It's Raining Frogs...

I have had this post in the draft section of my blog for over two months now...finally, I will post it.

Here it is...the nitty-gritty details of family vacations.

In the beginning, we planned this vacation for this time of year for two reasons. One, I am leaving for the summer and two, pre-tornado season.

My dad said, "Oh don't worry Sara, it's pre-tornado season, we won't have to worry about that." It turns out, this past week was one of the worst weeks this year in tornadoes. We arrived in Winona, Minnesota, a day late (because of the stupid snow storm that closed the roads and a flat tire) and slightly tired. For the next couple of days, we would be refreshing our memory banks about my mom's history and the five or so years my dad lived there. The first day was great. The second day, there was a tornado warning directly for Winona and I was stuck in my hotel room. As a young child, I was forever scarred from a close tornado in this very city. So much for promising good weather...hah.

After that scare, we went to dinner. It was still raining buckets but, that didn't stop us. As we were driving home, there was white moving spots on the road. I was informed that they were frogs, the roads were covered and there was no way around hitting them. Dad told us not to think about it, but how could you not.

Our next adventure was to visit Aunt Judy. The part of the trip I looked forward to the most. I haven't seen her since she was in Utah for my mom's funeral. She is a 'hoot!' All we did was laugh the entire time.

These moments were the highlights of the trip. But here are some small details on other things.

-Mount Rushmore - Ugly Mountain Goat
-Belle Fourche - 'bell fu'-sh'
-Aladdin...Wyoming - not where Aladdin the character is from...big disappointment.
-Sock Puppets - 22 hours one way.
-The Corn Palace
-Home Again!

I love family vacations, but this one was really interesting.