I know this last blog isn't "technically" needed but I didn't want it to just END. It was about a 6 hour drive home, and I was so anxious! We had originally planned to come home on Friday but we were running low on road without going outta the way and we figured one day wouldn't make much of a difference so we came home on Thursday. It felt nice to see our Welcome to Wisconsin sign and a bunch of Wisconsin license plates again!
We stopped in Madison at West Towne Mall to walk around, browse, and I ended up buying some cute pj's. We did that to waste time before our spa appointments at Rejuvenation Spa. BUT it turned out there was a miscommunication so we had to reschedule our massages for Saturday but we each got 20% off (and a couple free bottles of lotion!).
Friday, REST. And Steakfire with Mark & John. And a couple bars and re-united with a couple friends.
Saturday: spa appointments where we each got full body massages! Then Applebees with the WHOLE GANG and LOTS OF LAUGHS. And more bars, drinks, dancing, stories, & laughter (and throwing beach balls at each other on the dancefloor!)
Not ready for reality to hit yet... but the trip was worth everything.
Love Always & Forever,
Stephanie
SotD: All Good Things by Nelly Furtado
Monday, July 18, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Day 29: Iowa
We got to Le Mars, Iowa between 1 and 2pm. It's the Ice Cream Capitol of the World! We went to the Blue Bunny Ice Cream Shoppe & Museum (which by the way, they've moved! The address we found online wasn't correct. They moved to a different location downtown in their business district). Sam bought a t-shirt and I got a Neapolitan candle in a milk jar. And then we each got a chocolate dipped waffle cone with Blue Bunny chocolate chip mint ice cream. It hit the spot. ;) We wandered upstairs after a daycare class went up there for a field trip. They were sitting watching a video, which we heard parts of about the main ingredients of ice cream and how it's made. We wandered and visited the displays. There wasn't much. Just some contracts and bills signed by the founders of Blue Bunny. Lots of Blue Bunny memorabilia and old Blue Bunny milk cartons and ice cream gallons.
After we finished our ice cream, we headed towards the Best Western in Fort Dodge. They have a HUGE pool AND A HOT TUB!! We stayed about an hour in each... ;) Then we went to the restaurant attached, Buford's Steak House & Barbeque. They have really great Smoked Chicken Nachos! We also each had a steak dinner...mine with potato salad and corn on the cob and Sam's with corn on the cob and deviled eggs. I ATE SO MUCH I THINK I'M GONNA BURST! We're definitely goin' all out on our last day...
Love Always & Forever,
Stephanie
SotD's: Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers
Modern Day Drifter by Dierks Bentley
After we finished our ice cream, we headed towards the Best Western in Fort Dodge. They have a HUGE pool AND A HOT TUB!! We stayed about an hour in each... ;) Then we went to the restaurant attached, Buford's Steak House & Barbeque. They have really great Smoked Chicken Nachos! We also each had a steak dinner...mine with potato salad and corn on the cob and Sam's with corn on the cob and deviled eggs. I ATE SO MUCH I THINK I'M GONNA BURST! We're definitely goin' all out on our last day...
Love Always & Forever,
Stephanie
SotD's: Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers
Modern Day Drifter by Dierks Bentley
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Days 27 & 28: Kansas & Nebraska
We left Denver at about 10:30am. We took Sam's mom to the airport first. And we drove past the stadium of the Denver Broncos and saw a bucking blue bronco statue with red eyes by the airport!
Driving through Kansas...so glad to officially see GREEN again! It was nice to be out of desert and mountain areas. A LOT of fields, A LOT of hay...nothing too interesting to see. We booked a place to stay in Russell, Kansas...and found out it was the birthplace of Senator Bob Dole!!! For dinner, we found a local place called Waudby's Bar & Grill...had famous home-made chips and cheese sauce (which was GREAT!). We also had a couple strawberry margaritas, I had a bacon cheeseburger (one of the best I've had) and Sam had a Santa Fe chicken sandwich which she really liked. I RECOMMEND EATING LOCAL AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN! I've never been disappointed.
Today we left about 11am. Itinerary for the day: Garden of Eden in Lucas Kansas, largest ball of sisal twine in Cawker City, Kansas and the geographic center of the 48 states of the continental U.S. in Lebanon, Kansas. (After passing the town of Waldo! "WE FOUND WALDO!")
