One of the highlights of the trip was when me, Kinsey, Amy and Seth went on a tour of the Sioux City tourist spots.
The bathroom at Amy's hospital
The 33 foot tall Jesus
The 30 foot tall Mary
Clearly there is no fun allowed at this park. "Do not let your children climb ON ANYTHING"
There were all these posts throughout the garden that you could pay to put a plaque on. For $800 Kinsey and I could immortalize the awesomeness of our trip for all of Sioux City to see.
A life sized wood carving of the Last Supper
Kinsey wishing she was at the Last Supper
A painting of the man who carved the Last Supper
Next we went to the Louis and Clark Interpretive Center. It's kind of like a mini museum right on the Missouri river and it seemed to be all about correcting the historical inaccuracies of the Louis and Clark Story.
I'm not entirely sure why we're "remembering" heroes rather than just plain old remembering them, but...
... it's best to remember that they probably did not wear that much fringe.
Next were the animatronic robots who taught us all about the death of Sergeant Floyd, the only member of the expedition to not make it. I'm pretty sure he died of Typhoid. I clearly was not paying enough attention to the historical facts the Interpretive Center was trying to teach me.
The rest of the Interpretive center varied from taking itself too seriously to underestimating how immature the average visitor is.
I'm going to be in a lot of trouble for blogging this one. Bonus points if you can guess why we really really needed to take this picture. (Yes there is a legitimate reason, not just our immaturity) Also, that's not the Washington monument, it's the Sergeant Floyd monument in Sioux City.
And did I mention there's no picture taking allowed in the interpretive center? Clearly Kinsey and I can't go anywhere without getting ourselves into a bit of trouble.
Kinsey is Louis and I'm Clark. The dog's named Seaman.
Over the rest of the weekend we were able to see Seth and Amy's new house, drove up to Sioux Center, visited the Van Gorps at their campsite in Nebraska, ate dinner with Deb and Gary at an Arby's in Des Moines... Who could have asked for a better road trip?
6 comments:
A few things, Alex.
1. "A painting of the man who carved the Last Supper" = the best sentence I've read all day.
2. Sergeant Floyd died of appendicitis. Get your animatronic facts straight.
3. Drop Dead Gorgeous!!!! (..."I think I misunderstood the assignment...." :D
HAHAHAHAHAHA laughing so much..you are an excellent writer :) and I was going to write and let you know that he died of appendicitis - but that dork Jenna beat me to it. I did learn that at the center while you guys were taking illegal pictures...somehow I missed you taking all of these :) haha
Well thank you!
a) I'd forgotten I even had that picture until I was flipping through all of them to pick out which ones I wanted to post.
b) Hey, I admit I wasn't actually playing all that much attention to the facts.
c) woo 5 points to Jenna! I seriously love that movie so much.
Amy- I'm not sure where you were. I was definitely trying to be subtle though. I didn't want them to yell at me.
I love the Lewis and Clark pose....glorious.
um, this is awesome. AWESOME. especially the jesus and mary. and omg the last supper.
Yay! I've been waiting for this post and am glad that someone understood our "special" picture (and didn't think we were just perverts). I'm honored to be able to road trip with you. Where to next?
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