Day 2

We woke up and had a wonderful visit with John and Sherry and had breakfast. It was short because we needed to get back on the road as it was going to be about 12 hours this time. We had to go through Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, to South Dakota.  We were thankful for the visit and letting us stay. It had been a long time since we had seen them and they had never met Jordan. Our North Carolina born baby hasn't met a lot of friends and family back home. We pulled out about 9:30

John and Sherry Morris - Boyd's good friend from the Army who they still keep in touch with.

The boys went back to bed and kept rolling...they woke up somewhere still in Indiana...

Watching the world pass by...

Road trip snacks are addicting!! Caramel Pecan Crunch! Kind of breakfast :)

Going through Illinois we passed the University of Illinois were Charlie spent three years at Law School and I enjoyed visiting him at school. That was neat for them to see where dad went to school. 

driving through Iowa we saw a nascar track that the lower class races. We saw lots of those big power windmills. There were hundreds of them in fields. You know you are in the Midwest when you can start seeing for miles...

The power windmills that line the fields in Nebraska and Iowa.

Are we there yet? How many more hours? Was the two questions we got about every hour...

More beyblades

Jake taking in that fresh cool Midwest air!!

You also know you are in the Midwest when you start seeing signs for Taco John restaurants. It's like Taco Bell chains but way better!! We got into Nebraska and heading to Soiux City, Iowa we saw lots of fireworks again as we got closer to the SD border. 

We hit rain when we got into Nebraska but only lasted until Sioux City. 

Our last gas stop came about 45 minutes from his parents...we quickly learned Jake probably was not going to do well around fireworks... It was a gas station in the middle of nowhere and people were lighting off fireworks and he as freaking out...So stopping at the big outlets for fireworks in South Dakota was not going to happen this year. 

We got to Boyd and Helen's in Viborg, South Dakota at around 10:15 pm. Charlie's parents greeted up in the driveway. The boys were so excited and relieved to be there and so was Charlie and I. The most excited was probably Jake so he could finally get out and run around the farm. He loved the open space.