Hello friends, long time no see. I have decided to take up blogging yet again. I will be taking you along on our journey as we drive to South Dakota and home via those flyover states.

Monday

Today is the day we finally leave for our vacation. This is the third vacation we have planned for the same period of time. We had originally planned to go to Memphis to the zoo and see panda bears and down to the gulf coast but hurricanes…. So decided no problem will just head to the East Coast and take the girls to see the ocean for the first time and make a pitstop in Atlanta to see the panda bears, when we had to redo it and again due to Lyndie‘s broken arm, even though she does have a waterproof cast she is not allowed to get in any lake ,ocean or river water. So off we go to Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois again, and Indiana and home. This is such a long road trip we have decided to stay in several places with our ultimate goal being Rapid City, South Dakota before heading back home.

Today was pretty uneventful, we left home and drove to Chicago, Illinois of course we had to make a few pitstops along the way. Is it a full in-depth Chicago trip earlier this summer, maybe I will go back and blog about those earlier summer trips. After arriving in Chicago we went to the mall and Trinity was finally able to make her Harry Potter build a bear with the gift card she got for her birthday, Lyndie was able to find some new slip on shoes, and we all had chipotle for dinner. The best part about making a pitstop in Chicago is garrets popcorn.