Thank you to all...

Thank you to everyone has been viewing my blog!! I am so happy to be back and see everyone again! We arrived back home yesterday, July 3rd... just in time for the 4th of July! Happy 4th of July everyone! And with that, I will wrap this blog up and say goodbye! I love you all and thank you so much!!!!!


~Adilyn

Washington... WE'RE HOME!!!

Finally we arrived back into Washington! We stayed at some friends our first night and the second we stayed in Crescent Bar in Eastern Washington... and hung out by the pool.

We are home!!!

Montana

Our first stop in Montana was in Lolo, at a square dance camp. We had a blast dancing and pulling Noelani through! She did amazing for her first time dancing ever! The owner of the campground was so kind as to let us stay in his trailer for two nights! The second night we had to evacuate the trailer due to a malfunctioning propane alarm. We got our chance to sleep in the car! Our next day in Montana we drove to the little itty bitty town of Ovando to meet three mountain men. Each of them explained a different aspect of mountaineering. Howie explained his rifle and let us shoot it, Shep told us all about his traps and how to set them, and lastly Tom revealed the mysteries to tomahawk throwing. He let us each try it and Ryker even threw the huge axe! Our last night we stayed at another square dancer's house whose name was Aaron. 

Wyoming

Here are our Wyoming adventures... We stayed in the little town of Cody which is an hour and a half away from Yellowstone park. Our first day we had fun exploring the south loop of the park. We saw bison & ducks... Not too much wildlife... The Old Faithful geyser was really beautiful! We showed up just in time to get a perfect seat and see it go off! After that, we headed over to the lodge that was right there and ate an amazing dinner! We met Tyson... A very lively guy who we had so much fun with! Once we were finished eating we drove all the way back to Cody and finally arrived super late at 1:00! Our next day we went white water rafting early in the morning. This was Ryker and my first experience at this but mom and Noelani have white water rafted before. I throughly loved my first time and hope to do it again someday! After rafting, we drove an hour to a nearby town called Thermopolis. There was a mineral hot springs there where we relaxed and soaked in for the allowed time. After driving the hour back we hung out at a pool for the rest of the day then attended a night rodeo. Now I can say I've been to a rodeo in the rodeo capital of the world! Our next day we finished out Yellowstone by completing the North loop. Here we saw a lot more animals including a bear and herds of bison! A famous guy titled 'Liver Eating Johnston' was buried in Cody so we visited this disgusting guys grave... The last thing we did in Cody was going on a wild mustang hunt. We found a herd of about 80 mustangs by a watering hole. I loved seeing horses in their natural habitat... It is so much different but really cool! Overall, I am so glad that we got to visit Yellowstone park but I'd never really come back I don't think. I really enjoyed everything in Cody though... Especially the rodeo and the whole feel of that western town!

Iowa & Minnesota & South Dakota

After driving to Ames IO we stayed there a night and then drove up through Minnesota to Rapid City SD. Some friends of ours have friends that lived there so we stayed with them once we got into the city. In the morning we visited the Crazy horse monument which is still a working progress. This was amazing and I enjoyed learning more about the history. After crazy horse we hopped on a helicopter to see Mt. Rushmore. It was so beautiful! Once again we stayed at the  Tornow's and played cards late into the night. 

Illinois

Sorry about not posting for quite a while... We drove all the way from Ohio through Indiana and a tiny bit of Michigan and to Chicago, Illinois. We toured around Chicago and visited the Millennium park, the Cloud Bridge, and Lou Malnati's Chicago style pizza. We were also freaking out because we found the train bridge thingy that was in the movie Divergent. We had so much fun climbing up it and experiencing how awesome it was! 

West Virginia and Ohio

We spent a total of about 5 minutes in West Virginia driving through the little wing in between PA and OH! In Canton OH we visited this block party where we played basketball with little kids way better than us! Noelani and I had a lot of fun talking with a girl named Passion and her sister. A lady named Kelly was so kind to host is and take care of us so well! In the morning she made an amazing breakfast full of goodness! Next we drove all the way to Chicago!!