Well we made it to Fort Riley late Sunday night. We saw some interesting things along the way that I thought I would share with you. Our first days drive was pretty uneventful and even though we got off to a late start we met our goal of making it most the way through Ohio.
Day two was a different story. We hit some flash flooding in Indiana. You may have seen it on the news. It was incredible to be driving through it and see the havoc it caused. If you look at the first pic i took that from the interstate. I-70 actually got closed at parts due to flooding on the road so we took a detour Ben navigated for us. That picture is of a field of crops now mostly under water. We listened to the local station while driving through, one woman called to ask for assistance in saving her cattle, They had rescue HumVs out and there was a report that one of them got carried off in the rising water.
Next just by chance we came upon the Cahokia Mounds in Illinois. I had never heard of them but my history buff Husband has. They are ancient Indian homes and burial grounds that have been grown over through the years...so they just look like odd shaped hills. I included a pic of one and then another view where you can climb stairs to the top of it.
We then came upon the St.Louis arch and spent some time there along the Mississippi river. It was amazing how BIG and powerful that river is. The arch was beautiful....massive once you are right under it!
We stopped that night in Columbia Missouri as we wanted a good nights sleep and we promised the kids we would have a fun day to thank them for being so good in the car. We spent the day at Science City at Union Station in Kansas City Missouri. They had a blast...then we finished our drive out to Fort Riley. Just before we got there we hit one more bad storm complete with Hail. We had to pull off because it was hard to see. Ben finally got his Sirius radio installed and that sure came in handy for this storm as he learned it was pretty stationary and the only way to get out of it would be to drive out. So we went slow with our hazard lights on and within five minutes we were in the clear. Looking in our rear view mirrors we could see this horrible black cloud of a storm that we had just been in. It looked very intimidating and I was so glad to be going away from it!
Anyway We will update you more when we have more time...we have severe weather on the way here tonight so I am going to turn off the computer to save it from the lightning! Stay Safe everyone and know we miss you!
2 comments:
You went through my home state and the memories swept through as you described your drive. As I was reading about st.louis, I forget what others think of the things I grew up with and take for granted. I am glad ytou made it through the floods and storms safely. My parents and sister are on evacuation alert and have to boil water for safety. to many levees breaking. I am glad we postponed our trip there. we were suppose to nbe there this week while brendan was away...whewwww! glad we aren't. I hope you enjoy ft. riley. I have a good friend(non member) from ft. meade that is there right now. says housing is scarce(they had to buy a place due to the long wait of post housing). I hope you enjoy the area. we miss you guys tons, Jess
hey guys!! i saw some pics of olivia on your blog and thats nuts... she is getting so big.
About the wedding, it was all so beautiful, and i wish you could have been there... i will put pictures up soon!!
nice to hear from you <3
angelia.
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