Our Trip to Iowa in Abbreviated List Form

In The Car

A nearly crocheted kid sized blanket

Air conditioning on full blast, blowing straight at the Mama so she wouldn't get carsick

Magnetic Poetry for Kids

Magnet art in the Magnet box

Two big baskets of children's picture books

Writers Almanac podcasts on Mama's ipod (listened to with headphones

to appease those who just don't appreciated poetry (Dr. Peds).

Audiobooks (Oh, how we love you!)

The Mouse and the Motorcycle

Piper Reed, Navy Brat

Pain and the Great One: Going, Going, Gone!

(Snatches of Ingraine the Brave)

Activities

Swimming at the motel

Kidlets Flip flop shopping with Dr. Peds

A vintage tricycle

Coloring Books at Great Grandma's

Kidlets fighting about exactly whose turn it was to sit on the stuffed horse

at Great Grandma's

Popsicles with cousins

Zooming around the playground tour with energetic cousins

Meeting the cousin's pet rabbit, Pepper

Watching TWO movies

Reading "Socks" by Beverly Cleary

Feeding Great Grandma's birds in the bird feeder outside

Lots of hugs

Some grumping, whining and general mayhem

Scenery

Two almost-car-collisions right in front of us

Deep green grass and fields

Fields and fields of corn as tall as me

Old farmhouses with gigantic trees in their yards

The occasional smell of feedlot manure (not nearly as nice as

my Dad's farm manure)

Wide open spaces and a huge sky with beautiful clouds

Skyscrapers

Dense forests welcoming us home

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