Here's some links:
Geographic Center: http://www.kansastravel.org/geographicalcenter.htm
Largest Sisal Twine Ball: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/8543
Garden of Eden: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2103
The largest ball of sisal twine was pretty neat. They also have a painted twine trail on the sidewalk and if you walk their historic Wisconsin Street, all the local buildings have interpreted classic paintings in their windows...with the addition of a ball of twine in each one! (By the way, you can buy twine and add to the ball!)
The geographic center of the U.S also has a tiny chapel at it! How bizarre would it be to get married there!?
My favorite place had to be the Garden of Eden. Not only was it magnificent to look at but the stories and the history of it is JUST AMAZING. It was built by Samuel Dinsmoor, as both home and tourist attraction. His home is made of limestone but in a log-cabin style rather than brick. He also has a TON of amazing limestone sculptures, of religious and political importance and interpretation. Adam and Eve greet you at the gate before you enter a trellis walkway. There's also sculptures of the devil, an all-seeing eye, angels, Cain & Abel, the Labor crucified, and sculptures reflecting his views of monopolies and also how he believed everyone had a right to vote (at a time when women and African-Americans were not allowed).
He was a very inventive, creative and eccentric person. His strawberry garden was on a pyramid of limestone because he didn't like to bend down to pick them. He handmade all the sculptures and lots of features of the house. All the doorways in the house are different sizes whether it be length or height and he did that purposely to have everyone tour the whole house. In the corner of his garden, he erected a pyramid mausoleum for him and his wife to be buried when they died. (By the way, did I mention that Mr. Dinsmoor is only 5'2" and married his wife on horseback before "stunts" like that were acceptable?) The county would not allow him to bury his wife in the erected mausoleum when she died so she was buried in the cemetery...he went there, dug her up, and buried her in the mausoleum and covered her casket in concrete so she couldn't be taken away again. (By, the way he is also now buried there in a concrete casket...with practically hermetically sealed glass so that you can actually view his remains...this our tour guide said was because "He still wanted to be able to make money after he died.") OH, and sometime after his 1st wife died he married again at the age of 83...to a 20 year old and had a couple kids!
There are so many more stories and quirks about this guy and this place, and I LOVED every bit of it! If you ever go through Kansas, go to the Garden of Eden and DEFINITELY pay for the tour (all monies go to the preservation of the house and sculptures). It's TOTALLY worth it.
Anyway, after an eventful day, we tried to eat local in Red Cloud, Nebraska. But APPARENTLY they close between 2 and 5 (lunch ends at 2 and dinner doesn't start until 5). We tried 2 different places and they both were like that! So we ended up eating at Subway...these towns are so small!! Brick roads, local places close between lunch and dinner...and if they have a movie theater they only play one movie and ONLY on the weekends! I thought Watertown or Johnson Creek were small...these towns give a WHOLE NEW PERSPECTIVE! Finally made it to the Super 8 in Norfolk, Nebraska. Pizza & cable TV for the night. Tomorrow: Iowa.
Love always & forever,
Stephanie
SotD's: Be As You Are by Kenny Chesney
I Like the Way by Darren Hayes
Driving through Kansas...so glad to officially see GREEN again! It was nice to be out of desert and mountain areas. A LOT of fields, A LOT of hay...nothing too interesting to see. We booked a place to stay in Russell, Kansas...and found out it was the birthplace of Senator Bob Dole!!! For dinner, we found a local place called Waudby's Bar & Grill...had famous home-made chips and cheese sauce (which was GREAT!). We also had a couple strawberry margaritas, I had a bacon cheeseburger (one of the best I've had) and Sam had a Santa Fe chicken sandwich which she really liked. I RECOMMEND EATING LOCAL AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN! I've never been disappointed.
Today we left about 11am. Itinerary for the day: Garden of Eden in Lucas Kansas, largest ball of sisal twine in Cawker City, Kansas and the geographic center of the 48 states of the continental U.S. in Lebanon, Kansas. (After passing the town of Waldo! "WE FOUND WALDO!")
Here's some links:
Geographic Center: http://www.kansastravel.org/geographicalcenter.htm
Largest Sisal Twine Ball: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/8543
Garden of Eden: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2103
The largest ball of sisal twine was pretty neat. They also have a painted twine trail on the sidewalk and if you walk their historic Wisconsin Street, all the local buildings have interpreted classic paintings in their windows...with the addition of a ball of twine in each one! (By the way, you can buy twine and add to the ball!)
