The next driving day was Seth's 5th birthday. He was thrilled! He's been waiting for his birthday so that he could go to school and feel like a big kid. I picked out a Batman lego set for him and he carried it with him for three days because I didn't want to open it until we got home. As soon as we got home, we made the kids carry things in from the car and Seth recruited both Sam and Evelyn to build his lego set as fast as they could so that he could play with them.
In the car, we let him choose what we did to keep our minds busy... mostly he wanted to watch movies, so we did. We stopped part way through Nebraska for a picnic lunch at a Wildlife preserve. It is over 660 acres and has elk, deer, bison, hiking trails, a playground, and frogs. We let Seth pick what to buy for lunch and where to stop for dinner. We splurged a little because he wanted to go to a "Place that has the cookies with the papers inside it." Chinese food. The plates are big enough that we could split them between the kids and only spent $40 instead of $70. We were going to stop in Cheyenne for the night and go see the trains at the train station the next morning, but we couldn't find a hotel room for under $180, so Mary was kind enough to let us stay an extra night with her in Laramie.
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