I’m TIRED! I’ll try to stay awake and pump this post out. : )

Annika graced us with her presence at 4:00 a.m., but finally went back to sleep until 8:00.

Showered & breakfast.

We let the kids play for a bit while we checked e-mail etc. We headed out around 11:00 a.m.

Destination: Matt’s Aunts / Grandma’s house. We arrived around 11:30. They live in the most beautiful neighborhood. You should see the house that was just built next to them – it is HUGE and beautiful. It looks just about done… but I guess it has been sitting there for 3 years! The guy invested 3 Million into it, and then just kind of disappeared… WEIRD. We thought maybe we could take it off his hands for him if he cared to donate it… (of course we probably couldn’t even afford the taxes!) The kids walked down to the beach with Auntie Claire, (Matt, Annika & I later joined) and overall had a grand time. The weather was PERFECT – upper 70’s, a very light periodic breeze and sun to boot! We visited with Matt’s G’ma – who rested in bed the majority of the time. I felt so bad for her – she is experiencing a lot of pain, and she really wanted to be with us, but it was just too hard on her. Matt’s two cousins were also there along with the one cousin’s girlfriend and their baby girl who is 3 months old.

Matt’s brother arrived later in the day – around when we were getting ready to leave, so we only saw him for about 45 minutes unfortunately. The kids were looking forward to seeing “Uncle John”, but that’s the way the ball bounces sometimes. His significant other was not able to make it, so I guess we won’t be meeting her. They were supposed to be with us tomorrow – Tue. but that fell through as well, so they are two people we will miss spending much time with.

We had a nice meal, some quality sun, some interesting conversation and headed out around 5:00 p.m.

Next was Chuck E. Cheese. We had promised the kids we could go there sometime on our trip. Check, mission accomplished.

We headed back to the hotel around 7:00 and the kids promptly jumped into the whirlpool bath again Amazing how easy it is to get them to take baths when you have one of those around! Think we can convince them to install one in our parsonage? ha ha

They were in bed by 8:30, and two hours later, I am practically falling asleep typing this, so I am heading there as well. Tomorrow we check-out of this hotel, have a family BBQ and head back over the mountains to Ephrata. I probably won’t blog tomorrow night as it will be late late late when we get “home”.

C-

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