Day 3- Monday in CO/Day 4- Tuesday in UT

On the third day, we drove from Missouri, through boring old Kansas and into Colorado. John has a cousin there in Loveland north of Denver. Kansas was pretty plain to drive through, but there were many pro-life signs along the highway, despite the evil Dr. Tiller having had a late-term abortion clinic (before he was assasinated this year).





I kept seeing signs for "The Oz Museum" so I made John take the 9 mile detour off the highway, only to find this dinky little shop that was closed! We got back on the freeway and drove on through the whole state. We couldn't wait to get to say, "We're not in Kansas anymore!"





The elevation kept rising as we approached our destination in CO, and I did get a little bit nauseaus. But we made it there fine and got to stay a night with John's cousin Lori, her husband Dave, and their 10 yr old sweet heart Sierra, who Lucas loved. Their house was beautiful and they gave us the whole downstairs. The house just kept getting bigger and the downstairs bath was huge! Lori took Sierra to school in the morning where she also works as a Teacher's Assistant. Dave made us a delicious breakfast and we were on our way. We had a little lunch at Del Taco, since CO seemed to be the furthest state east that has them!










We originally were going to try to make it from CO to CA in one day, but they told us it takes them about 18 hours! We were barely doing half that everyday, but we drove as far as we could before tuckering out in Cedar City Utah. It was so windy and loud, but the room at the Holiday Inn was a nice discount for military. We ate Panda Express Chinese, fed/washed Lucas and went to sleep.





But we enjoyed CO so much, we are stopping by again on the way back--and then going back down on route 40 so John can have his 32 oz steak at The Big Texan Steakhouse in Amarillo! Day 5, the big day in CA, to come soon!