August 8 – Kansas and Missouri (more driving)

We spent the night in Oakley, KS, and had breakfast at some weird trucker stop where they served my oatmeal without any raisins or brown sugar, and when I asked for it the woman looked surprised, like I hadn’t been promised raisins or brown sugar by the menu. Outrageous. =P

Anyway.

We left Oakley and drove like mad.

We saw more wind farms.

These are so pretty! How can anyone think they are an eyesore? I love how white and weird and wonderful they look.

Basically that was it. It wasn’t an interesting day. I don’t think we stopped for lunch. We got very good at eating marshmallows and tortilla chips and M&Ms for lunch on this trip. Yum.

We got into St. Louis somewhat late and had trouble finding a place to stay. Camping was too far outside the city, and hotels were way hard to find. But we were settled, finally, after much drama and my demanding that everyone stop telling me how to drive and look for hotels instead.

We got to watch the 2008 Puppy Games (dad was disgusted, while the rest of us squee’ed at puppies), and then we had a late dinner in the Italian restaurant (fancypants) downstairs, while watching the Olympic Opening Ceremonies.

Hooray Olympics!

Then we went to bed.