Trip Across the Country

So Cayden and I are finally home. Its a good thing we are because my dad told me Jared was walking around like a lost puppy without us. ; ) We had so much fun with my grandparents and we will miss them very much. Cayden loves his "Elmer" (great granddaddy). Every time Granddaddy went to take a nap you were sure to hear him ask where "Elmer" was. He tried numerous times to sneak in and wake Granddaddy up. It was very cute. Great Grandmommy spoiled us all rotten. We celebrated 4 different birthdays while we were in Florida and Cayden got a gift at every celebration. We sure do love Grandmomy and Granddaddy Loso. We hope they will be able to join us in Colorado SOON!

Anyway, we left Wednesday to start our drive home from Florida. We didn't get out as early as we'd hoped because it seemed as if EVERYTHING was going wrong. But we finally made it on the road again. We stopped in Perry Georgia for the night. Thursday morning we got up and began driving again. We made it to St. Louis, MO and stopped just west of it so we could get one more good night sleep. Friday morning we woke up with the determination to make it home and we arrived home around 11:30 pm. Cayden was such a trooper. I'm so glad he is such a great traveler. We made lots of stops to get out and run around. And towards the end he got pretty good about telling me when he needed his diaper changed. We had so much fun driving home. I forgot how much I really do enjoy driving across our beautiful country. I'm grateful to be back home now, even if it means getting back to reality.

So on our drive home I noticed many different things about certain states in our country. I thought it would be fun to share my findings with you.

YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN _______ WHEN.....

YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN FLORIDA WHEN...

• Almost everyone has a swimming pool in their back yard
• You get out of the shower and dry off but still feel wet
• You walk out the door and sweat instantly
• You need a jacket inside instead of outside because the air conditioner is set to freeze
• You check every body of water you come across hoping to see an alligator

YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN GEORGIA WHEN...

• Every other billboard on the interstate is about peaches and nuts
• There is a cop in a speed trap every 10 miles
• There is a Chick-fil-A at every exit
• Chick-fil-A has flowers on the table and brings your food to you
• Every restaurant sells peach milkshakes
• The Hotels in Perry are packed because of the Jr. Rodeo

Chick-fil-A in GA

Yeah, the dang Jr. Rodeo really was in town

YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN TENNESSEE WHEN...

• You finally see mountains again, even if they are green
• Every other billboard is about fireworks
• You stop at Taco Bell and they give you bouncy balls for change because they ran out of quarters
• The only Subway you can find is in a Wal-Mart
• The drivers are psychotic!

Tennessee change from Taco Bell

YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN KENTUCKY WHEN...

• It only takes and hour and a half to drive through
• You have to sit in the back seat because your little brother is driving and you fear for your life so you try to take your mind off his driving by pulling out a Sesame Street coloring book and coloring a picture of Bert (Timmy actually didn't drive as badly as I thought he would)

YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN ILLINOIS WHEN...

• You have to change interstates 3 different times
• You don't even realize you are in Illinois

YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN MISSOURI WHEN...

• There is a Cracker Barrel at every other exit
• You can see the Gateway Arch from the interstate
• You have to drive in down pouring rain and everyone around you wants to drive 20 mph
• It is difficult to find a nice hotel just off the interstate (luckily we finally found a Holiday Inn)

Riding the luggage cart at our hotel in MO

YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN KANSAS WHEN...

• You cross the state border and can smell coffee
• You can smell the manure outside even with the air circulator on
• The manure smell goes away and you smell fresh cut grass
• The fresh cut grass smell goes away and begins to smell like a sweaty soccer cleat
• There are corn fields on both sides of the interstate
• There are no more corn fields all you can see is sunflower fields
• There is only Cracker Barrel off of I-70 (that's where we decided to stop and eat)
• It takes all the day light to get through the dang state!!!

Cayden SMOKIN Timmy at a friendly game of Checkers

YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN COLORADO WHEN...

• You see the sign that says "Welcome to Colorful Colorado"
• The speed limit FINALLY goes back up to 75
• You only have to drive 2.5 hours more before you get to Denver
• You stop outside of Limon and find a VERY ghetto Wendy's
• You pull in front of your home and your husband is running down the stairs to greet you

It was a fun drive but its good to be home.

~LOVE TO ALL~