A few weeks ago we took a trip to Michigan to visit my mom's side of the family. We left Wed night at Isabella's bedtime, so we could get some of the drive out of the way while she was sleeping. She slept, but was wide awake and smiling when we got to our hotel in Chicago. Luckily, we got her back to sleep with out much of an issue and she slept ok in her pack and play that night.
Funny pic of Isabella in the hotel room
Thurs morning we met Pa (Jeff's Grandpa) at Gabe's for breakfast. As usual, we had delicious omelettes. It was great to see Pa as we don't get to Chicago as much as we'd like to.
We made it the rest of the way to Michigan on Thurs (it was only about 4 more hours). We stopped at a playground to let Isabella play and grabbed some lunch. We got to Great-Grandma's (GG) house in the afternoon. Grandma was already there from Florida as well. That night we went to an ice cream social. Isabella did the fishing pond with Grandma.
On Friday, I got up and went for a jog and had a run in with a dog. He threw himself into my legs and I went down hard on the gravel. Just a little "road rash" and luckily he didn't bite me, even though he was growling at me. Megan and Ryan (my cousin's Tom's children) came over in the morning and Isabella loved playing with them. She'd let Megan do just about anything to her, pick her up and everything!
In the afternoon, we went over to Tom and Sue's for a little swimming in their inflatable waterslide. Isabella actually had a blast, although she does look terrified most the time.
Friday night we went over to Uncle Jim's for a cookout. The kids went swimming and Isabella had fun watching and running around. Lots of water out there though, so we had to make sure we were constantly, constantly watching her.
On Sat, we went to Ann Arbor to a petting zoo at Domino farms. Isabella had fun looking at all the animals. The highlight was taking a hayride through and stopping by a bunch of cows. As soon as we stopped, the cows came running at us and we were able to feed them. I was surprised that it seemed like Isabella actually wanted to feed them.
That night Jeff fell into the window well in the sunporch when he was trying to spy on me putting Isabella to bed. It scared the crap out of me. He broke his phone. I fell in a window well there when I was two, so now we have that in common.
Sunday was the Mann family reunion. I think there were around 50 relatives there and it was nice to see everyone. Isabella screamed when she rode in the barrel train, so I barely got a picture of that.
My cousin Jeff's son, Jacob, gave us a couple of golf cart rides. He only just turned 6, so he can barely reach the pedals, but he's a pretty good driver. Still, it was a bit like being on a thrill ride being on the back of that thing.
On Monday, we headed back home. We made the whole trip in one shot.
All of our pictures can be viewed here: Michigan July 2009
No comments:
Post a Comment