Lubbock

I've been here in Lubbock, Texas for 2 weeks now, and it's finally time for a blog post. Who would have thought it would be so hard to write about the most adventurous thing I've ever done?

Firstly, I have to apologize to the Texans. Before coming here, I complained to all my friends that I hated the southern accent and I hoped I wouldn't pick it up! Well y'all (hehe) I have to say that after a couple weeks I really don't mind it at all. Initially I was counting how many times people said y'all in a conversation, but now it just flows right through my brain and I don't even notice.

They have cactii in Texas!!

Another odd point about Texas...the pace is entirely different. People talk slower and move slower. Except on highways, where the speed limit is usually 75. Although apparently the 5 over leniency does not apply when you have NY plates. Also people in Lubbock seem to be terrible drivers...for example, merging lanes are very short, but people do not move over so people can merge, and the people merging just pull into traffic willy-nilly, without looking! Crazies.

Our road trip here was fun...and soooo long!! It took us 3 days. Here's some of the highlights, so I don't bore you to death.

Imagine the giant salads you could eat with this

• World's largest wind chime (which you can actually ring!) and world's largest golf tee in Casey, Ill. 
• World's largest ketchup bottle in Collinsville, Ind.
• Having the pharmacy tech call a "code 5 in cosmetics" over the intercom to get someone to open the bathrooms for us in a Walgreens.
• Going up to the top of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis
• Seeing the world's largest fork at 5am in a lightning storm

That's all for now...more to come as the adventures continue!