Robots on the Road: Day Five

Ok, sorry about yesterday. The pity party is over and we're moving on.  Last night, everyone got a good nights sleep in a room that, for once, was larger than a breadbox.

We started at 6am again this morning because we knew we had 10 hours of driving ahead of us. We started the day in Taos, NM. We drove through the hills of northern New Mexico and crossed over into Colorado as the sun rose and it was, as every sunrise on this trip has been, glorious.

We drove more curvy back roads and saw tiny towns and gorgeous ranches. We saw lots of cattle and the girls were so funny, wondering where all the black and white cows were.  We moved into the flat southeast corner of Colorado and for the first time on this trip, Hana complained "I'm bored! Colorado is so boring!"
We stopped in Lamar, CO for gas and lunch at Sonic. When faced with a cherry limeade, suddenly, Colorado wasn't so boring.

We got back on the road and crossed the border into Kansas. I yelled back, "Hana! We're in Kansas!" as I have every time we cross over into a new state. I heard Hana in the back say, "We're in Kansas! Saffron, your name is no longer Saffron! Now your name is Toto and my name is Dorothy!". Everyday that girl makes me laugh!

If I were a kid, I would have waited till we got to Kansas to complain about being bored. Oh my goodness, this is the flattest state I've ever been in! We've been so lucky with all the great scenery we've been driving by for the last few days.  My girls had already gotten bored with being bored and moved on to giggling at each other and making their own fun. They were taking wacky pictures and making up stories about billboards we passed. We listened to Lilly's music and got her to sing. We laughed as we listened to her fake snore and we all joined in and got Lilly to laugh, too.

We spent 12 hours on the road and arrived at our hotel just in time to eat in the in house restaurant and do some laundry. Now Lilly has her mermaid and her puppy stuffy back and she is falling asleep happily. Ria and Hana are cuddling with Saffron and John is watching the news.

So here we are, a family of robots, in Wichita, Kansas.