Hey everyone!!!!
We’re on the road again!!!! Right now we are in Boulder, Colorado. We started on the road on Friday. Yes, I know Friday the 13th but nothing bad happened! We were supposed to leave on Wednesday but we got a little delayed. On Friday, we headed toward Osage Beach, Missouri where my Grandma lives to see her. We got to her condo at like 3 A.M. and we were exhausted!! We brought the cats on this trip so I slept in the condo while Mom slept in the van with the cats. We left my Grandma’s at 11 A.M. and headed to Lawrence, Kansas for our wonderful friend Lizz’s wedding to her wonderful, now husband, Brent. We were scared that we weren’t going to make the wedding because of Kansas City, Missouri traffic. But we made it to Lawrence an hour early and drove around a tiny bit and found a 24 hour coffee shop called Java Break and looked up directions to the venue. We changed and headed to the venue. The venue was beautiful, it was at the Victorian Veranda Country Inn. The wedding was BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! Lizz handmade the dress and it was beautiful. The whole thing was beautiful! The wedding was outside and the weather was beautiful. They stood under an arbor and there was a little waterfall behind them. After the wedding was the celebration and it was on the top level of a barn. There was dancing with friends, family, circle dancing. There was happiness in the air. Lizz and Brent were SO HAPPY!!! It was basically a wedding in a middle of a party. We left the wedding at 2:00 A.M. and the wedding started at 5:00 P.M. We had a lot of fun at the wedding. Later that day, we walked around Lawrence fro a while then headed to Clinton State Park. It took us a while to figure out what campsite we wanted. We woke up to a beautiful morning. We wanted to go swimming at the Swim Beach and it look like there were trails to it so we headed down one of the trails. We went down the trail turned around every time we realized it was getting farther away from the lake. Also, on our way down the trail I spooked a young deer and it went running probably to its mom and the more we went down the we found hoof prints from the young deer and its mom.
Later, we couldn’t find the beach so we went back to the campsite and hopped in the car and went to the beach parking lot and guess what we found on our way down to the beach! We found 2 trails! We swam some at the beach then, ate a little and showered at the showers there. I started laughing while Mom was showering because the showers were outside and it started to rain. We drove back into Downtown Lawrence and went to the movie theater because I thought the movie was at 5 but it actually started at 7! So we went to Signs of Life which is a cafe, bookstore, and gallery. We didn’t go up to the gallery but we did go to the bookstore and cafe. A couple hours later we went to Liberty Hall which is the movie theater. The movie we saw was Belle and it was wonderful!
After the movie, we left Lawrence and headed down I-70. We stopped at a rest stop after Topeka to rest. We woke up, hopped in to the rest stop, and left. We drove and drove till we stopped at Hays, Kansas and went to the Goodwill, Walmart (yes, we went to a Walmart. DON’T FAINT!!!), and Wendy’s. It was SO HOT in Hays. We stopped at the Walmart to get a fan for the cats because they were panting. When we stopped at the Wendy’s we sat on the patio and brought the cats out in their crates.
After we left Hays we drove and drove and finally went over the border to Colorado!!! Part way to Colorado we went over the time zone border and was suddenly in Mountain Time Zone. We stopped at a few gas stations and then drove till we got off at the Flagler exit and rested at the rest stop. We got back on the road and headed to at first Denver but first we stopped at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. Then a little bit later we hopped back on the highway but instead we hopped on I-270 and headed to Boulder.
If I missed anything my mom’s post will probably have it.
Peace <3 Travel
Peace <3 Travel
Peace <3 Travel
Rowan
Love your writing style, Rowan!