Here is the link to Megan Nadolski's website were she has some pictures of our bus trip. http://www.megannadolski.com/pages/galleries/photo_essays/ygw_01.html

This is approximately the route of our trip

Getting loaded up

Getting ready to leave

Getting ready for the first breakfast

Taking a walk in Missouri

The group of people at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum

Pumping bio-diesel into the bus

Parting shot of part of the Bechard family

Touring Hammonds Products Company

Neat scenery as we were driving

John and Garth playing chess

Getting ready for the wedding

Scenery in Kansas

parked at the church where the wedding was

The older children in the town of Seward, Nebraska

Taking a walk at the Seevers in Nebraska

Bowling with the Wetzel's in Nebraska

Logan digging snow at the Siegmann's in Wisconson

Breakfast at the Elwoods in Ada, Ohio

Progress!

Blake, Josh and Daniel have been spending their days putting on the finishing touches. They've added the table tops to the booth seats and some trim. We'd like to get formica to finish up the table tops and the counter top.

Josh was working at the bathroom door. It is being made of a piece of 1" plywood that dad picked up at an auction for very little. (The table tops are of this same plywood.)

Logan and Mom have finished the upholstering of the booth seats and the couch. We weren't sure we were going to do the couch for this trip, but after discovering the upholstery cleaner would cost $20 to rent, we decided to do it. The 19 or 20 yards of fabric was from the local fabric warehouse for under $2/yard. We used foam from several old chairs that dad also got at the auction for the couch. We bought foam at a local bedding manufacturer for the booth seats for about $80. A couple zillion staples later: viola! seating.

The front booth

The couch

Mom and Logan figuring out how to upholster the booth seats

One of the mattresses