Ok, so it’s been a few days!
We left here on Thursday morning to go to my mom’s. She lives six hours away. Well, eight when we go through Atlanta at 4pm. Only 7 if we go up over the mountain and through part of North Carolina. IF we ever managed to go through Atlanta at an off-peak time (is there such a thing in Atlanta?) it would take six hours.
ANYWAY, we left about 11am Thursday to head over there, and after spending two hours crawling through Atlanta, we finally arrived at my mom’s about 7:30pm on Thursday. We pretty much just ‘hung out’ for a bit (watched several home movies) and then went to bed.
Friday, we got up and ate breakfast then cleaned up and Dad & Robby & Bob and Nate went to the dump while Mom & Me & Rachel and Tim went to the grocery. We only needed a couple of things, and we also picked up a cake frosted like a hamburger. It was so neat, and it was delicious 🙂
Angie & her kids came over to my mom’s for lunch Friday and spent the afternoon. Then, since Mom & Dad were going to a Shania Twain concert, we followed Angie back to her house and had dinner and hung out there until about 8:15pm. They left about 9:30pm to go to New York for vacation, so we thought we’d leave ’em some time to pack and whatnot. Ken gave me an armful of books that they aren’t using to bring home with me 🙂
We went back to my mom’s and watched Game Show Network on their big-screen TV for an hour until they got home. Dad, Robby, and the kids went to bed, while my mom and I stayed up looking up her auction finds on eBay. We only found one of the things was for sure worth anything, and it wasn’t as much as we’d hoped to find. Then we played a little “Zen Bones” (mah jongg on Hoyle games) trying to beat the “Submarine” layout. I’ve GOT to get that for my computer. We finally went to bed near 3am (eek!)
Saturday we got up and ate a light breakfast, then Dad went to get Jeffrey (my stepbrother). My other stepbrother Jonathan and his girlfriend also came over for lunch. Dad got 30 Hardees “Slammers” (tiny hamburgers) and brought them back and we doctored ’em up with lettuce and tomato and stuff. Plus we had spaghetti salad and pistachio stuff and storebought potato salad and a couple other things. Yum. Jonathan and his girl (Amy) had to leave after lunch, but Jeffrey hung out for a while. He and the kids played pool and stuff. They really enjoyed their Uncle Jeffrey.
After Dad took Jeffrey home, we sat down to watch a couple videos – first we watched Mike Snider (he is HILARIOUS!) and then put in an animal video. We all fell asleep during the animal video! We played some games, wandered around the house some, and generally just “hung out” until bedtime. We went to bed a bit early so we could get up early Sunday.
Sunday we got up and packed everything up while my mom packed up for them to go see HER mom, and then we all left at the same time. We decided NOT to come back through Atlanta, and came back a northern route instead. It was a very pretty drive and lots of neat things to see. We got back in the early evening and went to bed early because we were tired.
All in all, it was a very nice trip 🙂