Road Trip Part 2 or "Why Is There So Much Kansas?"

Day 2, also known as the day we crossed Kansas, began bright and early again at 4:00am (central time in case you were wondering). Here is a picture of Vyonne and I looking oh so lovely as we were about to head out the door. Vyonne is from Kansas and so are our two good friends Nick and Amelia so we dressed appropriately for our trip across the Sunflower (not Sunshine) State and sent them this picture to commemorate the momentous occasion.

The first leg of the trip took us through a national forest, American Indian reservations, and finally Oklahoma in some crazy bad weather. And by crazy I mean we were listening to the radio for tornado warnings and it was pitch black outside. But we made it to Kansas in one piece. And Amanda saw a fox that she was really excited about and Vyonne and I ignored her because sleep = more important than a fox apparently.

Kansas was exciting, for the first few hundred miles. How pretty is that picture?! But it's pretty much flat. And long. This was the most exciting scenery that we encountered in our 8 hour or so Kansas Adventure. Shout out for renewable energy! (Yes, I was a science teacher and I'm cool like that.)

But don't worry, we found many a way to entertain ourselves. Like creative opening of coke bottles. Sometimes you just have to have caffeine and sugar and a pail of fingernail clippers will do in a pinch.

Isn't Juneau such a good sport? Well the nugget, as she is affectionately called, was a good sport all day and Amanda kept us entertained by dressing Juneau up and posing her as a person.

(Side note: she is wearing that shirt because she had a cut, not because I regularly dress up my dog. Although, she does look pretty darn cute!)

Such a good dog.

And then we finally arrived in COLORADO!

Where we stopped and took pictures because a.) we're dorks like that and b.) we were that excited to be out of Kansas (sorry Nick and Amelia!)

Vyonne and I attempted a jumping picture to illustrate our excitement...

FAIL.

However, we quickly realized that eastern Colorado looks a lot like western Kansas. So we continued to entertain ourselves...

We FINALLY arrived at our new house around 5:00 Mountain Time Sunday night.

And the unpacking commenced, more to come on that later...