Oh man!!!!  I have been horrible at keeping updated the past couple months.  June was great!  I had a lot of fun quality time with Tricia on our train trip around the country.  It was so great to see family along the way too.

We had a blast in Phoenix with Jenny, Lincoln, and the kids.  We went swimming almost constantly and those kids are just so cute.  Mae has always been a little unsure around me, but I won her over when I would put a pillow on my head and she could knock it off :)

The first leg of our train trip was a doozy.... We went from Phoenix to New Orleans.  A quick 40 hours straight on the train.  It felt really long and the scenery wasn't great going through Southern Arizona and New Mexico.  I was really surprised at how many people take the train.  I didn't think it would be very well occupied, but it was.  The train was full!  We go to New Orleans at around 9 pm.  We had a hotel reservation about .5 mile away from the train station.  We figured it wasn't a bad part of town so we decided to walk.  

It was so nice to sleep in a bed that night.  I was exhausted!  Sleeping on the train isn't the most fun, but it is definitely doable.  Then at 6am we walked back to the train station to get on the train again.  This was a much shorter ride for us even though it got delayed by about 3 hours.  

When we got to Atlanta it was so good to see Bob and Rita.  I haven't seen them for a long time.  Bob showed Trish and I some really great stores by their house.  There is a big Korean population in their town and some great grocery stores that have foods I've never seen.  But they had great prices on produce especially and so that is where Bob and Rita do a lot of their shopping.  We went to a really cool Museum of Natural History.  I was so happy when I saw the T-Rex skeleton on display.  I definitely had to get my picture taken by it! All in all it was a really fun time in Atlanta.

Then on the train again.  We got on in the evening and got to Washington DC in the morning.  We had to switch trains in DC.  I didn't leave the train station.  I have been there a few times and I was tired, so I stayed, watched our bags, and read.  Trish went out for a couple minutes, but not too long.  We were so happy that we got to see Nate`.  She came to the train station and chatted with us for about an hour before she had to go.  It was so good to see her!

Then on the train again.  We got to Chicago the following morning and we were ready to see the sights, atleast I was.  I had never been to Chicago before and I was so excited to be there.  Tricia's friend Sarah lives about an hour outside of Chicago so she came and hung out with us while we were there.  It was nice that she had a car for us to get around in.  There were some pretty awesome places.  I definitely want to visit Chicago again.  The hotel we stayed in that night was great!  It was along the Magnificent Mile and there was so much fun stuff by us.  The next day we had the morning to play.  We went to the Planetarium and saw a star show.  

Then back on the train.  We were headed straight through to Utah.  This was another long one, about 35 hours.  On this one though, there was a guy giving all kinds of random information from Denver to Salt Lake City.  I learned so much! And you know how I love random information.  

We finally got to SLC at around 11 pm.  As much fun as the trip was, it was good to be home!

I will post some pictures of the adventures either later today or tomorrow.  And I will also write about Hawaii so far :)