We made it back to Mississippi tonight around 9 pm. It was a L-O-N-G day. It took about 3 hours to get out of the condo this morning. 4 kids plus a big kid (Chris) takes lots of packing and cleaning up after. Chris took charge of loading the car, I took charge of cleaning the condo & searching every nook and cranny for matchbox cars, long lost underwear or anything else that would be stuck somewhere and missed once we made it home.
We arrived at the USS Alabama around 1 pm and stayed until 6! It was a long stay but there is so much to take in there. I'm sure you can imagine how Hayden reacted to everything. Everything was "cool" and "awesome!" Get him going about fishing, military, hunting - anything of that nature, and you've got a 2 hour conversation on your hands! He loved it all! Soaked in all the information his little mind could take. Had on the other hand....I was worried about her. Last time we visited she was one and in a stroller. Here we are two years later - still she seemed a bit small to handle all of the steep stairs located in the ship. Well - worry not - it didn't slow her down one bit. In fact, she didn't even want daddy, or "da" as my kids call Chris, to hold her hand. She can keep up w/the best of them. She is such a funny soul. Hali & Katie seemed to enjoy it as well as teenagers could. Some things were cool, some things were boring. But all in all everyone had a great time. And big kid too of course! I don't know how many times Chris has been there - but it never gets old to him. This is a man who could watch history channel 24/7 if he could find another way to pay the bills...
I enjoyed reading about war bonds and food rations. If seems odd how is seems that anything and everything goes these days - yet once there was such control....
Anyway - it is great to be home...ok - maybe not great - we will miss the beach - but we are home and home is great sooooo safe and sound and back into the groove. In store for this week: swim meet Monday, swim team practice M-F, swim lessons T-F, sales meeting Tues, meet w/CPA on Wed, Hali will be at Grace Baptist VBS all this week w/a friend, Chris & I both have VBS meetings tomorrow, oh yeah - and I guess he'll have to go back to work...... see - didn't take long to jump back into full swing. Well - I guess I'll go - Chris is snoring - he just finished studying his Sunday School lesson for the morning. Here it is midnight again. I'll post more pics from the trip later this weekend I hope!
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