Yesterday morning the wind finally calmed down. By calmed down I mean that it went from 50 mph gusts to a constant 10-20 mph wind. This is Wyoming I guess!
So after a breakfast in Mildreds (the motel diner) we headed south into Colorado. We are only 7 miles from the Colorado border. [...]

Day 3:  We had our last dance lesson on Wednesday.  As with so many other this in this adventure it was kind of bittersweet.  We did get a couple of new moves in the swing and the tango which was awesome.  Now we just have to find some place to practice when we get to [...]

We made it back into town around 1pm today which was nice considering the last time we did this trip we didn’t get back into town until around 4 or 5pm.
Yesterday morning we took off earlier than we had planned so we made it into town before our motel room was ready, but they were [...]

We did more wandering.  I’m not going to write a whole lot because honestly there isn’t a whole lot to report.  But I think the photos will give you an idea of what we did!

 
Monarch Butterfly in Bellvue State Park (Iowa)
 

 
Beetles eating a flower??
 
 
 
Lock and Damn #12 from Bellvue State Park
 

 
Church on the Hill in [...]

Yesterday the old man (my dad!) and I went off on a small photography trip. He had a couple of places marked that he wanted to see, and since I took the day off, I was more than willing to chauffer him around for a while.
Our first stop was  Wildcat Den State Park, which is [...]

On the first go around we missed a few thing so we spent Saturday back in Sea World.  It was a LOT busier. Go during the week if you can.

The first time around we missed the Shamu show (currently called believe)

The baby killer whale (at the bottom) was very cool to watch.  He’s already wanting [...]

I’ll try and keep this one short and just show the pictures (I’ve got a ton that I skipped and some that I need to scan in).
Friday was our day at Discovery Cove. They try their best to make this like it’s your own paradise and honestly they do a great job. The [...]

On Thursday morning, after a few to many sour margaritas, we pulled ourselves out of bed and had some breakfast.  I forgot to mention that the previous night we had dinner at the resort.  It was pretty good (this will come back later!).

With our knowledge of where Sea World was, we made our way there.  [...]

I do have a ton more to post up about our trip. Nothing super exciting, but it’s my blog so I can blog about it.  However I am in short supply of time at the moment.  I should be able to get day 2 done this evening.  Here’s a picture we took on entering the [...]

The alarm went of at 4am and usually it’s not that hard for me to get out of bed when vacation looms but for some reason it was this time. We showered up, drank a shake and made our way to the airport for a 6am flight out of Moline.
We got checked in just [...]