My First Full Week as a Wannabe Hoosier

There is so much to tell that I cannot possibly do it justice in one post.  So, highlights will be the best way to report on it all.

I got a job. I am waitressing at a pizza restaurant.  Lets just say I probably would make more money in a week in California than I would in a month in Indiana.  But no matter, I am not here to get rich.  And today, I drove to my job down windy back country roads all by myself! And I did not get lost or hit any deer or raccoons!  Hoorah!  I will try to post a picture of those roads next time so you know what I am talking about!

I have been traveling all over and sleeping very little. Yet loving all that I get to experience.  Here are some pictures from some of my 4th of July festivities.

We went to Illinois for some fireworks.  There are lots and lots and lots of corn fields.  Oh and Amish communities:

Yep, they dress like that all the time and drive horse-drawn buggies down the highways.

Then we had some slip-n-slide fun with the kiddos.  It was 95 and extremely humid. Thanks David for forgetting to tell me to bring a bathing suit!

How many Miller boys does it take to fix a small four-wheeler?.....

I think these are three of the cutest kids ever created.

This above photo is the epitome of 4th of July in the midwest.  Farms. Bean fields. A red barn.  Fireworks where ever the heck you want. Flat land.  Sun shining still at 9pm.

This was some of the finale from the firework show we went to see.  That line of fireworks stretched the length of a football field.  But then the most exciting part was unphotographed.  It started to thunder and lightning.  So I got to watch fireworks go off with bolts of lightning in the background.  AWESOME! Seriously, the coolest thing I have ever seen in the sky.  Then it proceeded to rain, no pour, no dump buckets, for the next 4 hours while we drove back to Indiana in the dark, with faulty windshield wipers down country roads that were not paved an overgrown with weeds.  Ok, maybe we were only on a country road for two miles.  But still, everything else was true!  Oh and for those four hours it literally was lightning 360 degrees all around us.  And it was constant.  Like nothing I have ever experienced in California! And the native Indianans I was with said the same, so you know it was quite a storm.  But we made it back and in bed by 4am. (I won't even mention that the next day I experienced the strongest wind of my life and almost got to experience a tornado - quite the weekend for weather!)

I think they are both pretty darn cute.