Chicago, St. Louis, and Salt Lake City and It's all on the Same Street!

Last month I took a road trip with my family, heading east across the west. The first stop was Sacramento, to gas up the Odyssey. We brought lots of DVDs and CDs to keep entertained, in addition to a variety of toy dinosaurs. We stopped again somewhere in Nevada. They were selling Indian jewelry behind the restrooms, along with vases. We made it to our Hilton in downtown Salt Lake City before dark. Had a nice swim, and in the morning, after a nice breakfast, we attended the holy mass at the Cathedral, which was magnificent. After we finished giving thanks, we piled in the Honda and didn't stop till we hit Wyoming. Mom took a nice picture of me and the Sinclair dinosaur. I wanted to come back to Wyoming for my birthday. So many dinosaurs! We took a few photos at the park in Sinclair, Wyoming, before crossing the continental divide and heading south from Cheyenne to Colorado. It was getting dark and wet and we hit a little traffic passing through Denver, but it was dry by the time we arrived at Aunt Janet's. We saw a little rabbit hop up her drive, so we hopped up after it. Aunt Janet introduced Uncle Michael and Penny, who was recovering from surgery. In the morning we met Aunt Janet's squirrels and jays, who came to get the peanuts that my dad and I placed on top of the fence. We met Alex and her brother, who came with us to the Dinosaur Resource Center, which had a nice Allosaurus outside, along with a Styracasaurus. I asked the paleontologist a lot of questions during our tour, which had everything from bambiraptors to Tyrannasaurus Rexes. Later we went swimming at Aunt Janet's club, and Daddy, Mommy, and Ate played a little indoor tennis. The next morning we left again, stopping in Nebraska for gas. I found a nice studded ball that I added to my Christmas list, before we exited highway 80 that evening in Omaha, Nebraska. We walked over to Wendy's to pick up our dinner, and saw a nice rainbow out of our hotel window. Enjoyed a nice swim with Ate Dee and everyone. Watched Dinosaur Train at breakfast, and then we crossed over to Iowa and got some ice cream in Kellogg. The navigator conked out, so we said some Hail Marys, and it started working again after we stopped for lunch at the Iowa Machine Shed, where we played on the tractors. Gotta run now...I'll be back!