Well , We did it! And, yes we are all still alive to tell about it. Some of us are a little worse for wear and have the battle wounds to prove it, but overall we did well driving to Denver and back. Oh and are there stories. Let's start with just he mishaps of the 18 hour drive out there.
We drove straight through hoping that the children would sleep through the night and my sister, the hubby and I could take shifts driving and sleeping. Not at the same time . It was a lot better than we all thought it would be and we all were in pretty good spirits.
Iowa was not very friendly though. We somehow took a wrong turn. We did eventually get back on track but not before hitting and killing a bird ( I do remember in driver's ed the instructor saying that the chance of hitting a bird is extremely low. I think he lied. ) and having a semi, who swerved for a windturbine peice threw a rock and chipped the windshield. Don't ask why, but I just found all of this rather comical.
Nebraska was wet! Which would not have been a problem except that the bird damaged the wiper blades, high winds and an unbelievable lightning show. The blade we replaced with an extra that we happened to bring along. And the lightning wouldn't have been problematic though it had a strobe effect and made our eyes feel a little buggy.
We made it though , a little tired and ready to explore. I will leave it here. Hopefully, next time I will have the photos to help tell the rest of the story. till then.
We drove straight through hoping that the children would sleep through the night and my sister, the hubby and I could take shifts driving and sleeping. Not at the same time . It was a lot better than we all thought it would be and we all were in pretty good spirits.
Iowa was not very friendly though. We somehow took a wrong turn. We did eventually get back on track but not before hitting and killing a bird ( I do remember in driver's ed the instructor saying that the chance of hitting a bird is extremely low. I think he lied. ) and having a semi, who swerved for a windturbine peice threw a rock and chipped the windshield. Don't ask why, but I just found all of this rather comical.
Nebraska was wet! Which would not have been a problem except that the bird damaged the wiper blades, high winds and an unbelievable lightning show. The blade we replaced with an extra that we happened to bring along. And the lightning wouldn't have been problematic though it had a strobe effect and made our eyes feel a little buggy.
We made it though , a little tired and ready to explore. I will leave it here. Hopefully, next time I will have the photos to help tell the rest of the story. till then.
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