- A VERY BUSY YESTERDAY & LAST NIGHT -

well, rebekah & her son micah came down yesterday morning to hang out with us & let the kids play until it was time to leave to go pick barbara & shnaider up at the airport - she was then taking shnaider back with her as she lives in ft. wayne & that's where his host family lives as well - we were to leave at 1pm & head to the airport, but ended up leaving about noon, as were going to stop at target to shop 'on the way' - while in target, we got a call from barbara that the shuttle didn't come on time to pick her up at the hotel & it caused her to miss her flight - she finally got on one & was taken to chicago, but wasn't going to get in a 2:25 which was the original time, but instead, she'd be in sometime around 9 - we opted to just take our time shopping (spike was THRILLED about me being gone, shopping, with our checkbook & with time to kill on my hands, i can tell you) - we ended up being there for about 1½ - 2 hours & then we received another call that it was going to be even later (like 10ish) - we were already so far from our house, that we opted to just continue on, so we went to TGIFridays for dinner - we slowly, slowly, slowly (our waitress helped tremendously with this 'slowly' thing) ate our dinner, drank our tea & ate our desserts (YUM!) - we then headed on to the airport a couple hours early & just watched people coming off the planes with all their tanned bodies, goofy looking 'island' clothing & the weird looking cowboy hats (that they thought looked EXTREMELY good!), etc. - we also watched micah (aka 'he man') as he tried to lift the security gates (hehe) - barbara finally arrived at after 11:30 & was plum tuckered out! - we got shnaider's pj's on & & we all left right away - barbara & i got home about 1am, due to us stopping by arbys for a sandwich - today we ended up not attending church as we got in so late (ie: early) & have just lounged all afternoon (ahhhhh) - i'll post more later!