Iowa 2015: Day 1

Monday 7/13

Every summer we travel the 12 hours to my grandpa’s house in Southeast Iowa. It’s a long car ride and super boring but we love going every year and always have fun. Just like we did last year. So it’s totally worth it. Our original plan was to head out last Saturday and then stay overnight in Kansas and get to my grandpa’s Sunday night. Well….thanks to my brother’s baseball tournament running late and Morgan inviting a friend we got backtracked two days and ended up leaving at 6:00am on Monday. Headed to Omaha, Nebraska.

Six people minus dad tightly packed into our car with all of our luggage at 6:00 Monday morning. I mean now you understand why i’d look like I do hahah.

An hour into our car ride I was checking the blog and reading yours 🙂

And by 8:17 I cracked open my coffee and started munching on some almonds…#roadtripprobz

Usually if I wake up at any point in the morning, I can’t go back to sleep. So at 8:30am I started into my book (which i’ve finished already and loved FYI).

And these people were straight SNOOZIN’ around me.

All goners. It took 2 hours for them to finally stop yapping and go to sleep so I could focus on my book. I know, right? SO rude and inconsiderate.

By 9:00 we hit Norman, Oklahoma. Home to the University of Oklahoma. We had to stop at the Walmart and check on the carrying case with our luggage on the top of the car because mom thought it sounded weird. And apparently she decided to wait until we were 3 hours into the car ride and everyone was asleep. Okay mom.

After a couple more potty breaks and a lunch stop at McDonalds…we were at my uncle’s house for dinner by 6:40pm. Beer canned chicken for the win.

With the most delicious potatoes you’ll ever have.

I mean…thank goodness i’m not a vegetarian because this meal was delicious. And my uncle is an amazing cook!

We had a big ol’ crew of 12 people eating some good ol’ grub. What a great start to family vacation!

By 8:15 my Aunt and I realized that we were missing out on the Bachelor!!! So we ran inside to turn it on and well, that’s just another story for a different time. This season of the Bachelor is something else and I really think she’s going to end up with a loser either way. #itwontworkkaitlyn

After that meal we were all exhausted and headed back to my aunt and cousin’s house where we were staying to go to sleep.

And that was day 1 of vacation! I love July just for this reason.