Saturday, August 9, 2008

Over half way there!

We are finally out of Montana!!! Whooo-hoo!!! On our way out of Montana, it rained a bit. I believe Montana was crying for us. Whether it was tears of joy or sadness, I do not know. One of the first towns we came to was Home on the Range, and no, there were no deer or antelope playing. As Erik said, these are hard times. This Grasslands area was Rachon's favorite part of North Dakota. Somewhere in the middle of nowhere, we crossed our second time change. It sucks losing time like this. We also crossed the Missouri River today. It was a lot smaller than I would have thought. The cool part of North Dakota is all the random statues. We got to see Salem Sue, the world's largest Holstein cow in New Salem, North Dakota. We also got a nice picture of the largest bison. They also had a very cool sculpture of... eye geese. (See pictures later.) We pulled off in Steele, North Dakota, for lunch. It was here that we received our favorite quote of the day: "Do you want soup or salad? We're out of soup." If I could sum up North Dakota in three words, it would be Too Many Bugs!!! It was gross. But we are now past North Dakota. We have now made it to St. Paul, Minnesota. Our drive through Minnesota proved to be less exciting than expected. That's okay, it had the prettiest rest stop that we've seen so far. It had a beautiful lake with a picnic table in it.
U-Hauls seen today: 8
Penskes seen: 1
P.O.D.S. seen: 0
Roadkill: 38.... ewwww....

4 comments:

RootN4U said...

Was the picnic table in the lake?

One-N-Jen said...

Yes the picnic table was in the lake.

Suz said...

Glad the trip is going well so far! CONGRAT'S. Grandma lived in St. Paul for a few years. Anyway, have a safe rest of the trip.

suebrett said...

The trip sounds excitibng so far. The annoying bugs will turn into annoying drivers about Chicago or so. Keep on truckin'! Love ya, Mom