Days 9 & 10. We decided to combine these two days since they can pretty much be described as driving, driving and more driving. Yesterday we spent about 13 hours en route - covered the rest of Montana and pretty much all of North Dakota. What can I say about Eastern Montana and all of North Dakota? Well, without insulting anyone too much, I'd say booooring. Although North Dakota did occassionally surprise us with a Badlands-like landscape. We would be driving through rolling hills and then all of a sudden a massive canyon of multi-colored sandstone formations would pop out of nowhere, and then disappear almost as quickly.
Kids have still been awesome in the car. We are happy to have excellent child and dog car riders. We did have to bring a "just-in-case" vomit bucket into the car yesterday when one child (to remain anonymous) and Thorkey had a bit of tummy trouble. We made it through safely.
The remainder of Montana yielded two additional blog-worthy names: Woopup, MT and an exit for Bad Route Road. Makes you wonder what's down there - a horror movie just waiting to happen. North Dakota definitely rivals Montana for the funky names. We passed through: Beach, Home on the Range, Camel Hump Lake, South Heart, Kathryn and my favorite, Gackle, ND. We did find an interesting Ranch (see photos or Facebook) that made us pull over and stop for a picture...
We got to our hotel in ND pretty early and gave the kids a chance to swim. On the road today we've gone through all of Minnesota and half of Wisconsin - only about 45 minutes from dropping the kids off for their second week of vacation. Thorkey is a never-ending source of amusement for us as her throne (aka pile of pillows on top of the cooler, backpacks, etc.) keeps falling over and she is slowing sinking into Sydney's lap and wedging herself against the hatchback.
And finally, for those of you who are curious about the name of today's blog... in an effort to entertain ourselves, we play word games and make up stories. Today, the word of the day that can crack everyone up is Wenis - which happens to be the rough patch of skin on your elbow. I know, I looked it up.
Until the next Monkeyhouse journey, we thank you for following our blog this past week - we hope you were entertained!
Signing out,
Monkeyhouse
Damon, Donna, Sydney, Tyler, Lauren & Thorkey
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