Roadtrip Home: WY to IL

I hated leaving JHBC, but going on a roadtrip home with friends made leaving a little bit easier. after packing bam's car to the gills, lish, brian, and i left campus and drove to the pearl street bagel shop to meet up with lish's parents for breakfast. once we had all gotten our delicious bagels, we hit the road. lish was in the car with bam and me for the whole first day of driving. needless to say, we had an awesome time filled with much singing, dancing, laughing, and talking.... and a bit of sleeping. after all, we were driving through wyoming. and in some places in that state, there isnt anything to see except bleak stretches of sage brush for miles and miles and hours and hours. but for the most part, we had a blast.
we even found some cool attractions!

like a dinosaur that seats three! and even has a saddle!!!

oh ya!

we also found a city where the elevation was 8,000 times greater than its population.

we also learned a few interesting things along the way. such as:

sometimes the people who make your sandwich really dont know the combination to the safe.

to what lengths we were willing to go to listen to music without static

if batman got into a fight with a dinosaur... batman would lose an arm

we ended up driving really late into the night in order to get to lish's aunt's house. once we finally got there, we got to have a fantastic sleep. then we woke up in the afternoon, ate some food, and got ready to leave. from that point on, it was just brian and i because lish's parents wanted some time with her and also wanted some help with her younger siblings.

so brian and i drove on to his house. but by the time we got there, it was too late for us to go on to my house and to lish's house to drop off her stuff. so i stayed with his family overnight. his mom is such a sweet lady. the next day, i got to hang out with his mom a bit and we became friends. before i left, she even gave me some awesome tupperware! turns out, she's a tupperware consultant and loves to give tupperware stuff away :) so i got a bunch of stuff i can bring to college and even a veggie platter for my mom!

after leaving brian's house, we drove several more hours through lots of traffic to lish's house. they had driven through the night, i think, so they were already home. we dropped off lish's stuff and got to meet the rest of her family. her sister, abigail, is super fun and it was awesome getting to know her over some delicious pizza.

i hated to say goodbye to my friend, but i knew my parents were anxious to see me. so it was into the car again and off to see my family. it was good to see them, and they were very happy to have me back. and thus ended my roadtrip adventure home :)