Sioux Fall, SD to Chicago, IL

Today we started a little bit later :)... about... 1 PM... WE'RE STILL ON VACATION :) plus we needed to have a nice breakfast... at noon :).
Here some pics from... 'in the car'... :)... fun fun fun...
And here a few facts about our trip:
... to Montana we drove 1626.8 miles (2618KM) in 3 days (incl. sightseeing)
... to Chicago we drove 1394.7 miles (2244.5KM) in 2 days (trip streight)
which is an amount of total: 3021.5 miles (4862.6KM)

Itwas a wonderful week of vacation... we're looking forward to the next roadtrip that we're already planning on having in the beginning of 2008.

Livingston, MT to Sioux Fall, SD

The red lamp went off so we needed to find a gas station in the middle of nowhere... and in the middle of the night. We still wanted to make our way to Sioux Fall by midnight so we left the I-90 a few miles before Sioux Fall. John filled up the car... it seems to be very cold outside :)... ... after I made fun of him standing outside in the cold: *g*

leaving Livingston...

Saturday, 11:30AM we left Livingston with a full tank of gas...
This time the weather was perfect. In Livingston it was very windy but totally ok to drive and in Montana we had only a few spots with snow mud on the road... for us totally fine.

Thanksgiving and a flat tire!

Hi Folks, this is how some people look a little bit strange while watching a special edition of SHREK :)... our Thanksgiving dinner was soooo delicous... thank you Doug! We had too much food left and a lot of fun. The little girl from Monica and Brandon kept us all entertained :).

Today John and I wanted to bring back a chair. We just left the street where Doug and Dana live in... this sound was too strange... a flat tire :(... luckily I've checked the airpressure before the trip on ALL tires (incl. the 'donut' in the trunk). John replaced the flat tire into the 'donat' at the icy street in this cold. And after we've brought back the chair, John and Doug brought the car to a shop where they unfortunately couldn't repair the flat tire. Since I needed one new... I bought two new ones for the front and the car was fixed within 2 hrs. So no worries for our way back home tomorrow... :)
Here is a funny tree with a lot of birds inside it :)

In the afternoon John and I made our way to Bozeman, MT where we did a little shopping at Murdoch's :).
Isn't the view amazing?
Tomorrow after breakfast we'll make our way back home. The plan is to drive through... 20 hrs till Chicago... but if we won't be able to... we'll stay over in a Motel... let's see how fit we'll be :)... This was a great vacation so far... :)... I look forward to our next one :)...

ruff... ruff...

Yesterday Dana and Doug showed us their chickens while the dogs were playing outside in the snow.

aren't they look cute? Agatha in black, Barkley in dark brown and Chester in light brown...
in the afternoon we played Monopoly and after dinner we played Poker... :)... a few of us were pretty drunk but from what I've heard... that's normal in here *lol*... or am I wrong Daddy??? *G*
Chester: The dogs love John. I'm pretty happy about it so he has all the dogs on his lap and they're not coming to me... even though they still try to. But John is the better part... Especially Agatha loves him a lot! Should I become jealous??? Hhhhmmm... I have to talk to Agatha in a quiet moment, I guess!

snow... snow... snow...

This is how it looks like at daylight... isn't that crazy? From totally sunny to totally snow... Here is proof of the dangerous drive... the snow got stuck into the wheelwell...

Sturgis, SD to Livingston, MT

... we started with a lot of sun after our shopping in the Harley Davidson store in Sturgis :)...The weather started to get worse during our drive... it was very tricky and dangerous but John brought us to Doug and Dana save and sound at midnight.

Mt. Rushmore

On Monday we started our way from Deadwood to Mt. Rushmore... isn't that a gorgeous view:
Here some pics of the presidents:
... and here some information about our home state:

From Murdo, SD to Deadwood, SD

... we decided to stay one additional night 'on the road' and made a few more stops...

... here you can see a Cowboy from Chicago :), isn't he cute??? :)... in Wall, SD we stopped at the Wall Drug Store where John found this very old phone... I guess nobody answered :)...
... unfortunately, the shop was already closed... but... we were there :)... We made our 'night stop' in Deadwood, SD where the famous Wild Bill was shot. We ended the evening with a nice steak and a few tries at the slot machine.Tomorrow we'll make our way to Mt. Rushmore, the wonderful Caves and then to DOUG AND DANA :)... we're looking forward to the stay in Montana a lot and enjoy this trip a ton... we're already planning to do our next roadtrip :)... good night...

Roadtrip: Day 2

... sunday we started from Mitchell, SD with a wonderful view towards Murdo, SD where we made a stop at the Pioneer Auto Museum. It was very interesting...... oh, see who is smiling here :)

Start of the Roadtrip to Montana...

... saturday november 17th John and I made our way towards Montana... here's a quick snapshot from the drive:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PA!

... unbelievable... our daddy is 50 years young... congrats from the other side of the world :)...

... and here some typical pics :)... while preparing our delicous christmas dinner:... or when he's not ok with the something you've said...... proudly filming his daughter...... oh... got you Mr. Cowboy!... while eating pretzel's...... very typical... if he has something new... you'll see all kinds of funny pics...

Happy Birthday Pa, we wish you many wonderful coming years with a bunch of love, happiness, health, luck and joy...

wonderful view and a bird on the plane...

Yesterday I came home from Denver *dream*... it was a great business trip and I really enjoyed the state colorado again. We visit a client that was one hour away from the office... isn't that a great view?

And on the way back home in the plane there was this crazy bird also *lol*... some fancy animal... I'm curious if he had to go through security also??? *lol*

Scary Frontyard!

When John and I were looking for apartments we always drove past this crazy decorated frontyard but unfortunatelly I never took a picture. I wanted to show you this amazing work so badly.

Today when I went home from the doc I drove past this frontyard again and I did take a picture this time :)...

Isn't that crazy??? You can't see soooo much but maybe imagine the rest. I didn't wanna stop all the cars behind me *lol*.

And Yes, I'm sick again... and on antibiodics again :(... the 4th time since the end of august!!! :( Hopefully that's it for the next couple of months. It seems to be a 'sinus infection' that doesn't wanna go away...