Roadtrip Highlights

We pulled out of Denver at 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning to head to Yankton, SD. I had packed us a full car of food including fresh fruit, air popped pop corn, and egg salad sandwiches. After putting the dogs in their seatbelts, we were on the road for just over 8 hours when we got to DGs parents house. Some of the highlights were:

Hour 1 Talk to my parents on the phone, spot a hawk and a coyote in the median. That took up a good 15 minutes.
Hour 1.5 Eat 1/2 of the food we brought.
Hour 2 Eat the rest of the food we brought. *crap*
Hour 3 The part where I'm so bored I stare at my legs and start jiggling the fat announcing it was the fat jiggling portion of our road trip.
Hour 3.5 Crawl in the back seat with the dogs for a cuddle, but dog who has had excessive bad gas the whole trip chases me back to the front seat.
Hour 4 While filling the tank, bought DG his favorite road trip food, sunflower seeds, cheddar cheese nips, and a Twin Bing. (Rare candy from IA which consists of chocolate and crushed peanuts over a cherry nougat.)
Hour 5 Started watching Tommy Boy on the Video Ipod.
Hour 5.5 Pull down my tank top and see how long it takes for DG to notice that I've exposed myself.
Hour 6 Pass a sign for a town in Nebraska called Worms.
Hour 7 Go through the drive through Dairy Queen in Central City, NE, where they gave the dogs their own soft serve
Hour 8.5 Finally arrive DGs parents, ahhhh.



And on the return
Hour 1 painfully slow - Keep turning around to stare at the dogs and see if they are doing anything cute.
Hour 1.5 - Pout that the latte that I got leaving Yankton tastes like dirty dishwater. I accuse the coffee shop of using Folgers, whine a bit, taste the coffee again to see if it's gotten any better.
Hour 2 Turn down Dairy Queen annoucing that DG has to choose between Dairy Queen and Dunkin' Donuts
Hour 3 80's Hair metal hour dj'd by yours truly on the Ipod
Hour 4 Grabbed lunch in Grand Isle, NE and threw out entire latte from the morning.
Hour 5 Bad Navigator takes a 20 minute snooze
Hour 6 Stopped in North Platte, NE only to find that the only Dunkin' Donuts in the midwest has been shut down a year before. In desperation, DG buys a bag of smart food, diet coke and some Skoal chewing tobacco.
Hour 7 Find spit cups and throw in some chew, talk about having children. (I'll explain this one later this week.)
Hour 7.5 DJ all chick rock hour
Hour 8 A front piece of the car windshield rips off during a wind storm in Eastern Colorado, causing a bit of a scare.
Hour 9 Pull into home and give a great collective sigh of relief.

More observations on South Dakota to come...