Coming Home

Day 8:

11:00 pm March 23 - 9:00 pm March 24

We left the Hostal around 11:30, went to the airport and waited until six in the morning to get on the plane. You can imagine how tired we were but it was a pretty fun night! I played Spades with the guys, we slept for a while, I was crabby for a couple hours, Randy was taken for a background check. The usual. We got on our plane and left around 6 am to Miami, then our next plane left from Miami around 11. We got in Chicago around 1 and by this time I had gotten maybe four hours of sleep in over 24 hours. I was a hot mess. The trip on the bus was my favorite. We slept for a little while but I got to sit by Kari which was so great being able to catch up with her. Then Laura Moklestad and Emily Olson dared me to eat the sugar in the bottom of the Sour Patch Kids bag. This was the beginning of a very funny couple hours of us joking around. We got home at 9 and I have never been so excited to see corn fields! I love Des Moines and as wonderful as the Dominican is I am so thankful for our country and our city.

Matt taking a snooze. He snored pretty loud.

Playing presidents vs. aliens I believe.

Sleepy bear.

Erin sleeping.

Haha

All of us camped out.

The sunrise was so beautiful! And the clouds looked amazing

Our traveling group

You can't even tell this is Kari sleeping on my shoulder

We were all draggin...aka we all turned into dragons. Wiggy knows what I'm talking about.

Kari getting ready for her beauty rest

Our friends!

Sunset

The Liz and Kari of Drake University. Oh man, what a fun trip. Notice how attractive Kari and I look compared to Laura and Emily.