns in Kentucky and Missouri)that we made it home safely!Family is great and it is GREAT to be home!
2 comments:
You are so nice to fly into Kentucky and do that drive-yuck! I can't believe the kids were so great about it too. Great picture's.
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