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Our second day of vacation was spent, well, driving.  The boys played with their leapsters and worked on the notebooks.  I copied pages of the states we planned on going through.  They were from Highlights.  They had all sorts of information about the state.  We learned all the capitals of the states that we drove through.  We also had some fun playing Dora's car bingo, printed out from NickJR.com  I also put in some info on St. Patricks day in my oldest's notebook, along with some detailed info on wolves.  My 4 yo only got coloring pages. 

Princess C spent most of her time playing with her foot. 

We would put on some videos for them to watch.  My daugher's favorite was her Signing Time DVD.  I am going to get her another one in her Easter basket.  All the kids love learning the signs. 

In the afternoon, my mom had called to let us know that there were a whole lot of cranes a couple hours west of us.  (Her and my grandma had left about 10 hours before we did).  The reception was bad and I thought she meant contruction cranes.  I was thinking, "You are wasting my roaming charges to tell me that??"  Then I realized she meant birds.  I still didn't think it was a big deal.  As we were driving, we kept making fun of all the birds we were supposedly going to see.  (sorry mom)  Right around sunset, I looked in the sky and saw an enourmous amount of birds.  It was crazy!  I didn't get any pictures, but here are some my mom got.

Apparently, from York, NE on westward for few miles, every year about this time, the cranes migrate over.  It is a huge event.  People come from all over to see it.  I wish I could have seen it daylight. 

  Day # 3....