Trip Out West: Days Seven and Eight - The Journey Home

The journey home is always worse than the journey to your destination.  On the way to your destination you are excited to start your vacation.  You haven't spent hours upon hours in the car and although it is a vacation everyone knows that they wear you out and you need a vacation after your vacation.  When your vacation ends with quite a few more hours in the car it seems to last forever.

We had such a good time in Idaho and I know that Elsie had fun with Allie and am so glad that she got to spend some time with her Uncle Tony and Magda.  It will be a vacation she will never remember but get to hear about.  

So we were on the road by 5:00 AM on Monday morning.  We took off and just kept driving.  We stopped quickly for meals throughout the day and for short pit stops at rest areas.  We were trying to get far the first day so that the second day wouldn't be as much driving and my sister needed to be home for sure by Tuesday evening since she had to work Wednesday.  Our initial plan was to stay again in Cheyenne but the hotel we stayed at before was booked so we figured we would just stay in Sidney, NE and get a few more hours in.  Even if we went to Sidney we would still get in around 7:30 PM.  We promised Allie that we would go somewhere with a pool and she could swim.  Well we started calling around to make a reservation and we found every since hotel in Sidney was booked (there was like 5 different hotels).  The reason they were booked up was because of all the fires in the Fort Collins, CO area would go up there to stay since they were evacuated from their homes.  How scary and sad.

We ended up staying in Ogalalla, NE and we pulled in around 9:30 PM with just enough time for Allie to get in the pool.  Elsie and I stayed in though since like everynight I had to wash bottles and pump parts, and get Elsie to bed which can be a challenge with 6 people in one little hotel room.

On Tuesday we once again were up and at em early at 4:00 AM and were on the road again by 5:00 AM.  Once again, not too many stops, just enough to grab food and take a bathroom break.  We stopped again at the cute little rest area in Shelby, IA but didn't stay for long.  We arrived home in Iowa around 3:30 PM, unloaded my stuff and my family was back on the road by 4:00 PM.  Thanks again to my wonderful family for such a great vacation.  It is a trip I will never forget!