California ahoy!

After nearly 2800 long long long miles we made it to California last night at around 11pm local time. We did stop for less than 10 hours at a hotel somewhere between Denver, Colorado and Cheyenne, Wyoming. We saw antelope in Wyoming and counted 72 oil rigs from Kansas through Wyoming. Caden watched his favorite movie "Twister" literally 18 times and was obsessed with tornado's the whole time. Caden called Kansas "tornado world" and Nevada "desert land". We are all glad to get out of the car, though. We have been taking a lot of pictures, so eventually, I will update the blog with scenery pics etc. It looks like I have an Internet connection here, so I can update this week with all of our action and adventures!

the adventure is on...

Caden and I were supposed to be catching an airplane tomorrow. Instead we are driving to California. It seems out wonderful credit card flagged our ticket purchase as possible fraud (because we rarely use the card) but neglected to notify us until Sunday night. Now the flight are outrageously expensive...so...our option? Drive! Woo hoo, Caden shed a few tears because he really loves flying and we just drove from Michigan to South Carolina like three times in the last few months. But all is well now, the contract Paul is working on is in its initial stages so he has two weeks he can work from phone/computer etc, so it seemed that it was go now or never.
We are planning on possibly camping or just driving mostly straight through. We will see.

We gave Caden a digital camera so he can document the drive and we will print pics and put it in a scrapbook when we get home, that idea dried up his tears.

So posting may be sketchy for the next two weeks, depending on connection and time. Hope you have a great two weeks! See you soon!