We're Here!

We finally made it to Florida. It's HOT and HUMID!! We drove through Wyonming, Nebraska, tiny bit of Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, and then Florida. It was soooo beautiful driving here. And unfortunately because I was driving one of the cars the whole time I couldn't snap pictures out the window like I was wishing I could. I thought, it's sooo pretty, why do we live out west!! Then I watched the news AFTER driving through Nebraska, Iowa and Wyoming...we missed the tornados by only a couple days!! That's sort of scary.
We crossed so many pretty rivers. The Mississippi was brown and very high. The Tennessee and Ohio rivers were so big! It was a great adventure. Daniel drove in front with up to two kids and I followed in the Dodge Van with the rest. The kids only saw the beauty of the drive when I yelled at them to look out the window at how pretty it was. They watched a lot of movies on the way. That would have been a dream come true when I was a kid. I dreamed of having a tv in the car when Dad would drive aaaaallllll day on family vacations.
We stopped in St. Lewis, Missouri to see the Arch and ate lunch on the brown Mississippi river.




























We were welcomed to Florida by a HUGE monsoon rainstorm, only 56 miles from our final destination! It was so bad we had to pull off to the side of the freeway and wait a while. We pulled back on, only to realize it was still really bad and got off at the next exit to wait some more. About a half hour later, we were able to resume the trip. Anyway, we made it to our hotel safe and sound and celebrated our arrival by eating at Chili's (Thanks, McBrides for the gift certificate!!!). Did I mention Florida's HOT?