Kansas City Missouri to Cincinnati Ohio

 We awoke to a beautiful Kansas City Missouri super sunny and bitterly cold. It was zero out. We stopped at latte land for a nice cold latte. Rule number one always ask for extra hot when you hear others asked for extra hot.  We have been using our phones the entire way for the fastest and best route for each stop. I am always the navigator and today was no different. We headed on the on-ramp to approach the freeway when Siri asked us to cross 5 lanes of rush hour traffic "now" and take the exit 100 feet ahead! I laughed pretty hard as Mat was trying to make this impossible endeavor. Cars were storming us left and right. We only made it two lanes and gave up. We exited in a not so nice part of Kansas City. Probably should have stayed low in the car but after 30 min we made it out safe and alive. Thought this place had tornados... Why are these shacks still standing? We proceded on hwy 70 between Kansas City and St. Louis. Mat was so amazed of all the cops. Not 30 seconds later lights and sirens and we pulled over. The first time Mat has gotten pulled over and was actually going the speed limit. Tabs are updated, seat belts on, no phones in use. WTH? Why us? Well I rolled down my window in the 0 degree weather, barely. The tall officer said Mat gets too close to a semi before passing it. "3 second rule." Ya okay officer...(5 lanes of 9 am traffic, bumper to bumper and he was waiting too long to pass). "Sir I need you to go sit in my car, it's how we do things around here." So now Mat was sitting in a cop car ( he did inform me this was a first). The cop said where are you from... Wow you have made quite the drive...duh cop!! So I tried to get a picture of Mat in the car as that would look good for the family and good on a resume. But there was too much crap in the car that was in the way. Mat was back there for about 7 minutes while I was just blown away about what was going on. Does he get to come back! Is not passing a semi soon enough equal to jail time? Soon enough Mat returns shaking in his boots! I just started laughing!! He informed me we both don't have warrants from Washington, and that there are 1 million cameras in cop cars, and the guy had a dog too (good thing he wasn't wearing the same clothes he was wearing in Denver Colorado). So basically this guy saw WA plates and wanted to see what we were running from!! We continued on the highway for many hours. Today was a 9.4 5 Hour Dr. and it seemed even longer. The only thing that kept us awake where the funny signs once again. I saw a fireworks stand that was an outlet mall. Not sure I'd ever want to buy fireworks at any sort of outlet. We saw the world's biggest boot collection in about four different towns not sure they'll communicate that they have the world's biggest boot collection. We also saw the biggest Winchime  and the biggest golf tee which mad mats day.  Today was definitely the day of "the biggest." Mat finally let me drive. But he felt carsick and became very bored very quickly. But I did finish out quite a bit of a drive today. We saw the arches in St. Louis as well as as the NASCAR speedway, some cool horserace track it must be famous somehow, and bypassed Indianapolis!  at 7 PM finally arrived at IKEA. We begin some shopping for a bed and a dresser. Because we have lots of room in this car, not! Our car is completely completely completely full! I think that Mat the semi driver has to stick his head out the window to pass now! Good thing Miley can curl up into a small snake. Went to bed after watching the State of the Union address now living on the east coast so we should be more politically involved! Off to bed! We just can't believe we only have one more day. Kind of sad. Pretty fun to see the country on the places we definitely want to go back to and the places we know we don't need to see again  like the state of Kansas. It's hard to believe we've already crossed the state of Washington Idaho Montana Wyoming Colorado Kansas Missouri Illinois Indiana and Ohio. And seen lots of rest areas! Until tomorrow!!