Saturday, February 23, 2013

STL to Montana!

Hey everyone!  I'm so glad to be back and able to share my next big adventure.  My brother, Matthew, was given a ski trip for his birthday and he chose to go to Big Sky in Montana and Jackson Hole in Wyoming.  So that's where we'll be hanging out for the next week...it's going to be super fun!

Yesterday (Friday, February 22, 2013), we left Wildwood at about 3:20 PM, drove to St. Joseph to have supper and get gas at 7:30 (great sandwich at McAlister's Deli), then back on the road at 8:10.  We then drove nonstop until 11:10 PM, arriving in Sioux City, where we spent the night.  Asleep at midnight! :(

This morning, we were up at 6:45, had breakfast (sausage, cereal, muffins, cocoa, juice), loaded up, and were on the road at 7:30 AM.  It was between 2 and 5 degrees until about 10:30 or 11:00 AM...COLD but soooo pretty with sunshine and sparkly snow.  At 11:30 (Mountain Time), we stopped in Wall, South Dakota.  We had lunch at the Wall Drugstore, which Matthew and I visited back in July 2012 on our Alaska journey.  It was fun to check it out again in the winter!  They had a crazy deal for lunch -- $4.49 for a BBQ pork sandwich AND a nice-sized bowl of chili.  We all had that...yummy!

At 2:10 PM, I started driving at Spearfish, South Dakota.  Two-and-a-half hours later, I finished good driving practice (complete with light snow for the last 15-20 minutes!) in Sheridan, Wyoming.  I haven't even had my permit for a month and I've already driven in four states (Missouri, Iowa, South Dakota, & Wyoming)!!  From Sheridan, we drove all the way to Bozeman, Montana, arriving at 8 PM.  We had some snow and slush on I-90 for quite a ways.  We had supper at Santa Fe Red...awesome, generous-sized portions of Mexican food.  By 9:30, we were at our hotel in Belgrade.  Can't wait for skiing tomorrow...check in to see how it goes!

~Anna~

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