After a tough start to the morning that actually turned out pretty well (a flat tire that was easily patched at Kirk's Nebraskaland Bar and Fine Dining... and Tires) we cruised through hundreds of miles of highway bordered by cornfields. Does the US grow corn anywhere else? Seems like all of it generates from here! Anyhow, some pretty country to cruise through. Half-way we tried our first Cracker Barrel which was a blast!
Seven hours later we landed in Coralville IA (a pretty cool, suburban but modern town that had a great mall to walk around and stretch our legs in). The hotel (Baymont Inn) had a "light dinner" for it's guests (sandwiches and some sort of Pasta Fazool- an Italian pasta made by an Iowaian and presented by a clerk from New York). After some dessert at the mall it was in bed by 9:30 to get a good night sleep for the final push to MI.
4:00am-- Fire Alarm!
Conditioned by my years in Lompoc my first instinct was to try to pull out the battery. No battery! Second instinct: maybe this is real and we should probably get outside. Well, after the Coralville FD came out and we walked over to the gas station across the street to buy a soda, it turned out to be s 'false alarm' (we think somebody bumped a fire pull somewhere in the hotel). So back to bed around 5am. So much for that good night sleep... maybe tomorrow- I mean tonight.
Em: Little tired of driving- glad to see light at the end of the tunnel...
Rebekah: I'm tired!!!
Danielle: (shower)
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