A Road Trip to Remember

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Road Trip Picture Recap:

I'm a little to lazy to type up a huge story that consisted of our Road trip across America so I'm going to picture blog your minds off and hope that it satisfactory. If not...tough tacos. 

After our Taco Johns night we woke up the next morning and went to the gym then got ready for our next day on the road. Haley and I decided that we would dress like weirdos for this leg of the trip so that meant leg warmers and Batch Tshirts that have the most horrendous picture of my husband (before I met him) on the back with a caption that says, "Would YOU Marry this guy?!" Total Class

Good Morning Nebraska!

Then we drove into our next state:

and proceeded to drive past this sign about half a mile and then stopped and walked down the interstate to get these pictures. A cop also pulled up and asked us if we were okay...maybe it was the outfits?

Our attempt at a JUMP picture!

Walking back to the car....

Then Haley made me hold her hand haha

Our next stop was an upscale little joint known as "Cowboy Town"



Were they had the creepiest anomatronic things..this gigantic monkey played piano and sang. We all thought we were about to end up in a horror movie and get murdered so we decided to leave asap.

Group shot with the self portrait option on my camera...

The next random adventure we had in SD was at The Corn Palace!

Check out their website HERE for all the cool info on this building Made of corn...for real.

We were way to excited about everything CORN that day.

 After that we headed to Rapid City, SD for the night and stayed in the cutest little hotel ever. I didn't take any pictures of it sadly but they had heat lights in the bathroom and they were RED. I felt like I was at a night club and had intentions of doing a photo shoot in those red lights...alas that never happened.

However, we did wake up the next morning and went to the hotel gym (SCORE working out while driving across the country) and then got ready for our day exploring Mt. Rushmore and driving out to see Devils Tower. *Notice: Who the hell in their right mind works out before going to Mt. Rushmore!? I'm an IDIOT. I only ran 1 mile and did some arms, abs, and legs but then we climbed a damn Mountain. I was cursing myself the whole way up but my ass got a GREAT stair workout let me tell you.*

They were HUGE.... insert "that's what she said joke"

We decided to do FULL makeup this day. (well not CK)

Lovely ladies

We did a little rock climbing too

We climbed the Mountain and they were all over it. lol

Then it was onward to Devils Tower and another State sign picture opportunity!

Hello Wyoming

Hello double chin... bitch.

The wind was blowing like CRAZY so Haley had to help a sista out.

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Now back to Devils Tower:

If you don't know what it is I'm ashamed of you.

Remember a little movie classic "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"

Olive was just excited to get out of the car for this one.

My Momma really wanted to see this even though Aliens FREAK me out.

What's one of my biggest fears?

 Get ready to judge me but I am terrified of getting abducted.

Scares the beegeezus out of me just thinking about it.

It was really fun to see it in person though... I remember watching that movie with my mom and dad when I was little never thinking one day I'd get the chance to see it in person. Let alone I had no idea where it was until last week haha.

Now cue the Holy Crap we see UFO'S photo shoot with Momma.

Hahah I love this woman.

I guess it runs in the family.

That's all for tonight! I'll catch you up on HELL DAY tomorrow. Let me just say I'm an idiot and made us drive 1030 Miles in one 24 hour day. Up a snowing/ice covered Mountain, through Yellowstone National Park, and then ALL the way to Seattle, WA. They should have killed me.

I'll be back

My life is like one big tornado right now... we are in our new apartment and all of our stuff is here (I'm once again behind on posting and expect lots of make up posts in the future) Here's the main stuff: My mom and best friend are amazing and helping us every step of the way. My friend Jarred that lives and works up here has  helped us so much I can't even start to explain but with all that being said I still have no time to blog right now. I'll be back later this week once things are put in their place (I'm a little OCD I think) and life starts getting a little more normal. Moving is tough, but  man moving across the country is insane... and I'm crazy for doing it. So far so good though.. we are loving it.

As the terminator would say:

"I'll be back"

One of our stops on our amazing road trip... blogs to come.

PS. This world is amazing, get out there and explore it!

Do you ever feel guilty for not blogging enough?

  ---- I do!

Nebraska I loveeeeee you!

Hi, Iowa & Nebraska.

You suck for not having a Welcome sign where we could take a picture in front of it. I managed to get the above picture on our way back into Iowa after we stayed the night in S. Sioux City, NB. We came in after dark to NB so I missed that sign completely and I am totally bummed about it. (We later found out that the Hwy 29N between Kansas City, Missouri and Sioux City, Iowa had been closed for a long time due to very bad flooding from the Missouri River and had just recently been opened last week! Talk about good timing/luck for us) Driving from St. Louis to Sioux City was pretty fun though; Haley & I took lots of pictures in the car pretending that we were about to run off the road, enjoy:

Yes, that is a sombrero in the back seat

OMG

This may hurt...

During that drive we drove through NEW FLORENCE… I guess we grew up in “Old” Florence, MS but none the less we (Haley) tried to get a picture of the water tower and even though that R looks like a P we swear on our lives it said Florence.

We also stopped at NostalgiaVille USA which I thought was going to be an awesome road side attraction but ended up being a huge shop full of a bunch of shit that my Gran would have wanted.  All was not wasted though because Haley did find her some sweet new glasses:

 

Winning.

When we finally rolled into Sioux City we were all tired and HUNGRY. I swear we have barely eaten on this trip. We all are trying not to eat a bunch of junk and in turn we just keep not eating (which is terrible and giving us all headaches and bad tempers) so when we finally got to the KNIGHT’S INN (Yes, we are in the hotel business now) CK about had a heart attack when he saw what was right next door. TACO JOHNS! I have heard story after story about how Amazing Taco Johns was when it was in Laurel and how the whole city cried when it was shut down. No more Taco Tuesdays (2 tacos for .99 cents) and no more potato oles what has the world come to?! So, when CK saw that I knew what we were having for dinner and it was Taco Tuesday after all! Right after we got all of our stuff into the hotel Haley and CK happily skipped down the street and picked up 2 bags full of tacos, potato oles, and cinnamon churros. I didn’t snap any pictures due to us being so hungry that it was all immediately consumed but here’s some snap shots stolen from their website:

Tacos

Potato Oles

Churros

All Images ripped from Google

CK immediately bragged about our dinner on his Facebook and in a matter of minuets basically everyone in Laurel blew his status up with comments of jealousy. He just smiled and gobbled up all the taco goodness that he could.

The next morning I did something I have NEVER done before… I got CK and Haley up and we all went to the hotel gym! I was so excited that I basically skipped down the hall to the gym because I just have never wanted to work out while traveling before but after reading all the healthy people and running blogs I got inspired.

 However, I was completely disappointed when we got to the gym room. There was no treadmill or any cardio equipment! How can you call yourself a gym without any cardio equipment!? Bastards. I wasn’t going to turn around and walk to the donut bar though; oh no, I was going to get a workout in damnit. We ended up taking turns on each one of the weight machines and my arms and legs got a nice workout that left me hobbling to the breakfast bar. (No, I didn’t hit up the donut bar, I got wheat toast and milk bitches!)

Crappy Crap Crap Gym.

After that we hit the road for the next stop 550 miles away in Rapid City, SD I’ll fill you in on those adventures next time!

What is your favorite Restaurant that has been closed in your town?