Day 18: Walnut Creek Campground and Iowa
This campground is amazing! The boys have loved riding bikes, it is really quiet making for great sleeping at night, and the weather has been perfect.
Today both Rob and I got to take some “me” time and headed out separately for runs. It felt amazing and was followed by actual chat time with Rob at lunch while the boys were playing and then a phone call with my bestie. Today was a good day.
After school and work were done, we headed to the hardware store for a toilet part. We are now looking at a noisy water pump, leaky bathroom sink, leaky freshwater toilet pipe, broken awning piece along with the tire squeak and taped on hood problems that are still to be resolved. All minor and fixable; we just have to make the time to fix them.
We had found a nice restaurant to get takeout from, but we passed a Little Caesars and the kids love their stuffed crust so we treated ourselves to that instead. We crossed over to Iowa to pick up the pizza and ate it in a nearby park (so we could mark another state off our list) before walking across the Bob Kerrey bridge which goes over the Missouri river from Nebraska to Iowa. On the bridge we learned that the Missouri River is the longest in the US and has 1/6th of the US is in its watershed.
I’m sure you got everything fixed! I would not like that part~
Oh no! That sounds like a lot of fairly important stuff to have fixed?! The only thing I remember from when I was in Iowa was a lot of corn and bean plants…your campsite looks beautiful! Glad you got a run in too! I love reading your little informational asides about trains, rivers, etc you’re seeing…real world schooling going on! Enjoy!!