The Yellow Brick Road

Today was our first full day in Kansas since the move. But before we moved we had to do one last thing in Utah...

We visited the Hatch Family Chocolate Store! For those of you who don't know, it's the place that the Little Chocolatiers own (the show on TLC). We spent $8.09 on mediocre chocolate and not too much of it. We didn't get to see little people or get on tv because they weren't taping. A little disappointing? Yes. But I WILL keep going back until I see little people.

On Tuesday morning we started our drive to Kansas.

It was a very exciting drive. Here are some of the highlights:

There were miles and miles of these windmills. They were HUGE. We loved the change in scenery that they offered us.

There were lots of OZ signs. Hurray for Dorothy and Toto in Kansas.

Last but not least I saw signs for Ellsworth, Kansas. This was very exciting to me because I love that song by Rascal Flatts. One day we'll go. There's probably nothing there, but I don't care.

Today was a very productive day. Eric and I bought a dining room table, dresser, couch, and mattress. It was our first time buying those items so we took awhile and probably drove the sales people NUTS. I'm exhausted and glad that it's over now. We did, however, see the biggest furniture store in North America.

Driving up to this store gave a very similar feeling as driving up to Disneyland. It's like this huge magic kingdom full of furniture.

This is no mall; it's one store and it's way bigger than IKEA. Who would've thought that it'd be in Kansas?!

After shopping we were tired and STARVING. One of our sales peeps told us about a really popular BBQ joint in Overland Park, Jack Stack. It was our first time ever having real BBQ food.

Since Kansas is known for its BBQ, we had pretty high expectations. Our ribs didn't have very much meat on it and I don't think we're used to our meat being so well cooked. Maybe it's something that you have to grow up with to think it's the best. We liked it and all, but it wasn't the greatest thing we've ever tasted. Of course we'll keep on going to different restaurants. I'm sure we'll have a favorite in no time, whether it's the awesome Japanese Steakhouse we went to last night or not. Gotta love having nothing in the apartment and going out to eat!!