NAUVOO ILLINOIS TRIP MAY 2-9

We started our trip leaving Utah at 3:30 in the morning. We got all of the kids in the car hoping they would all go back to sleep. Unfortunatly our kids were all excited to be able to watch a video in the car so they all stayed awake. Andrew is our reading fanatic so on our way I saw a red light in the back of the car and Andrew was reading his book by a glow stick. We drove and made it to Rawlins Wyoming and got out and gas up. It was really intresting because the truck stop was a very busy place because they had closed the road ahead the night before because of snow so all of the trucker had to spend the night somewhere else and they all were driving through that morning. After Rawlins there were about 10 to 15 semi that had jack knifed off of the freeway and we had to watch for ice and snow on the road. It is MAY and there is a big snow storm!!!!
We finally made it to North Platte Nebraska where we spent the night in a Holiday Inn. The kids really liked the pool and we ate at an Applebee's in town. The kids were pretty good on this leg of the trip we are about 8 hrs from my brothers house in Kirksville Missouri.