Day 2…of HELL!!

No, I’m joking…it has only been partial hell.

I’m gonna go back just a bit. As we were packing the trailer the other day, Tigger, my idiot goofy dog found a ziplock bag on the floor that was full of multi-vitamins and fish oil pills that had been left on the floor by my idiot absent-minded husband, because the floor IS the best place to store such items, especially when you have at least one dog that will chew up just about anything he can get his little teeth on. (Remind me to tell you later about the thief and destroyer of all female panties in the house. OK, maybe not…it’s kinda gross…STUPID DOG!!) By the way, Tigger fished out the Xanax prescription bottle out of my purse the day before that and attempted to break into the tamper resistant bottle. Luckily he failed…barely.

Back to the vitamin story…after some quick research I found out we had to feed the culprit 1-2 tbsp. of hydrogen peroxide. Cheers, Tigger! Within a few minutes the poor little guy was puking his guts out again and again all over the backyard. So the kid that was being least helpful with the packing had the job of following him around to make sure he puked it all up and to not let him eat said puke, as he is prone to do. Good times!

Now back to the trip today. We got a bit of a late start from the lovely town of O’fallen, IL, which was perfect since we wanted it to be light outside to see the St Louis Arch, a first for me and the girls, since Blain partially grew up in Kansas City, MO, he had seen it before. Gotta say…AWESOME! Just a beautiful piece of architecture or maybe it’s art…ah, hell, truth be told, it’s a little bit of both.

(See Blain with the Uhaul trailer in front of me…fun, huh!?)

And we saw Busch Stadium too.

Also, gotta say…St Louis is kinda trashy otherwise. Sorry, it had to be said. But, there were quite a few beautiful churches/cathedrals amongst the run down buildings with broken windows.

Most of the rest of the day was spent traveling across MO, hanging a right in Kansas City and north to Iowa and Nebraska. There really isn’t much to say about IA and NE. Let me sum those two oup real quick like…Flat. Farms. Boring.

We went over the Missouri River. Lula was my passenger today and did a great job of taking pictures out the sun roof.

Two most interesting things about todays trip (besides the obvious Arch encounter):

1. Missouri is choke FULL of sexual deviants, apparently. We saw tons of billboards for sex shops, adult stores, lingerie stores, etc. My favorite sign was for The Adult Superstore with a huge billboard that specifically stated in VERY large letters “Try Before You Buy”, along with equally large and even more disturbing letters saying, “Returns and Refurbished Toys – Deep Discounts”. Are you fucking kidding me?! GROSS!!! I can not make this shit up people!!! And you know damn well, there are people out there who buy that shit! (hurling violently now!) I didn’t have enough time to pull out the camera to get a shot of it, but I did get a shot of the XXX Store that popped up in the middle of no where. I guess farming communities just don’t have anything better to do with their time.

2. We got our first snow flakes just before we hit Kansas City. They weren’t good ol’ big fat SLC snow flakes, but it was snow all the same. The kids were delighted. And it wasn’t bad enough to make our travel slow down by much at all.

Best, best, best part of the day is saved for last. Midway through the day we stopped to refuel at a truck stop and I picked up a heated massage padded chair for my truck. It didn’t completely cure my chronic trip back pain, but it sure helped make it more bearable.

Tomorrow…endless miles of nothingness through Nebraska and into Wyoming, stopping in Laramie for the night.