Sunday, July 09, 2006

Trip Wrap-up

Well, we made it home safely Friday night. I've just been busy and haven't been able to get to the computer! Bob left the house pretty clean, but there is something about when the boys step into the house that just makes it disintegrate into chaos and confusion. So yesterday and today were spent trying to get it into some semblance of order. Tomorrow will be laundry. Hre's a wrap-up of the last few days of the trip:

Tuesday (Fourth of July): We went with Dan and Melinda to a little 4th of July parade in Fairborn. It was raining, but the boys liked that lots of parade participnats threw candy for them to collect. We had an international-flavored dinner that night with Chinese friends of Mom and Dad's, as well as friends from Jordan joining us. The best part of the day was that Bob was able to catch a hop from Andrews, so he flew in around 10:30 PM. The "excuse" the Air Force used was that some AFMC general needed to be at a meeting at the Pentagon Wednesday morning, but we knew God really just called him out there so the plane would be there to fly Bob back to Ohio! : )

Wednesday: We all, along with Dan and Melinda as well as Amy and her 2 boys, went to the Columbus Zoo. It was a free day for active duty military and their immediate family! Woohoo! The weather turned cooler, so we had a very pleasant day. Everyone was pretty pooped at the end though. We went straight to Youngs where we met Mom and Dad. No trip to Ohio is complete without a trip to Youngs Dairy! You may be asking what happened to my no dairy diet? Well, again I fudged quite a bit on vacation, and Anna started spitting up a lot more. In fact, the chocolate peanut butter ice cream I consumed at Youngs in particular seemed to disagree. Oh well.

Thursday: One last play date at Amy's. The boys have really been playing well together. After dinner we walked to the park that was by our old house. Again, the weather was just beautiful--Anna actually got a little chilly and I had to put a blanket over her. The city has added a lot of nice equipment to that playground! The boys are already asking when we can go back. LOL!

Friday: We didn't leave until 11:45, so we had a nice leisurely morning. Anna did well in the car again, praise the Lord. We were also very thankful that we were able to avoid what looked like it would have been a several hour stop on I-70 just west of the W. VA border. We came to a complete stop and could see 2 ambulances and a police car on the other side of the highway come over to our side and drive a little ways up, where presumably an accident had just happened. No one moved for awhile, but we were in the left lane, and not too far ahead of us was that emergency vehicle turnaround in the median. The cars in front of us started turning around there, and finally so did we. We backtracked to the previous exit and took Rt. 40 for less than a mile before getting back onto the now empty highway. Whew! We made it home about 10:00.

We listened to By the Shores of Silver Lake on the way home. It's another book by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and it's the book I remember least from when I was a child out of the whole series. I was glad we listened to it in the car--I think we might have gotten kind of bogged down just reading it aloud. The neat part about hearing it was there were many instances in the story where Pa was playing the fiddle and people were singing. The lyrics are in the book, but on tape they actually had someone playing the fiddle and singing the songs! Much better than just reading the lyrics out loud.

So all in all it was a great trip. We so enjoyed seeing my brother and his wife. Melinda has the cutest little "first baby" pooch! We're all excited about having another baby in the family (and I am particularily excited about not having to carry it, LOL!). I hope to post some pictures later this week, but for right now, I am off to bed. Goodnight!

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