Indiana - The Crossroads of America

Despite Indiana's motto, I have never before found myself in that great state until last weekend. Our whole family went to visit our friends from UW, Max and Amy.

The drive from our house is about 6 hours long (not counting stops).

We left on Friday afternoon right as a massive thunderstorm hit our area on its way to Peoria, IL (the same direction we were travelling).

Despite the storm, we made it OK. As usual, the kids were probably more excited about swimming in the hotel pool than they were about anything else.

Ricky was nervous about the fact that we forgot his ear plugs (he has to wear them to protect his ears after having tubes put in in February). I was able to get to the store, though, and pick him up some beautiful bright orange plugs. Andrew thought they were so cool he insisted that he needed to wear some too.

While in Indianapolis, we went with Max and Amy to a WNBA game. The game was fun, but we regretted all of the pop Andrew and Ricky drank because both Rick and I spent a lot of time in the bathroom with the boys.

Sean and Rick were on camera. Amy got a picture of their faces up on the Megatron, but I haven't gotten it from her yet.

Can you tell Ricky is soooo excited? Yes, I know he is a generally happy and easily excitable person anyway.

In the following picture, the ball is just getting to the hoop. I tried to get a picture of a dunk early on in the game, but it didn't work out. Yes, WNBA players really can dunk the ball (sort of). Rick didn't believe me when I told him because, as you can probably guess, he was in the bathroom with one of the boys when it happened.

After visiting Indianapolis, we made the one hour drive to Bloomington to see Max's house. We went out on Lake Monroe in a boat.

We all loved that part of the trip and were sad when we had to cut the swimming short to begin the long drive home.

Thank you, Max and Amy for the wonderful visit!! We had a blast!

Comments

Debbie said…

Looks like lots of fun.

June 28, 2010 at 7:55 PM

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