Julie's View

Hi Everyone,
So glad our blog has a wide readership!! Anyone who knows the level of my computer skills knows why I haven't written yet!! We are having an interesting time . Tonight was an eye-opening experience. We ate at Applebees and they didn't serve sweet tea!! The girls were aghast! I think travel makes a person appreciate many things. I appreciate:
1) The mattresses in Marriotts
2) The new Harry Potter book (Hannah is quiet for hours)
3) A husband who likes to drive
4) Free breakfasts
5) Wearing no makeup and the same clothes(after all we will never see these people again)
6) Cars with DVD's
We are all excited about Colorado tomorrow and are leaving early so good night...
PS.Kim, Fort Hays State College is here. We rode around and looked at it. It was cute. I still don't understand how Jeff got here. Must have been a long trip

It's a looooong way to Hays, Kansas.....

Why in the world did Dorothy want to go home??? Home to what???? We drove....and drove....and drove today. I think we decided that we drove for almost 9 hours. The praries of Kansas are really pretty cool. Not much on them. Will kept looking for prarie dogs, and we saw three.........dead on the road. The last hour we began to see oil wells. Julie said that there is absolutely no overpopulation of the earth. All you have to do is transplant people to Kansas, and everyone would have more than enough land. The Kansas turnpike toll booth gave us the humor for the day, as I asked the young lady in the booth "Are there any tornadoes up yonder?" to which she laughed and replied, "No". Julie was so embarrassed that she covered her face with pillows, while the kids laughed and laughed.
Today we played scavenger hunt while driving....so you know it must have been a looooong drive. Tomorrow, we are up early, and driving to Colorado Springs. It is 5 hours, and we plan to be there for lunch. The afternoon is full with a visit to the "garden of the gods", a visit to the Air Force Academy and then a dinner at the Flying W Ranch.
I noticed that no one is leaving us any comments.....we solicit....no, we LIVE for those! O.K., so maybe we aren't that desperate, but we do like them. In fact we discuss as we are pulling into a new town "I wonder who has left us a comment?"
Till next time....
----WJLsr

Tuesday Morning and it's cold.....

No, not the temperature. It is what I have. I felt it coming on yesterday, and this morning I have it....a cold. Coughing.....grunge. Oh, well. Gotta push through. It is 7:40 Central Time, and we are going to try to leave by 9:00 a.m. No going up the arch. The news says the lines are long, long, long.
One more interesting tidbit....last night I was opening a starbucks coffee (cold one in a bottle). The lid burst off and coffee went everywhere. All over Julie's pocketbook, her two pillows, her magazine, my shirt, her shirt, the corner of the bed.
This morning, when we woke up, Julie looked at me and said, "I woke up to the smell coffee....would you go and get me some?" I told her "You are smelling the corner of the bed....". Her reply...."You're right....no wonder I dreamed about coffee all night long."
Well..gotta go. Too much to do, and my nose is running.
---WJLsr