Day 20- Kansas

Day 20: Kansas 

Hello from missamerica.com, it’s the Grumpys here and we are blogging. This is Aaron Williams (Narrator), Patrick (Patty Daddy) O’Sullivan, Josiah Lester (The Pit Viper), Maggie (The Braggie) Black, Audrey Painter (The Crawdaddy Kidnapper), Quinn (Nice Shin) Moegling, Madelynn (Momdabom.com) Hutson, Kara (Marinara) Dugan, Meredith (Don’t Careth) (Editor) Harris, and Addie (The Wingman) Dingman. 
 We would like to share our wonderful and exciting day of driving through corn, wheat, and oil rigs. This was the most jam-packed day of TWB (Insert the pictures of sleeping people).  Goodbye.
Just kidding, we are not done. 
Our day started at 7 am to the wonderful singer that is named Dallas. She sang us a beautiful, amazing remix of a good morning song. It was not good. We hated it. After this, we packed our stuff and walked down the staircase to see our wonderful counselor KS to say good morning. Reminiscing about the group showers last night the guys loaded the bus as one. Randy took us all the way down to Wally World 10 minutes away. The cooks acquired our tasty food, which was breakfast and lunch for day 20. For breakfast we had some tasteless synonym (cinnamon) rolls with cereal and milk. After it settled in our tummies, William Caleb Puckett played a game. The game was a guess who of anonymous fun facts about TWBers. This girl named Addie Dingman accidentally killed her class guinea pig on Thanksgiving. Next, we finished Cars… kachow, and Rocky… the movie. There was some tarp talk throughout the bus, which is bus talk. 
  For our yummy lunch, we had pizza rolls on tortillas. EW. But, we ate them. To conclude our fun time on the bus, we held our annual Kansas karaoke event. John Hunter the Plaster Master opened us up with “Baby…” and our counselor Brice “The Batman” Wayne with “…its cold outside”.  Mr. Grant “Brad Pitt” Deaton closed with a wonderful rendition of Dead Puppies. Not sure where he found those but ok. Thank you, Grant. 
We got treated to a nice pit stop at an oil rig. Very cool. Nice View. Made Kansas worth it. So thankful. The counselors tricked us at the oil rig. They closed the doors to the bus and van AND drove off. How fun. Just kidding guys, it was JUST a prank. The funny part is most of us did not fall for it. They let us back on, but we were not happy campers. To get back at them, we slept even more. Jokes on them though, our dreams were us pranking them back and throwing corn at them. We went to 2 Wally Worlds today, that’s a treat if I’ve ever seen one. (Two Walmarts because Kansas is so fun.) At our second Wally World, it had a Subway to get a sandwich. The cooks bought dinner and went WAY over budget. Couldn’t be us. To continue our eventful day, we journeyed to our campsite through the harsh environment, which is Kansas. At the campsite, the cooks made a wonderful din-din of nachos. Some of us took showers and we all camped underneath the Kansas stars.
Kachow… ;). The Grumpys

Blogging was going great as Aaron was typing up a masterpiece


Sneezys made a great dinner but it's nachos.





Hunter the Plaster Master and Will Puckett twinning

pose pose, photoshoot, pose.


cheese :| !!??

Josiah Lester, the karaoke king


A beautiful rendition of Shakira by Ryan Joyce and Rocco Pavone

Sally Bumgarner and Ashton Layh blessing us with "All Too Well" by Taylor Swift



Group picture at the fan-favorite oil rig

this is awesome oil.

OMG AN OIL RIG?



No place we'd rather be!

I l"ike" this pic




Waka waka aye aye!

lights camera kansas


slay bird slay.

Go Wolfpack!


GO PACK



Spot the difference


heyyyyy, my boy.

