This is Bubbles here, I am feeling a little sad. I had decided to do a play by play as we climbed up, up, up the mountain range. MaryAlice was enjoying the views so very much, and I was too. I thought that I was going to talk about all of the animals that I have seen since we got on the train. There have been some exotic ones: Ostrich, Llamas, even a Yak. There have been lots of cows and cattle most of them out in big big stretches of lands, but some were in feeding lots, there were even a really big herd of bison in a feeding lot. There were some brand new babies with the Mom's I mean really brand new babies. While I was thinking and remembering the animals that I saw and did not see, we began doing a very slow very winding climb up the mountains. We kept climbing up, farther and farther up, and around and we kept going through lots of little tunnels. I forgot about writing about the animals and began sharing what I was seeing, kind...
Wow, wow and we haven't even made it into the mountains yet, I can see them in distance and they are all snow capped. We are just now pulling into Denver, Colorado. MaryAlice had such a good time driving through the midwest, Illinois and Iowa and as it was getting dark I think we crossed into Nebraska. You can see for miles and miiles and miles, first the flat fields of Illinois, then dthe little tiny rolling in Iowa. It was daylight when we crossed over the Mississippi River, there are very historical towns along the river and we saw some really old beautiful buildings. When you look out and see some trees you know that there is porbably a house there as well, protected by the trees and surrounded by rich dark farmland. Mary is our porter, and she is really funny, and boy does she keep us all in line. That is a good thing because we are on the train for a long time and we all have to take care of what we use. We slept good la...