Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Monday, July 28, 2008

To Sum Up Our Roadtrip

(Still dragging this out...)
1. driver: me
2. navigator: T
3. favorite places: the cowboy museum in Oklahoma City, the Denver Art Museum, Mount Rushmore, the Badlands
4. miles driven: 3,500
5. days on the road: 11
6. highest point reached: 14,110 feet on Pikes Peak
7. lowest point reached: dinner at a Chili's in downtown Denver when we were unable to find any other place to eat

THE END!

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Wildlife We Saw on our Roadtrip

  1. cows, cows, cows
  2. deer
  3. rabbits
  4. prairie dogs
  5. buffalo
  6. pheasant
  7. mouse
  8. goats
  9. geese
  10. mudbirds (?)
  11. ducks
  12. butterflied
  13. other birds
  14. horses
  15. chipmunks
  16. sheep
  17. donkey
  18. mule
  19. heirloom chickens (?)

And Dead Wildlife We Saw on our Roadtrip:
  1. mouse
  2. raccoons
  3. deer
  4. armadillo

Saturday, July 26, 2008

What We Did - Part 11

1. The Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD!!!



2. The interior is mostly pictures of the corn palace, and corn murals.



3. And more corn murals.



4. And corn murals over a stage. Overall it's pretty awesome.



5. Then we got the heck out of Mitchell, SD, and went to Souix Falls and saw Souix Falls. It's very pretty.



6. From there we drove to Omaha, NE, where we had lunch and went to one of the best used bookstores ever, but unfortunately did not have time to go to the Bemis Center.
7. We drove through Iowa and Missouri and those other rectangular-shaped states, which at the time were just starting to show evidence of flooding.
8. Spent the night in Kansas City, KS. This is us in Kansas.



9. On the last day of our trip we drove through places we've already driven through: Missouri and Arkansas. We listened to Steve Martin's book read by Steve Martin (thanks, HD!) and finally made it home.

Friday, July 25, 2008

What We Did - Part 10

Just so you know - I'll drag this out for as long as I feel like it!

1. We went to the Badlands! It is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.



2. It made me think about painting - not about looking at art, but about the act of painting, or the paint itself.









3. The Badlands and the grasslands are just right there up against each other.



4. Prairie dogs!



5. Bunny rabbits!



6. Me.

Monday, July 21, 2008

Adding to Words I've Recently Heard Used as Verbs

Original list

5. calendar

More from Part 9

I forgot to list a few things from Wall Drug:
7. Saw lots of cowboy art
8. Visited their doughnut factory
9. Played a shooting gallery arcade game and kicked butt at it
10. Ate homemade pie
11. Drank (surprisingly good) 5-cent coffee