Thumbs up for Kansas rest stop

Twining with the wildlife here in Kansas

Socks and Chacos


Family picture with Amy Baker and Grace Corripio

Fun fact: Our bus driver, Randy, played the Wicked Witch of the West when he was in 8th grade




Day 19- Air Force Academy & Olympic and Paralympic Museum

Day 19: Air Force Academy & Olympic and Paralympic Museum
Hey hey it’s the Happys! 
This morning Alyssa and Grant thought it would be a great idea to play a little basketball at 5:30 this morning to wake us up (we disagree). We were ahead of schedule this morning leaving the Custer YMCA at 6:05 to head towards Colorado Springs! After a nice morning nap on the bus, we enjoyed pop-tarts and oranges for breakfast before making our first stop at a rest area in Lusk with a playground for us to swing on. We had a few more hours on the bus playing what are the odds and catch phrase, making bracelets, and listening to some music before making it to Cheyenne, Wyoming. We grabbed some snacks at a Flying J and then were off on our final stretch before making it to the Air Force Academy where we walked like the cadets while Aubrey kissed one on the cheek for good luck. We listened to Reagan’s research and spent some time watching a documentary to learn just what life is like at the Academy. Then we headed on to the US Olympic and Paralympic Museum to admire the artifacts and play on the interactive simulations that allowed us to step into the shoes of Olympic and Paralympic athletes. After loading the bus again, the counselors said that we were in for a surprise as we started driving through the Garden of the Gods to catch some great views. We made it to Colorado College where we practiced for our dwarf dance competition out on the lawn and listened to Ryan J., Rachel, and Ashton’s research. Then, the highlight of our dining experience on the whole trip: some real food. When we saw the Dominos delivery car pull up there wasn’t a face without a smile. We devoured pepperoni and cheese pizza after a friendly Hunger Games competition of food catching. Randy gave us some solid life advice and then had staff trivia to determine who got the last five slices of pizza, things got intense. The Grumpys unpacked the bus and we moved everything inside the Colorado College gym to set up our sleeping bags and do some last minute touch ups to our dances! Our 2022 Trip 3 dance competition winners were the GRUMPYS! After the competition was over, we had a dance party to celebrate our new friends turned family. We showered and headed to bed for our long drive through Kansas tomorrow.

See you in 5 days!
Happys over and out
Hunter's .5 pic



Patty's passed out LOL



Besties who nap together will always be together 



Morning Naps hit different 






Gilberts Pit Vipers are ALWAYS ON



Smiling even though the girls bathroom line is SO long!


Maddie and Caroline are so happy to be headed to Colorado


Little kids at heart!






Morning workout in WY!

Aaron and Jason look like they just walked out of the beauty shop before the stylist was done HAHA!




Gilbert in his element at the Air Force Academy




TWB takes on USAFA

Reagan Kaufmann presenting on the Air Force Academy










Aubrey kissing a Cadet for good luck!




YAY GIFT SHOP!



Ryan J. and Rocco love the Olympic Museum


Meredith T. and Reagan racing!



Archery pros





Hunter and his boo


Tency doing the Bobsledding simulation









Big muscle girls!





Long jump competition





Group photo with the Eagle!


Chatting with Olympians



Aedan and Alex learning about the Olympics!


Our Gold Medalist!



WOW GLASS CEILING!



USA!










Garden of the Gods group picture!

Rachel Long presenting on the State of Colorado

Ryan Joyce presenting on Colorado College

Ashton Layh presenting on the US Olympic and Paralympic Museum

Up close and personal with Mer Mer



Rock, Paper, Scissors competition!







Hunter, Kiersten and Tency in the Rock, Paper, Scissor Congo line




Grant explaining our Hunger Games challenge



Cuddle time!

Our dance competition winners: the GRUMPYS

The Sleepys

The Bashfuls

The Happys (don't worry the mustaches came off... somewhat!)

The Dopeys

The Sneezys 

DANCE PARTY TIME!




Sneezy Group Dance 

Dopey Group Dance 

Bashful Group Dance 

Happy Group Dance 

Sleepy Group Dance

The Winning Group!!! Way to go Grumpy Group!