The geographic center of the U.S also has a tiny chapel at it! How bizarre would it be to get married there!?
My favorite place had to be the Garden of Eden. Not only was it magnificent to look at but the stories and the history of it is JUST AMAZING. It was built by Samuel Dinsmoor, as both home and tourist attraction. His home is made of limestone but in a log-cabin style rather than brick. He also has a TON of amazing limestone sculptures, of religious and political importance and interpretation. Adam and Eve greet you at the gate before you enter a trellis walkway. There's also sculptures of the devil, an all-seeing eye, angels, Cain & Abel, the Labor crucified, and sculptures reflecting his views of monopolies and also how he believed everyone had a right to vote (at a time when women and African-Americans were not allowed).
He was a very inventive, creative and eccentric person. His strawberry garden was on a pyramid of limestone because he didn't like to bend down to pick them. He handmade all the sculptures and lots of features of the house. All the doorways in the house are different sizes whether it be length or height and he did that purposely to have everyone tour the whole house. In the corner of his garden, he erected a pyramid mausoleum for him and his wife to be buried when they died. (By the way, did I mention that Mr. Dinsmoor is only 5'2" and married his wife on horseback before "stunts" like that were acceptable?) The county would not allow him to bury his wife in the erected mausoleum when she died so she was buried in the cemetery...he went there, dug her up, and buried her in the mausoleum and covered her casket in concrete so she couldn't be taken away again. (By, the way he is also now buried there in a concrete casket...with practically hermetically sealed glass so that you can actually view his remains...this our tour guide said was because "He still wanted to be able to make money after he died.") OH, and sometime after his 1st wife died he married again at the age of 83...to a 20 year old and had a couple kids!
There are so many more stories and quirks about this guy and this place, and I LOVED every bit of it! If you ever go through Kansas, go to the Garden of Eden and DEFINITELY pay for the tour (all monies go to the preservation of the house and sculptures). It's TOTALLY worth it.
Anyway, after an eventful day, we tried to eat local in Red Cloud, Nebraska. But APPARENTLY they close between 2 and 5 (lunch ends at 2 and dinner doesn't start until 5). We tried 2 different places and they both were like that! So we ended up eating at Subway...these towns are so small!! Brick roads, local places close between lunch and dinner...and if they have a movie theater they only play one movie and ONLY on the weekends! I thought Watertown or Johnson Creek were small...these towns give a WHOLE NEW PERSPECTIVE! Finally made it to the Super 8 in Norfolk, Nebraska. Pizza & cable TV for the night. Tomorrow: Iowa.
Love always & forever,
Stephanie
SotD's: Be As You Are by Kenny Chesney
I Like the Way by Darren Hayes
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Days 24-26: Denver, CO
Day 24: Long drive thru NM dessert. A lil bit of rain. Tired. Stupid interstate. I feel like we’re on a Highway to Hell (fitting song for the day) Finally to Colorado. Stop at McD’s for lunch. Not sure if the drive from Seattle to Portland is better or worse than the drive from Colorado Springs to Denver. Finally arrive in Denver and meet up at Sam’s brother’s Niels’ place. His roommate Amy is nice and Sam’s mom is here. We go out with the intention of eating at D Note. A pizza joint/ bar with live music. We drink martinis instead and wait forever for breadsticks. After that we stop at an ice cream/candy shop next door (we found bacon flavored toothpaste!) And then finally we go to Jose O’Sheas for more drinks (margaritas) and an unlimited taco bar. Yep, an unlimited taco bar. Niels’ drives home four drunk women.
Day 25: Go out to eat for breakfast at Sunrise Sunset. (Breakfast food is my favorite hangover food.) Then we go back to Niels and Amy’s to go to the pool. We go for a quick dip then lie out in the sun until the clouds come. Shower, rest, then head to Boulder, CO. Shop at a cute downtown area with tons of boutiques and cafes on brick streets. Found an amazing little black dress at Starr’s Clothing Co. Eat at Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery. They have the best nachos in the world.
Day 26: Lazy. Crabby. Lounge around, sit on laptops and talk on my phone and sit in my car away from people for awhile. We go to the park to see Niels play in his kickball league. His team is called Going Commando; they wear camouflage. And their team captain wears a camo kilt. They get rained out (and there’s lots of lightning) so we leave early. More lounging. Finally go out to eat. We go to a hole in the wall called Star Thai. Not a big fan of Thai (or Japanese or Chinese for that matter) but I order some sweet and sour chicken and brown rice. We also have WonTons (or Crab Rangoon) which was deep fried cream cheese in star shapes. Also, of course, had to have egg rolls. For dessert, we have deep fried bananas covered in honey and powdered sugar and I try some Thai Iced Tea (not that different from bubble tea!).
