Hi! I'm finally back! I have tons and tons of things to write about, but there's only so much time to write! Let's start with the very first day...
We left our house and we were on our way to Burr Oak, Iowa. There's not very much to write about while we were in the car, other than we drove through Chicago. We tried to beat rush hour, but it's almost always rush hour in big cities. We were pretty much moving along at 5-10 mph for about an hour or so before we got out of the Chicago Skyway lane into the Wisconsin lane. We kind of wanted to see Chicago, and I'm glad I did, but it was sort of boring watching people slowly drive by as they were eating talking on cell phones, etc. Of course, you see that all the time where I live, too!
We were almost to Burr Oak, Iowa when we hit a horrible storm. We were driving around trying to find a hotel, but they were ALL booked! The one woman said there were high school track competitions going on the next day. We tried almost every hotel in the cities we drove through before crossing the Mississippi River into Minnesota. We couldn't find anything there because there were tennis tournaments going on there! We finally decided to drive on to Iowa, and we made it, but there were STILL no hotels. We didn't go to one of them because the one woman said they probably wouldn't even be up. But they were and we ended up staying there...
The nexy day we were headed to Pepin, Wisconsin (the birhtplace of Laura) and Walnut Grove, Minnesota. Here are pictures from day number 2...
Little House Wayside...Pepin Wisconsin
Here's a pretty bad sky as we were driving through Minnesota
Day number 3 we had to travel the rest of the way to Walnut Grove, and we got there around 10 am I'd say. We walked through the bookstore for a wee bit, before we went through the little exhibits they had set up. I think my favorite part was the room for the TV show, Little House on the Prairie. It had little displays set up for all the actors that have visited Walnut Grove. Here are a few pictures from that room.
   
Then we headed off to Plum Creek, where the Ingalls dugout site is. The dugout caved in a few years after the Ingalls moved out, but the site is, obviously, still there. After that, we were all hungry, so we headed to Nellie's Cafe for lunch. It's not exactly like I thought it would be, but the food was okay. I thought it was going to be like an old fashioned restraunt or something but it's not.
We then went to Oleson's Mercantile, where we all got a Walnut Grove t-shirt. We then were on our way to...Bismarck, North Dakota, I believe. Yes, that's where we were going. And since it's getting late, I think that's a good place to stop. And PLEASE remember to psot comments!! And remember you don't have to have a HSB account to post them. Have a wonderful week to whoever reads this!
Love,
Laura
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