July 21st

the 21st was our SHORT day.. only 35ish miles of riding from cole's parents in wathena KS to his aunts in Hiawatha KS. biscuits and gravy for breakfast, i must say, it was the first time i had this southern/midwestern treat, it was delish for shizzle.

chad and i spent the day online blogging, reading and what not since cole had to take care of some stuff with the australian embassy and a hospital at st joes. i ended up eating a good amount of pie.. 2:30ish came around and we started to pack to head out. the ride to hiawatha was slow, both chad and i were dragging our feet. we visited cole's grandmother. she was a sweetheart and gave us some money for dinner, which we wisely spent at sonic. why sonic? our choices were slim, pizza hut, sonic or subway. we had subway just the day before so we were not really feeling it, pizza hut was the obvious choice, but they were closed sadly for carpet cleaning.

we ate well, made it to his aunts and was not able to get that damn front door open. cole happened to let the nastiest fart rip and almost killed chad and i. from there was my ipod incident.

so for all of those who have been following. i have an old ipod, like 4 years old which has worked flawlessly, until i decided to leave on this trip. i thought it was an easy fix so i carried it all the way to south bend. there i couldn't fix it, so i purchaed a new ipod nano and had it shipped to coles grandmothers. we brought his laptop to his aunts so i could load music onto it. mind you, i'm really stoked that i can listen to music instead of talking to myself to get myself through the long days. well, i'll be damned, the ipod only works with the most updated version of itunes, which coles 50lb ancient laptop does not have. well that's ok, his 18 year old cousin must have something good.... NOPE, he just got a new computer and has NINE songs.. please, kill me now.. thankfully chads friends came through in the clutch and i was able to get 4 albums of music on it, which i have been listening to on repeat and are completely sick of by now.

anyways, we crash at about midnight and oh boy did i sleep well, a couch is always better than a tent..this photo was taken the night of the 20th i believe, chad pretty much fell asleep like that and i had to move him into a normal position....

btw: i have no idea why everything is underlined above, all i did was hit copy and paste...