Tomorrow: KANSAS, HERE WE COME.
Love always & Forever,
Stephanie
Song of the day:
Don't Stop Believin' by Journey (still stuck in my head from Tucson)
A Whole New World from Aladdin
Soul Sister by Train
Day 25: Go out to eat for breakfast at Sunrise Sunset. (Breakfast food is my favorite hangover food.) Then we go back to Niels and Amy’s to go to the pool. We go for a quick dip then lie out in the sun until the clouds come. Shower, rest, then head to Boulder, CO. Shop at a cute downtown area with tons of boutiques and cafes on brick streets. Found an amazing little black dress at Starr’s Clothing Co. Eat at Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery. They have the best nachos in the world.
Day 26: Lazy. Crabby. Lounge around, sit on laptops and talk on my phone and sit in my car away from people for awhile. We go to the park to see Niels play in his kickball league. His team is called Going Commando; they wear camouflage. And their team captain wears a camo kilt. They get rained out (and there’s lots of lightning) so we leave early. More lounging. Finally go out to eat. We go to a hole in the wall called Star Thai. Not a big fan of Thai (or Japanese or Chinese for that matter) but I order some sweet and sour chicken and brown rice. We also have WonTons (or Crab Rangoon) which was deep fried cream cheese in star shapes. Also, of course, had to have egg rolls. For dessert, we have deep fried bananas covered in honey and powdered sugar and I try some Thai Iced Tea (not that different from bubble tea!).
Tomorrow: KANSAS, HERE WE COME.
Love always & Forever,
Stephanie
Song of the day:
Don't Stop Believin' by Journey (still stuck in my head from Tucson)
A Whole New World from Aladdin
Soul Sister by Train
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Day 23: Albuquerque, New Mexico
The last night at Dan's, Sam, Dan & I sat outside in rocking chairs until 3am just talking. It was a nice night and good conversation. Of course, we bickered a little, but that's what we always do. We also laughed a lot. I'm so glad we got to relax with him as long as we did. And I'm grateful to Tim, Liz & Vicki (Dan's dad, step-mom, and little sister) for letting us stay there...they're such nice people!
Today we woke up, packed, and hit the road to New Mexico. These are our accumulated thoughts we had while driving:
I hate the desert.
I hate hot weather.
I hate sweating.
Stupid New Mexico.
I can't wait to see things that grow GREEN again!!!
After a lot of the same, dry, hot, dead and sandy scenery we finally hit a town: Hatch, New Mexico. We made a left turn down a street to get to an Interstate and we passed Sparky's Burgers, Barbecue and Espresso. (http://sparkysburgers.com/) We did a U-turn and parked in the lot. The outside had big statues, including a Ronald McDonald and Colonel Sanders chillin' by the front door! They have "World Famous Green Chile Cheeseburger" (which Sam & I both ordered). They have a lot of menu items with green Chile...in fact Sam also got green Chile creamed sweet corn and I ordered pineapple slaw (yea, cole slaw with pineapple!). They were GREAT!! We bought a couple t-shirts before we left.
After that, it was more desert...and finally Albuquerque, NM!! And I will admit...Bugs Bunny sent us. ;)
OH!! And we're staying at Desert Sands Motel which was apparently one of the filming locations for No Country For Old Men!
Love always & Forever,
Stephanie
Oh & here's some songs:
Don't Be Cruel--Elvis Presley
Last Friday Night--Katy Perry
Halfway Gone--Lifehouse
5 O'Clock Somewhere--Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffet
Am I the Only One--Dierks Bentley
Today we woke up, packed, and hit the road to New Mexico. These are our accumulated thoughts we had while driving:
I hate the desert.
I hate hot weather.
I hate sweating.
Stupid New Mexico.
I can't wait to see things that grow GREEN again!!!
