After a long 24+ hour drive we arrived at our first real destination, Salt Lake City. Last night's drive gave us some interesting stories and taught us some valuable lessons.
Lesson/story 1: Nebraska stinks literally and figuratively. There is nothing to see really because it's all farmland. Next, we stopped in the middle of the night to get gas and could smell nothing but manure. Finally they tried to sell us gas with corn in it (ethanol) for a discounted price but we weren't having that garbage.
Lesson/story 2: Horse statues that appear to be holding guns at a distance may in fact be a horse with an eagle when viewed at close range. People in Wyoming also have an intimate knowledge of horse anatomy (use your imagination at your own risk).
Story 3: We hit up our second DDD location in Salt Lake. We were going to go to Moochie's Meatballs which had "Italian food" but really was just Philly cheesesteaks and meatball sandwiches etc. The place was undergoing renovations though and just had an outdoor grill thing working but it was snowing. We decided to go somewhere else.
The place we ended up going to is called the Blue Plate Diner. They were a lot like a more adventurous, less greasy Wee Willies. I had the Spanish which was an omelet with cheese, salsa, guacamole, and sour cream and came with home fries and toast. Michael went with the country fried chicken (breakfast variety), Greg got the Utah which was another kind of omelet, Adam got country fried chicken too (but dinner version). It was a good time all around but was made by Adam's antics with their soda fountain. He kept the waitress entertained by getting coke with coconut, mint, hazelnut and amaretto flavoring.
The wrap up: We kept the night pretty chill. We're pretty tired from driving straight through the night, Salt Lake doesn't have a lot of interesting stuff to do and it we got a decent amount of snow. After dinner we watched some TV in the room and Greg, Michael and Adam played some N64 until they could go to bed at a decent hour. Rob fell asleep at like 6.
Tomorrow morning we'll get up early to take advantage of our free breakfast at the hotel and go to church before we pack it on up and make the 12ish hour trek through the mountains to Portland. Should be a good day but another long one.
Unfortunately we probably won't be posting any videos until after we get back to Bloomington and even that is a maybe. The camera we brought won't let you transfer the videos onto your computer unless you have the software provided by the camera and that is something that we don't have but we're working on.
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