Toto

Hey! I'm back from scenic Tonganoxie, Kansas! It was definitely an experience I won't soon forget. Shayla was glad to see us, and we were glad to get out of Ft. Myers for a week. Kansas is probably what you'd expect: lots of corn, lots of road, lots of hills, and not a lot of much else. Except Sonic Drive-In. Those things are everywhere! When you look out towards the hills in the distance, the horizon is punctuated with yellow and blue neon signs. It's kind of tragic, really. I'm not going to describe my entire vacation, since we really didn't do anything too amazing. We (Taylor and Shayla) went shopping, and we sampled a lot of the local cuisine. Tonganoxie is sort of like Sanibel Island; if you want to go somewhere cool, you have to drive for awhile. Anyway, I took some quick snapshots of my trip. Taylor has an $800 Nikon camera, so she was the principal photographer. I'ma try to get her to email me some of those.

Ahem! On to the memories!





This was my bed for 5 days. It was a spongy little futon, but it was comfortable in a weird, uncomfortable way.

Taylor just had to order her tater tots herself. Notice how Shayla seems used to this sort of behavior...

A very, very creepy doll in Shayla's basement. That thing gave me the jibblies.

I followed the girls around a mall for 3 hours on Wednesday, so Shayla bought me a book for being such a good sport. If you know me, you know I love this series and this author. I was very excited. However, my excitement was soon tempered when the girls dragged me into a thousand more stores. In all, we would spend about 6 hours at this mall.

The second photo was a 3D diorama of Super Mario World displayed in a storefront in downtown Lawrence. It was really cool. Sorry I had to put the description down here, but this damn Blogger format won't let me put text up there. I hate this thing.

When I returned to Ft. Myers yesterday at about 5:00PM, I was greeted by gray skies, upped gas prices, and a triple-homicide (or something of the like) in San Carlos Park.

Home, sweet home.

-J