1 Coffee...5 States...12 Hours

We began our journey across the United States today. I woke up to my mom saying, "Torie, we have to go!" I always have a plan when it comes to waking up to go somewhere. I always set my alarm and know how long it will take me to get ready. In this case, I had already had a shower right before bed so all that was necessary was a good brushing of the teeth and hair, a swipe of deodorant and a little mascara. But of course, as usual, my mother didn't know my plan and woke me up before my alarm went off. At this point I had already tossed and turned through out the night because of my nasty cold and the fact that I was so excited that I woke up instantly. We met up with Nicole, my roommate and her mom Marianne, my co-worker at the 7 Eleven and our journey began. Nothing too eventful happened until we stopped for lunch at Quizno's. Attached to the Quizno's was what I call a mix of a WaWa and an antique shop... strange combo, I know! As we passed through Columbus, Ohio, I had made a list of cool things to see while passing through. The biggest basket in the world was too far out of the way, so we settled on the FART Sculpture. Yes, I said it. The fart sculpture is actually just a sculpture that says ART but if you stand in a certain spot, two light poles align and make an "F" that fits perfectly with the ART. It was so funny and we took a lot of pictures that I will eventually post but am not able to with the spotty hotel wireless. Sorry! Later, we stopped at another gas station to use the bathroom and the entire parking lot was filled with ice, snow and slush. While inside, we were all talking and over the loud speaker we all hear, "customer number 234, your shower is now ready." I looked over to an employee with a bewildered face and said, "YOU HAVE SHOWERS HERE!?" and he told me yes, that truckers had to stop somewhere. Haha Then he was like, "you looked at me like I was crazy" so I told him that it was my first time in Indiana and that I had never heard of that before. We finally arrived to Plainfield, Indiana around 6:30. After we checked into the hotel, we went over to this little restaurant across the street called The Black Swan Brewpub. I had Sweet Potato Gnocci with  Braised Duck and Shitoki Mushrooms, it was delicious! The chef brought all of the food to us himself and we were so impressed. We all enjoyed our meals and then asked him about his desserts. After he explained, I asked him if he had previously been in a boy band because his name was Nick Carter :) (sorry I am product of the 90's I know my boy bands) He laughed and told us about getting a call in college from a giddy freshman girl thinking it was the real famous Nick Carter from the Backstreet Boys. We ordered desert and I got the cookie and milk. I am telling you that it was the absolute best cookie that I have ever had in my whole life! I can't get over how good that cookie was! Over all we had a great trip here! We are expecting snow in the morning here in Plainfield so we are going to try to get out of here early around 6. Pray that we arrive in Wichita safely! I am going to try to hold out and watch SNL but we shall see how long this lasts! I can't wait to get to Kansas! Goodnight for now!