Road Trip: Day Two

So day two was a blast. We started it off with a fun park, is there a better way to start a day?

Observations... It rained bugs. No, I'm not kidding... Illinois rained bugs. I must have stopped three times in an hour to wash my windshield.

I decided that on day two I'd make a point to take a few more pictures of the scenery. This didn't prove to be difficult, as I found the entire southern portion of Illinois could be summed up in just one photo shot out my side window.

Highway, cornfields, farms. Nothing else to see here folks. Maybe I'm missing something, but that was my view anyway :)


We pulled off for lunch at an exit that advertised an establishment called "That 50's Place". Curiousity was aroused, and quickly distinguished as I saw it. So we drove down the road a little bit and found an old, old Texaco & a small Diner that looked cool. Who can pass up a place with a giant mural painted on the outside of the building?






Malia tried and tried to get Eliana to pose for a picture


But Eliana was not interested


Unless I caught her off guard of course.


Bored in the outskirts of Chicago traffic (which passed quickly and painlessly)


Not much longer the scenery started to look more like Michigan... little bit of hwy, lots of trees.


As we drove Malia pointed out all the corn fields near her Aunt & Uncle's house and quite seriously said "Maybe they eat a lot of corn now" which tickled me to no end.

We got settled in quickly... Malia had an allergy breakout the first night here, but it seems to have passed and she is doing pretty good now. Will keep the blog as updated as I can.