My random thoughts as we travel across the great state of Wyoming

• One of the greatest joys my family members get out of life is getting a rise out of me. I get particularly grossed out by hotel room carpet. I will NOT walk on the carpet in bare feet or even just socks. Shoes are worn at all times. If you really think about it, it is SUPER GROSS. I also try to encourage my family members into wearing shoes at all times, as well. They do not seem to be as put off by the nastiness as I am. Not only are they not put off, Trent and Cassie like to gross me out even further by rolling all over the floor and exclaiming, “look Mom, I am going to lick the carpet”. I am equally grossed out by the bed spreads (come on, you’ve seen Dateline). They also enjoy woolly-boogering (West Virginia word) all over the bed spreads and rolling themselves up in them. Some days I think I should just put them in foster care.
• Cassie does an excellent job policing herself. She didn’t want to go to the Rodeo due to cruelty to animals. She covers her eyes during “bad parts” of movies Brad rented and wouldn’t let Brad buy the Epic movie because it was the unrated version.
  
• Not sure I can take anymore Johnny Cash
  
• I asked Brad to help me out with a few interesting points to share on the blog. He is not much help; he said all he could think to write about was Rod being ballheaded.
  
• Whenever Brad thinks there is a lot of something (for instance, windmills in Wyoming that he keeps making me look at), he says “there must be 57 of ‘em”. I am so sick of that.
  
• I really hope we can shave a day of this trip and get home on Thursday instead of Friday.
  
• From Cassie: why didn’t we leave Trent at home?
  
• I am not sure any of us are going to like each other by the time we get home.