Still homeless.

Our place isn't ready yet... So here's hoping we'll stop being homeless before this week is out. They said mid-week but we haven't heard anything new. And since it's Tuesday, there's no telling... Fingers crossed.

I'm very much over hotel living... and not really having somewhere to take the dogs to get a bath. Cause we went to the park the other day... it had rained and the pups found the creek. Splashed around a bit, then found a tree stump with some lovely smelling something on it (it didn't really smell lovely. It was like death. Which is why they need a good bath now). We gave them a bath at the hotel, but I don't think it quite did the trick. And Charles needs a good tooth brushing. His breath is BAD.

They're super bored with hotel life.

We attempted to look for new bikes today (it's our anniversary gift to each other) but the sports store we went to had not a single bike inside. They don't do that. So we didn't get to even look. Boo. Strike one. We'll try again elsewhere.

Yesterday was fun. Turns out it was John Wayne's birthday. And as it happens, we are staying only an hour from his birthplace. They have made his childhood home a museum and had a big celebration all weekend. Monday was his actual birthday though, and since it was Memorial Day, Dustin was off, so we went. It was cute. The lady who gave us the tour though kept saying "well y'all probably don't know who any of these people are." She mentioned Maureen O'Hara and Jimmy Stewart. Don't tell me I don't know Jimmy Stewart <3. But anyways, she was very sweet overall though. We got a cool mug with one of his worthy quotes on it. Got some pictures in front of the house and such. No photos were allowed inside, but it was awesome. Had the original wood floors and wood door and window frames. Very pretty.

Turns out John Wayne was born in Madison County... as in The Bridges of Madison County. So we also went and found one of the six remaining bridges to document. We plan to see the others on another trip sometime. We also saw this adorable stone school house. It's bigger than I would have thought, and we couldn't go inside, but was still quite fun to see. You can see pictures from the adventure on my Instagram (http://instagram.com/jasminemallet), or if we're friends on Facebook ;)

We've decided to exhaust any and all possible enjoyable Iowa travels in the year we're here. Then we never feel a need to come back. ;) Hehehe. Dustin thinks it would be cool to just always move every couple of years after we've exhausted the region and explore a new one. This is an interesting idea. Until you remember that means we have to pack up our crap and leap across the country every two years or so...

I need to get a job... I'm distracted though because Dustin is going somewhere next week I want to go, too... So maybe that'll happen.

Oh! And I may get to meet Kevin Costner. Realistic chances of that may be slim to none, but let's just say it's the anniversary of a very awesome movie he was in and we're going to the celebration! So who knows? It could happen... Sadly my dad can't join us. He would have loved it.

But anyway. This may be our last night in this hotel, so I'm going to go clean up some of our junk.
Later daze!
Jasmine