USA

Okay, it's been a while since I've posted and this will probably be one of the last posts since we've decided to cut the trip short and go home early. Currently we are in Wyoming on our way to the Yellowstone Park. Since my last post we have made a few stops. The first one was in Cleveland, Ohio where we visited the actual house used in the Christmas Story movie. Very cool.

Christmas Story House

Our next big stop was in Wisconsin, my new favourite state, where we visited a little cheese cellar and bought some delicious cheese! In the small building a tiny section was dedicated to selling cheese and the rest was filled with cheese making equipment where workers were busy cleaning after a long day of cheese making.

Widmer's Cheese Cellar

Nom nom nom

Just down the street we stopped at a little chocolate shop filled with homemade chocolates and lots of other locally made sweets, wines, jams, etc. We spent a good while here chatting with one very enthusiastic employee listing many many places we can stop on our way home. We also chatted with the chocolate maker who had been completely blind since he was two and has been very successful  in his chocolate making and baking. Eventually, we left and started driving further west towards Minnesota. Once here, we had a little visit with Keith, another car guy that Mike knows then we were on our way again. We slowed down for a minute in South Dakota to take a photo of the Corn Palace, below.

Corn Palace

Yesterday we continued the drive through South Dakota making a stop at the Pioneer Auto Museum. An older guys collection of everything old, some very neat things here. Here's a sample of the hundreds of photos Mike took...

Really!?

 Next we stopped at the famous Wall Drug in Wall. It's a huge drug store turned tourist destination selling all sorts of tourist gifts, books, clothes, jewelery, candy and drugs of course. There's also a restaurant, ice cream stand and homemade donuts. We probably spent a couple of hours here and didn't even see the outdoor half of it due to the weather. By the way, up until today we had been experiencing terrible weather, mainly thunder showers. Here's a photo from our drive today:

Bonus section!

Uneducated person of the day: "Canada is north of here?!"

Odd sighting: Camel grazing in Wisconsin backyard

State law: Illegal to sell alcohol on Sundays in Indiana and not after 9pm in neighbor state

Stupid sign of the day:

"Please make sure children are not left unattended in vehicles."

Do people honestly forget their children in their cars!?!?