After a lot of the same, dry, hot, dead and sandy scenery we finally hit a town: Hatch, New Mexico. We made a left turn down a street to get to an Interstate and we passed Sparky's Burgers, Barbecue and Espresso. (http://sparkysburgers.com/) We did a U-turn and parked in the lot. The outside had big statues, including a Ronald McDonald and Colonel Sanders chillin' by the front door! They have "World Famous Green Chile Cheeseburger" (which Sam & I both ordered). They have a lot of menu items with green Chile...in fact Sam also got green Chile creamed sweet corn and I ordered pineapple slaw (yea, cole slaw with pineapple!). They were GREAT!! We bought a couple t-shirts before we left.
After that, it was more desert...and finally Albuquerque, NM!! And I will admit...Bugs Bunny sent us. ;)
OH!! And we're staying at Desert Sands Motel which was apparently one of the filming locations for No Country For Old Men!
Love always & Forever,
Stephanie
Oh & here's some songs:
Don't Be Cruel--Elvis Presley
Last Friday Night--Katy Perry
Halfway Gone--Lifehouse
5 O'Clock Somewhere--Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffet
Am I the Only One--Dierks Bentley
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Days 21 & 22: Dan's House
The 4th of July was amazing. We went downtown for fireworks. Instead of going to the Convention Center we went further and down some dark side street. Before the fireworks started we walked over to St. Augustine Cathedral (one of the oldest churches in Tucson). Even in the dark the architecture is beautiful.
We walked back and down the dark street. There were already people in the street sitting in lawn chairs. We found a stoop and sat. There was one street lamp and some power lines in the way but we still saw the fireworks pretty nicely. My favorite part of this holiday is how united I feel with the people around me. Either they were quiet with awe or shouting "ooooh's" and "aaaaahhhh's" and "wow's." So here we were...sitting on a stoop of a dark street in the still heat of Tucson, AZ with palm trees close by, people sitting in the street and fireworks in the distance. I never felt more alive and proud.
After that Sam, Dan and I went to the Sky Bar downtown. We didn't see the ceiling open up or anything but they do have an outdoor deck and everything is run by solar panels. Also, they do have screens inside that show constellations and satelittes. The bar had a couple fancy glass chandeliers, a few pool tables, a lot of dance floor, and a couple lounge spots. It was nice. Dan wanted a pitcher of beer so after a long walk, a closed bar, we ended up at Danny's Lounge across the street from Dan's place (2 different dan's ;)). We drank, played pool, ate nachos, flirted with the bartender, and the whole bar sang Don't Stop Believing by Journey when it played.
After we came back, we went for a dip in the pool (and it might have been a bit of skinny dipping after having to jump the fence and shimmy the lock....). It was the perfect 4th.
The next day we woke up late, watched a marathon of a show on TV, I sat outside for awhile after another storm, and then we grabbed the bottles of booze we bought back in Portland and bought some snacks at the gas station and played card games all night (What the Fuck and Apples to Apples).
Today, we went to Wal Mart and bought another cassette adapter for my car so we can listen to our iPods again instead of static-y or Spanish radio stations. We also stopped at a Carls Jr for lunch and drove out to Old Tucson where they film old western movies. Unfortunately, the studio was closed so we couldn't tour it or see much of the buildings but the drive out there was along Gates Pass which curves along a mountain and LOTS OF DESERT so we got some pretty spectacular pictures of the view.
Now we're just relaxing at Dan's, waiting for him to get home from work, and then we're not sure what we're going to do for our last night here. Tomorrow we head to Albuquerque, NM.
Love always & forever,
Stephanie
We walked back and down the dark street. There were already people in the street sitting in lawn chairs. We found a stoop and sat. There was one street lamp and some power lines in the way but we still saw the fireworks pretty nicely. My favorite part of this holiday is how united I feel with the people around me. Either they were quiet with awe or shouting "ooooh's" and "aaaaahhhh's" and "wow's." So here we were...sitting on a stoop of a dark street in the still heat of Tucson, AZ with palm trees close by, people sitting in the street and fireworks in the distance. I never felt more alive and proud.
After that Sam, Dan and I went to the Sky Bar downtown. We didn't see the ceiling open up or anything but they do have an outdoor deck and everything is run by solar panels. Also, they do have screens inside that show constellations and satelittes. The bar had a couple fancy glass chandeliers, a few pool tables, a lot of dance floor, and a couple lounge spots. It was nice. Dan wanted a pitcher of beer so after a long walk, a closed bar, we ended up at Danny's Lounge across the street from Dan's place (2 different dan's ;)). We drank, played pool, ate nachos, flirted with the bartender, and the whole bar sang Don't Stop Believing by Journey when it played.
