Howdy Pardners!

Phaedra here: On the road again!

Here Zoe and I are, once again, in the truck. Boooooooring!!!!!! We got some good zzzz’s riding around, though.

Imagine this… We all went to Michigan for Taylore’s and Mat’s wedding and guess who never met them. That’s right. Zoe and I... never met them!!! We did see Erin, Audrey and Brad at the camper. Zoe really liked Erin who kissed up by throwing the ball over and over for her. I pretended not to be interested. All we got to see was the inside of the camper and the campground. We did NOT GO ANYWHERE!!!!!

They really liked being in East Lansing and even checked out Mom's old dorm at MSU. I didn’t really enjoy Lansing much. Zoe and I were running around playing chase and I wasn’t watching where I was going. I ran into Mom’s knee and knocked my front tooth loose. I didn’t like hearing that I’m going to have to get the tooth pulled once I reach Colorado Springs. I think we should just ignore it, but Mom is so over-protective! I don’t think I’m going to win this argument…

We were only in Lansing 4 days and left Sunday heading out for Colorado. Sometimes I wish we could just skip the travel and wish ourselves to the next city. It rained way too much all the way from North Carolina to Michigan, then on to Illinois and Iowa.

We finally set up camp without any rain once we got to the middle of Nebraska (which by the way, Dad says goes on for days and days just to upset Mom). The wind was blowing about 35 miles per hour the whole time. After dark, we were surrounded by storms and tornado warnings. Out came the big map! Mom watched the storm’s progress on the computer and packed our GO Bags just in case. We didn’t even put out the slides because the folks were worried. When the wind reached gusts of 55 to 60 miles per hour, we really rocked. Fortunately, the storms subsided after several hours and no tornadoes were seen where we camped. Still, there isn’t a very good place to evacuate to at a campground unless the bathhouses are concrete. These weren’t.

We got out of there as soon as the sun came up, and Dad drove over 500 miles. We went all the way to Colorado Springs. It was so fun seeing the snow covered mountains. We always play a game of who will see the Rockies first! Guess who won! Of course, it was me. I made Mom want to take this picture so she made Dad pull over on the highway. If you look really, really hard, you can see the mountains just peeking over the high plains.

It’s really just spring here, now.

There are lots of wonderful things to do in Colorado Springs. Zoe will write more about that later.

Arf! Arf! ... For now.

P