Rockford, Illinois

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We haven't done that much since we left Rapid City which explains the lack of blog updates. We also didn't have internet access for over a week.

So we moved on to Minnesota where we stayed a night just outside Minneapolis. The next day we headed to the city where we were visiting a huge mall called "Mall of America" http://www.mallofamerica.com/
This wasn't just a shopping mall, it had roller coasters and other rides in the centre as well as indoor mini golf which we had a go on. We had a look around and bought a few things and finally got a haircut too. We stayed an hour north of the city in a town called Princeton. There was a park with hook-ups for the van which was on $7 per night. We needed to save some money after spending quite a bit in the mall so we stayed here for 5 nights.

We were at this park during 4th of July but there wasn't that much going on apart from fireworks. We just took it pretty easy here so we didn't spend much at all. We then moved on south aiming for Chicago stopping for a few nights near a place called Baraboo. The park itself was in the middle of nowhere though so again didn't do much. We will be spending quite a bit in the next few weeks though, so it's doing us some good.

We're now pretty close to Chicago and have a few days to fill in before we want to go into the city as we have tickets for a Green Day gig on the 13th. We will just move around the rv parks where we can get discount until then