Opening day of road trip...	First sunset!	The sun... the sun...
Novali planning our visits... she was great with maps during the trip.	The original Illinios State Capital	The current capital
	Novali reaching out to the IL Welcoming the World statue under the dome.
Novali stepping into the Governors Office		House of Representatives
Where to next?	Everything in Springfield had a top hat.	Lincoln Museum
Lincoln Family... all the statues there were so life like!	Recreation of his boyhood home...	the Whitehouse...
Novali working the atlas to plan our route.		Novali loved all the rocks and new landscapes.
First thing she looked for in Oxford... cats...	Javi and Zoe's play room	Read Javi a bedtime story.
Downtown Oxford on the Square.		Courthouse
Lots of fun local places to eat... not enough time for them all!	Phone booth like from Oxford on the other side of the pond.	Lots of historic buildings and churches.
Visit to BottleTree Bakery...	Novali had to have a picture of her hot chocolate...	Downtown bookstore...
Butterfly garden at the park...		Zoe enjoying some birthday cake (cupcake actually)
Miguel and Novali made some ice cream		It turned out great!
The famous Lyceum at Ole Miss.	Such a scenic campus and great pillars everywhere.
Novali standing next to statue of James Meredeth.	I like the word on this side... as it relates to education (my fraternity Brothers will appreciate the reference).
Novali wanted to pose in front of the fountain...	Javi wanted to play IN it.	Fun afternoon campus tour of Ole Miss.
Fun park time again...		Saturday night Zoe wanted a story from Novali... not surprisingly the same book from the night before.
YUM	Javi wanted to run threw the sprinkler...	and drink from it...
William Faulkner's House.		Very cool Southern estate.
	He wrote on the walls of his office when working on a book.	Some of the original homes on the property.
Time for some Throwed Rolls!	Doesn't get more Southern than Coca Cola.	Thats a lot of Coke!
Novali refused to catch the first rolled tossed her way...	Finally caught half of one...	The rolls were so good she crammed as many as she could into a to go box...
Finally some swimming time in St. Louis!	Do I still have to take a shower?	Packed up for last day...
The original bridge.	Lewis and Clark.
The Arch... 630 feet high!	There were cool exhibits about how it was built.	In one of the little carts that take you to the top...
At the top!	Trying to see if we could see Chicago... too far.	Novali loved how small everything looked!
She went and picked up the arch...	I leaned on it for a while...	Novali took this great shot!
Lots of weird things on road trips... obviously dirty windshield and a Benz with a Segway strapped on it?	Yes, yes you can get a pizza on a road trip stop.	Our final sunset... nearly home!