Trip to Evansville

We drove down to Evansville in July for a visit. The kids had a great time playing with all of the Jacksons. Becca was in heaven because there were kids there who would play pretend games with her for hours (this is not my favorite kind of play. I get tired after a few minutes of these games where I have to make ponies talk or pretend to find a lost cat [Becca] and take it home, etc... but she is all about this kind of play right now.)

We also went to the Children's Museum (thank you, Brigid, for being my helper there!). We loved this last year, and this year it was just as much fun: 

We stayed in a hotel that had a pool, which the kids loved (isn't that most kids favorite part of any vacation?) Here's Samuel doing a cannonball into the water:

Our hotel (Hampton Inn) had a really nice breakfast each morning. Since I have such early risers (and because of the time zones we were an hour behind our normal Fort Wayne time), we were up and dressed and down for breakfast each day when they opened. At 6:30. One morning we had enough time to eat breakfast, go buy a birthday present at the store, buy donuts for everyone, and be at the Jackson house by 8:30 am. Sleep? Who needs it? Apparently not my kids. 

On our way home, we normally stop at a Dairy Queen for ice cream: 

I liked this sign on the door (in case you can't read it, it says "Dairy Queen bans all frowns and sour moods on these premises.") I'm thinking about putting one of these signs on our front door to our house.

We had a great time on our trip to Evansville!