TWB June 13th 2022 Experience: 2022-06-26

Day 20: Kansas

HEY EVERYONE!! Last but not least, it’s the Grumpy’s here: Sentrelle Graves, Bailey Allen, Harris Wilkinson, Abby Mitchell, Riley Brennan, Maggie Bassinger, Tripp Current, Henry Eisenhuth, Sarah Felton, and Libby Shaw checking in from Kansas!

Yesterday we were able to sleep in until 7am and we were sooo happy!! The first stop of the day was a driving tour of the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, where we got to see the beautiful red rock and the famous kissing camels that can be found on the mountain side!

We stopped at Walmart to get lots of snacks for our long road trip ahead. Everyone got their 4th of July accessories which was super awesome. Of course, we couldn’t forget our Colorado souvenirs as well!!!!!! We had everyone’s favorite breakfast: muffins with choices of chocolate chip, blueberry, and banana nut!

After entering the one and only Kansas we first stopped at the Kansas welcome center! Here we were greeted with nice and clean restrooms, beautiful art pieces and pictures of sunflowers and the Kansas countryside, and of course The Wizard of Oz was everywhere!

After we left the exit center, we drove for a few miles to Fike Park in Colby, Kansas and had a team competition! We didn’t know what it was until we lined up and they brought out the balloons. It was a relay where 1 person was standing across from the rest of their group and one by one, the others in the group had to go and pop a balloon in between themselves as quickly as possible. We had a ton of fun with this and of course the competition was fierce!

After the contest, we had a four-course gourmet meal for lunch: Ham and Cheese sandwiches (Hold the Mayo and/or Mustard), apples, pretzels, and cookies for dessert. Then the van hit a bump in the road (not literally) but don’t fear, Jake, Stetson and Charlie helped before it became an issue and replaced the van tire for precautionary reasons to keep us safe for the rest of our trip!

On the bus and van there was a lot of napping and snacking including: Maggie with her Starbuck’s French vanilla double shot and pineapple, Bailey with her Nutella biscuits, pop tarts and yogurt, Harris with his box of Fruity Pebbles, Abby with her mini bites and pretzels, and Riley with his cherry vanilla Coke. The bus got to watch Top Gun as we were driving through Kansas. We also made it back to central time zone so we’re only 1 hour behind from home!

We got to Tuttle Creek around 9:30 and the Sneezy’s made walking tacos for dinner (second best walking tacos made for the trip, spot number 1 being taken by yours truly). Except for the handful who washed their hair in the spicket, everyone went straight to bed instead of showering because it was late, and we were all tired from a day full of adventure!

Goodnight! Tomorrow we are headed to Missouri to ride the Archway to the West!

Our view of Garden of the Gods from our driving tour!

Colorado Spring or Mars?

Balanced Rock and the Sinking Ship!

Walmart time! Our Sneezy cooks buying breakfast and lunch!

Welcome to Kansas!

Competition time!

Time to clean up! We always try to leave it better than we found it!

Our tire changing experts on the job! We decided to replace the van tire out of precaution!

Day 19: Colorado- Olympic and Paralympic Museum

Hey folks, it’s the Happys here once again, Hayden, Jaclyn, Carson, MJ, Sam, Madison, Ellie, Harrison, Annaliese, Sarah, and Jake. For our final encore… we present… JULY 1st!

We started out early this morning, waking up at 5:30AM, BOOO!! Luckily, we had some good ole apple sauce, 2 croissants, and to top it all off, NUTELLA! We had a long drive ahead of us to Colorado, but we did take a quick pitstop at a Flying J, where we got ourselves Cinnabon from the #1 seller in the country. Afterwards we had a great traditional lunch of PBJ, cookies, and cheese balls. While on the road we got to take in the beautiful views of Wyoming as we traveled back through from South Dakota to Colorado. It is crazy to think how much of Wyoming we have covered within the past few days!

After our nice lunch we headed to the Airforce Academy, where we got wonderful souvenirs and saw our first rain shower of the trip. Many of us bought some AF merchandise, even some of us who cheer for Army and Navy! We then listened to some fabulous research from Marin, Sam, and Madison on the state of Colorado, the Air Force Academy, and Colorado College!

Afterwards, everyone enjoyed going to the interactive USA Olympic and Paralympic Museum, with races, many great stories, and seeing amazing equipment and items used by all the elite athletes. We were unable to go to the Garden of the Gods, but luckily we will get to raincheck for tomorrow! Tonight, we are bedding down at Colorado College, where we got a gourmet dinner of Domino’s pizza from our wonderful counselors! After our wonderful meal, we had a dance competition to the song Danger Zone. While the Happies were the best (maybe we are a little biased…), the Dopeys took home the trophy. Afterwards we were treated to a surprise counselor performance. Finally, we had a quick dance party to end the night! And we used some of the best shower facilities we have seen on this trip. Tomorrow, we have a long ride ahead of us, and only have 4 days left so we are soaking up every second!

Sadly, this is our last night as bloggers, but we are passing the torch to the GRUMPIES!!! Goodnight ‘Merica!!! The Happys!

Check out the links to our dance videos from our competition tonight for each group below!

Dopey

https://youtu.be/uNLQVtlJNo4

Sleepy

https://youtu.be/xktIwKKUOMk

Happy

https://youtu.be/VTk5_4_lEQw

Bashful

https://youtu.be/fol1YXXKsnI

Grumpy

https://youtu.be/5CkfQn6_htE