ShannonAlbert.com - June 2009

Day 5 was Tuesday and Blake and I headed out to Wichita to stay with Andy's brother, Bob, his wife, Nicki, and their 3 children (Mia, 4 and the twins, Micah and Elizabeth who are 10 months old). Shortly after we got there, we headed off to a class that Mia's is enrolled in at the YMCA where the kids play sports. Today was basketball day and Blake was allowed to participate but not too thrilled w/it. He was pretty tired after getting up early and not taking a nap but the thought of shooting a basketball and *gasp* missing the basket mortified him. I told him it was ok to try and miss and that all of the other kids were having fun even though they missed sometimes. He wasn't buying it and looked like this most of the time.


After class, we went back to their house and ordered pizza for dinner and played w/the babies while Blake and Mia disappeared and played for hours and hours. Despite being tired, Blake didn't collapse until around midnight.

The next morning, we woke up and got ourselves packed and ready to go around noon. Bob had gotten the TV fixed (thank you, Bob!) so Blake had something to watch to kill time on the 5 1/2 hour drive back. We got home at 5:45 and were so glad to be in our beds again. We had so much fun and it was the easiest, most laid back roadtrip I've ever been on.

Our next roadtrip will be the week of Thanksgiving where we go up to Kansas City and take our time doing so. Loving the laid back schedules - much more fun!