After we came back, we went for a dip in the pool (and it might have been a bit of skinny dipping after having to jump the fence and shimmy the lock....). It was the perfect 4th.
The next day we woke up late, watched a marathon of a show on TV, I sat outside for awhile after another storm, and then we grabbed the bottles of booze we bought back in Portland and bought some snacks at the gas station and played card games all night (What the Fuck and Apples to Apples).
Today, we went to Wal Mart and bought another cassette adapter for my car so we can listen to our iPods again instead of static-y or Spanish radio stations. We also stopped at a Carls Jr for lunch and drove out to Old Tucson where they film old western movies. Unfortunately, the studio was closed so we couldn't tour it or see much of the buildings but the drive out there was along Gates Pass which curves along a mountain and LOTS OF DESERT so we got some pretty spectacular pictures of the view.
Now we're just relaxing at Dan's, waiting for him to get home from work, and then we're not sure what we're going to do for our last night here. Tomorrow we head to Albuquerque, NM.
Love always & forever,
Stephanie
Monday, July 4, 2011
Days 19 & 20: Tucson AZ & 4th of July
To put just a splash of day 18 in here: We spent more time at the hostel pool. Met 4 Germans and a lot of other friendly people! We intended to go to a show or a casino or to see the lights of "Old Las Vegas" Downtown on Fremont street...but we started at Dino's "Last Neighborhood Bar in Vegas" right next door to the hostel and of course fell in love. It was a karaoke bar (we don't sing) but everyone else that sang was real good and energetic. It was really lively and fun. Silver (Sylvester) couldn't read English but he loves rock music and was convinced to sing Dirty Deeds by AC/DC; he rocked the chorus. He was a lot of fun. Sam beat him at pool. Another guy sang "Under the Sea" from the Little Mermaid. A lot of people laughed and he said "If you don't like the Little Mermaid, Fuck you." It was such a joyously contagious atmosphere that we couldn't leave. Also, we noticed people taped dollar bills with messages to the ceiling above the bar! We asked the bartender why and she said people just started puttin em up there and then handed us a sharpie and some tape. When you go to Vegas stop at Dino's and look above the bar for "WI RULES! We love Vegas! Stephanie & Sam Road Trip 2011" dollar bill on the ceiling. ;)
And the drinks were cheap! At the clubs I paid $10 for a small plastic cup of malibu and pineapple, but at Dino's it was only $4! It was like paying for drinks back home. Also, Albo's pizza next door is also cheap and pretty good. When I have more money, I think I'm going to come back and stay a week at the hostel I recommend it to everyone!
It took some effort to leave...but we headed to Arizona. I drove along Old Route 66!! And we stopped at Road Kill Cafe along the Route in Seligman, AZ. We had huge burgers made from real Buffalo meat. It was really good. We took a lot of other pictures at some really interesting old buildings in Seligman, including one with a bunch of classy manequins by a classic car. ;)
Finally we made it to Tucson, AZ at our friend Dan's. It'll be nice to relax with him for a couple days! Today is the 4th so we went to a local picnic at a park and tonight we're goin' to go see fireworks at "A" Mountain from the Tucson Convention Center. Afterward, we'll probably go to the Sky Bar (it's solar run during the day and opens up to the stars at night!).
Happy 4th of July, everyone.
Love always & Forever,
Stephanie
And the drinks were cheap! At the clubs I paid $10 for a small plastic cup of malibu and pineapple, but at Dino's it was only $4! It was like paying for drinks back home. Also, Albo's pizza next door is also cheap and pretty good. When I have more money, I think I'm going to come back and stay a week at the hostel I recommend it to everyone!
It took some effort to leave...but we headed to Arizona. I drove along Old Route 66!! And we stopped at Road Kill Cafe along the Route in Seligman, AZ. We had huge burgers made from real Buffalo meat. It was really good. We took a lot of other pictures at some really interesting old buildings in Seligman, including one with a bunch of classy manequins by a classic car. ;)
Finally we made it to Tucson, AZ at our friend Dan's. It'll be nice to relax with him for a couple days! Today is the 4th so we went to a local picnic at a park and tonight we're goin' to go see fireworks at "A" Mountain from the Tucson Convention Center. Afterward, we'll probably go to the Sky Bar (it's solar run during the day and opens up to the stars at night!).
Happy 4th of July, everyone.
Love always & Forever,
Stephanie
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