Wednesday, April 25 - Trip to Philly...
It has been a while since I posted. We've been quite busy, and when we're not...going on the computer hasn't been my first choice of things to do!
We went to Philly for a long weekend a couple of weeks ago. We really had a great time. We went because my oldest niece, Kelly, from Florida was going to be there for a few days for work. With her being so close I could't resist the drive to visit with her! Also, her fiance, Daniel, was going to be there with her and we thought that'd be a lot of fun as well!
The down side of the trip is that we really didn't plan before we left. It's funny because we always plan when we go on vacations, but this time my main thought was to visit Kelly as much as we could and I really didn't care about anything else we did while she was working. We picked them up at the airport Friday afternoon and found our way to their hotel in the city. (We'd never been to Philly before) The traffic was incredible! What could've been a 20 minute ride was at least 45 minutes due to traffic! We ended up doing a lot of driving to find things that were difficult to find in the city! 
We often spend lots of time in the car for some reason when we are with Kelly and/or her sister Becca. I guess we just like those great conversations that happen then! On Saturday Kelly had to work so we spent the day with Daniel. That poor guy, having to deal with us who were so indecisive and probably quite boring for him! He was a trooper sticking with us! He seems to be a great guy. I hope he realized how blessed he is to have Kelly to spend his life with. She is so awesome. She is a wonderful young woman. I wish we all lived closer together. Yes, We dream of moving south, but I don't know if it will ever happen. Two of three kids would love to go, hubby would love to go...but can I leave my roots????
We went to find a Friendly's for dinner on Saturday. That was quite a hoot!! I can't go into it all or this would be WAY long, but in short version...we searched and searched and searched and searched for a Friendly's that wasn't even really there!!! We had a scene from the movies with a bunch of quads! We're going down a main street and all of a sudden at least fifteen quads come up from behind us. They were driving in the street, doing wheelies, going on the sidewalk, just down right kind of nerve-racking for us. It was loud and the way they looked at us was kind of scary. Here we were, the obviously naive out-of-towners that looked rather innocent....and a gang-looking bunch of guys on quads in the street in the not so great part of the city driving rather erratically. Boy, were we glad when they disappeared! Now its funny to look back on it, but then, not so funny.
On the way home we tried to stop at an IKEA in New Jersey at exit 13A of the Tpke. I had some good laughs with trying to find our way there, but, my husband...well, thats a different story!!! We get off the exit and get in the lane that the arrow tells us to, then at the last minute, we notice the arrow has changed lanes, but now its too late! We had to go WAY around, through tolls, and back again!! My husband, several times on the trip, made the comment "Theres Ben, there Parliament" from the movie European Vacation w/Chevy Chase. The problem was my husband said it with great frustration and I was trying my best not to laugh out loud. Then the kids questions of, "Are we going to IKEA? Are we almost there yet? I thought it was right out the window a minute ago" and so on, just made it worse for him and harder for me not to laugh! Along with all the rain...that was the weekend that the east coast started their major rainfalls and flooding, made the entire trip home even worse! Roads and ramps closed here and there all the way home. It was too much. What should be a 4 hr ride was over 8 to get home! The kids were more than happy to be home when we got here!
All in all, it was worth every bit of it just to spend that little time with Kelly and Daniel. We hadn't seen them in over 18 months, maybe closer to 2yrs, and it was great to see them!
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Saturday, April 28 - Sounds like quite a trip!
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I noticed you just started blogging this month so welcome to Homeschoolblogger - I hope you find it to be a blessing. :-)
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