Day 7&8: Ryan and Chicago!!

The past two days Anna and I stayed with her friend Ryan in Chicago. It was awesome!!! It was so nice to get off the road for a couple days and see the city. The first day it was raining and spent the day making pancakes and hanging out in her beautiful apartment right outside the city. The next day we decided to get back into out "tourist" mode and see the sights. We visited Millennium park!! We saw the infamous bean and listened to an orchestra play in the park. Chicago is such a cool city, almost as cool Missoula!!! 

The green dot to the red dot is how far we've come!! 

Day 6: Mall of America

We're still alive everyone!! No worries. We got to Bloomington, Minnesota late last night and crashed at a pretty classy Motel 6. We woke up and went to Mall of America!!! And let me tell you, it IS everything it's cracked up to be. We visited the American girl doll store, inside amusement park and all of the 2 Claire's. AND MANY MORE! The mall had everything you could ever want and more. BEST PLACE IN 'MURICA! 

When I went to the Mall of America with my Dad in 2004, we spent all day at this beading store. It's where I discovered my mad jewelry making skillz, it's where I found my new hobby....my new way of life!!!

We HAD to stop by Forever 21

Look how far we've come!! 

Day 5: Worlds only Corn Palace

You have not lived until you've stopped by Mitchel, South Dakota's World famous corn palace!!! The palace was built to attract tourism in 1892 and is now used as a theatre and gymnasium. There's an annual festival to reveal the years new themed design. This years design was "We Celebrate", the palace was decorated with different images illustrating different holidays like 4th of July, Easter, St. Patrick's day, Christmas and Valentines day. For more information plz visit: 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Corn_Palace

Day 5: Celebrity sighting!!

WE FINALLY MADE IT IN AMERICA! Where dreams become reality. Our good friend Kevin spotted our car parked outside of the hotel and tweeted at us!!! He creatively added the hashtag. #lolzdriving is now on twitter, get it trending!!!  

We did like the faces, Thanks Kevin!!!

Day 5: Wall drug

Wall Drug: Americas most favorite roadside stop!! Wall drug was founded in 1931 by Ted Hustead. It started as a small convenient store but took off when he and his wife began offering free ice water to tourists in route to Mount Rushmore. We saw billboards advertising the town way back in Bozeman, Montana (a couple posts ago). For more about Wall Drug visit: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Drug

Day 5: Mount Rushmore

In keystone Anna and I stopped to see our 4 most notable presidents CARVED IN STONE! We spent some time with Washington, Adams, Roosevelt and Lincoln. Mount Rushmore took from 1927 to 1941, to be carved. The total cost came to $989,992.32 and took about 400 workers to complete the monument. They chose Washington because he was the first president, John Adams because he signed the Lousiana Purchase, Theodore Roosevelt because he helped bridge the gap between the east and west AND Lincoln because he saved the union during the civil war!!! Each face is about 60 feet tall and each nose is 20 feet tall. 

'MURICA!! 

Day 4: Made it to Keystone

We finally made it to Keystone, South Dakota. On our way there we passed Crazy horse memorial and drove through the Black hills. Since it was so dark the hills were really black!!! We ate dinner at Teddy's deli that happened to have "the best Rueben on this side of the Mississippi" SCORE! 

From there we slept at Roosevelt's inn, that incidentally did not have wifi LOLZ. Anna's 4th day without internets. Making progress!! 

RIP our first bag of Smartfood :'(((