Trip Update From Minn.

So I have quite a few pictures I want to post, but those will have to wait a little bit, but hopfully soon. :)

We are at my Mom's cousins house in Minn, it it absolutly beautiful, 78 degrees with a breeze and sunny; in a house that is about 130 years old on a farm.

So I'll give the run down on what has happened since we left.

We left last Wed. night at about 11:30 pm, (the Hood...'s helped us pack up and say goodbye, thank you) So I woke up in flagstaff at about 2:30am Thursday to my dad playing 'Songs' quietly keeping him entertained (or awake) with the song 'Creed' playing. (Sound familier P?? Listining to music going to Flag? lol) :)

Except that around the same time Annamae got sick, and it wasn't the kind of sickness you want to have while traveling in a car. ;) (after that over the next couple of days quite a few members of our family got sick, I didn't catch it and we are just about over it.)

So we drove straight though to the Cabrea's (sp) in Colorado. (half way between Col Springs and Denver) Beautiful cool weather there with still some snow on the ground. PLayed a little music with Daniel, while 'Mare stareing' until 1:30 in the morning. (Those little horses are sometimes a pain!)
We stayed there for two nights and then left to go to South Dakota. So in north of Denver we saw two funnel clouds forming and then disappear (funnel clouds turn into tornados) along side the free way. Yes, 'The sky was about to rain and prairies were calling out His name', it did rain and yes, we were driving through praire. We crossed part of Wy, and there we drove through snow on the freeway, (about 1-2 inches) we passed a couple of cars that appreared to slip and then ran into each other.

Moving on, we drove through the North-western tip of Nebraska, (I love nebraska, I have been there twice before on trips to the mid-west in 96' and 05'). And somewhere between Colorado and South Dakota I satarted to write a some words for song, the terrian is so inspiring.

We stayed in SD that night, and then the next day(Sunday) we went to Mount Rushmore and got rained out there. That night we stayed in De-Smet SD, at 'Ingalls Homestead', you know, Little house on the Praire. We slept on the same land they did in the 1880's. The next day (Monday) we stayed there and did a tour of it, and just relaxed. I wrote some music to the words I wrote earlier, under cottonwood trees that 'Pa' planted 130 years ago. Awesome. :)

Yeasterday we left De-Smet stopped in a little town called 'Tyler' Minn, (there's a Tyler in TX too) we then arrived here yeasterday afternoon. That is after stopping by in 'Walnut Grove' and getting 'bugged' out there by 'Plum Creek'. (another little house site. (To many bugs byt the creek, it's bug season, or at least 'gnat season'.

Today we just stayed here and relaxed, while the rest of the family gets over being sick. So Among other things I got to play guitar again un der some more '130' year old trees. Tomorrow, we will go to places like where my mom was born and around the area. My dad has never been here, so this is all new to him. (I was here in 05 as well)

We bought the newer 'little house' movie (five hours), it is so much better than the old TV show, much more accurate, and has some really good music in it; Irish fiddle doing scotish reels in minor keys.... you get the picture. Along with other 'wind instruments' and accustic guitar. Music style was a cross between Celtic and Indian.

I will edit this if there are any typo's.