This may have been the road trip of the decade... The BIG college move!!
We, Chris and I, decided to let Marz take my car to school so she could "practice" her driving. After all, she is almost 19, and has only driven a total of six months in her whole life. Her only chance for driving is in the summer when we come home from Asia. So the only way to get the car to school is have a GIRLS ROAD TRIP!!!
So we loaded up the car with pretty much everything Marz owns and my stuff to leave to go back home to Tembagapura. The car was FULL!! and we haven't even started shopping!! But I wasn't too concerned because my stuff for Indo was going to be dropped off at my sisters to be picked up at a later date... My stuff was three suitcases... ;)
Believe it or not, but we got it all stuffed in the car!! But we still have a minor problem... Where are we going to put "TROUBLE"? More to come on that...
Day 1... To Omaha, NE we go...
On our way to Omaha, we stopped by South Dakota State U to visit my niece, who had just started school that day.
Then we stopped for lunch at a burger joint. You see, our intention was not to eat at any chain restaurant and only find mom and pop joints, but we kinda failed at that... At this burger joint, we splurged and got a burger and milk shake! I was on a sugar high, so we got back in the car and headed down the highway.
Marz looks way better at this straw drinking picture thingy... ;)
After the sugar high, the crash always comes and I was getting tired... But remember, my almost 19 year old hasn't driven much, and I wasn't sure she was ready for 80 mph down the interstate... We decided that we would take the "back roads" to get to Omaha. So, Marz ended up in the drivers seat! Heaven help me!! ;)
Another great plan of ours was to stop at EVERY one of these historical markers along side the road! We stopped at one! It was boring! We never stopped again!! LOL!!
Then Marz found this Swedish Heritage Center. It was locked.
She tried to break in! ;)
We are now in small town Nebraska. I'm sure everyone knows everyone in this town... which explains why we had sooooo many people staring at us as they drove by. I guess it could be, just maybe, because there were two blondish gals walking around the streets with big hair... maybe... ;)
Onwards we drive... We are still about an hour ++ from Omaha and Marz is still driving... All I am going to say is that I am alive and well today writing this blog! We made it! ;) Actually Marz did quite well driving in a LARGE city for the very first time!
Now why did we go south through Omaha? Well, for a few reasons.
1. I did not want to drive through Minneapolis or Chicago
2. We needed to find TROUBLE in Des Moines
3. There was an Outlet Mall in Omaha and Marz and I had an extra day before we could pick up TROUBLE. So why not?? ;)
As I wrote before, we had to drop my stuff off at my sisters. Why we had to do this is so we fit TROUBLE in the car with us... Well after a day of shopping, we pretty much filled up TROUBLES spot...
Sorry! No room for you!! ;)
TROUBLE found us!!
Most people know TROUBLE as my sister. She joined us to help with the driving and the big move to school... That and to hold my hand... ;)
Now we are on our way to our next pit stop. Antique Archeology. aka American Pickers
Have to say, this was anticlimactic... :( It's cool to see some of the different parts of the show, but there wasn't a whole lot of antiques to view and the place was smaller than it looks on TV.
Marz, that is a great model shot if I've ever seen one... ;)
Now, I am pretty sure this shirt was made for us and became the theme of our Road Trip! LOL!!!
Onward to South Bend! We decided to make this a stop on the Road Trip because we were going to stay at a retirement community, I Kid You Not!!, to "save" our money! Yes, laughable because the only other thing we have done on the road is SHOP!! Brandei's husband runs these retirement homes, which is why we had a "free" room.
Well, well, well. Guess what??? When we got to South Bend, around 7 pm, we found a shopping center on our way to Primrose (retirement home)! And we SHOPPED!! We closed the stores down!! Now since it was after 10 at night, we decided we probably shouldn't stay in our "free" room, because we would have had to walk through the memory care unit, or something like that, and we probably would have made enough noise to wake everyone up. Sooooo we found a hotel and drove through the worse part of town to get there!! I tell you!! ;)
The next day we were to get up and go visit Notre Dame and be in Hillsdale around noon.... well.... Did I tell you TROUBLE and Marz like to shop??? Well, they like to be tourists too! Our "ok, lets only do two hours here and then go shopping" turned into about four hours at Notre Dame and then lunch and then MORE shopping!!
Notre Dame was pretty cool. ;)
Trying to get a pic with the three of us and "Touchdown Jesus" in the picture. I tell you no one, NO ONE was staring at us!! Freaks!! ;) lol!
Random ducks...
No one was staring at us here either! We really need a selfie stick!
Brandei doing what she does...
A guy offered to take our photo... We finally got one without having a head chopped off!
What Marz wanted to see...
Other random pictures...
Remember we were doing shopping after Notre Dame. Marz had to travel like this for a bit... Well, actually not really... we had a second car at this point!! LOL!! Again, not kidding!!
We finally get to Hillsdale, check into the hotel, and decide to walk around. Well the hotel is not far from Marz's dorm, so we walk down there to check it out. The dorm mom was there and asked if we wanted to move Marz's stuff in that night. So we did.
Then we went to Walmart... Will it fit in the car?? Of course... The story of our Road Trip!!
We finally got to bed Friday night at midnight. We had arrived!! :D
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