Weekend in Illinois

After twelve hours of travelling.

Jordan and Brando, straight out of "Deliverance."

Jumping on the stairs. A great pasttime at our house.

Ooooh, cute. It's a baby mutant.

McDonald's playland with the great grandparents.

Rowen and grandma sleeping on the sheep.

Jordan shows off his amazing acrobatics.

Rowen, following in his dad's footsteps, makes so much noise in the

house that no one can think straight.

Posing for the next J. Crew catalog.

After-dinner wrestling matches.



We spent four, "food-and-fun filled" days in Illinois, sandwiched between marathon travel sessions from Oregon to Washington to Minnesota to Indianapolis and back.

Luckily, Rowen slept the majority of the plane rides and thank goodness for portable DVD players to entertain him for another couple hours.

In just four days, we had a birthday party for Rowen, a Thanksgiving turkey dinner, drove to Bloomington for lunch with the great-grandparents, toured the University of Illinois, cleaned the gutters and raked the yard, and had multiple wrestling matches, scavenger hunts and games of hide and seek with the nephews.

A nice surprise on the way home. We got up at 2:30 a.m. to drive to the Indianapolis airport, and on arriving a worker with a flashlight standing in the road to the terminal informed us the airport had moved...but he didn't know where to.

Apparently, they'd built a new one and we had no idea. So we drove back to the interstate and found the new airport at 5 a.m. on it's opening morning. No wonder it was so clean.