Our Road Trip to Bloomington

We just returned from a great weekend in Bloomington celebrating Alissa's birthday. One of the hightlights was seeing the beautiful moon, almost full. Courtney and Paul told Tiz to look at the moon each night and to know that they would be looking at the same moon in Ethiopia and thinking of her. We looked at the moon and thought about mama and papa tonight. Now getting back to our trip. We left on Saturday morning. Of course, we had to stop at Rochelle. We always stopped at Rochelle on our way to college visits and we couldn't go to Bloomington without stopping. Tizita picked out a Barbie doll and a few other goodies. Marge said we could shop there for hours.

We had our lunch at Wendy's. Both Marge and I agree that the new pickles they use are not very good. We prefer the dills.

Here Tizita is helping Grandpa move the luggage into our rooms. We stayed at the Fairfield in adjoining rooms and we could not be happier with the accomodations. We will return.

Tizita and Grandpa went swimming right away. Tiz has really become a great swimmer and both of them had fun. Alissa and Nathan arrived at the motel and we started the party.

Here is Tizita with the birthday girl. We celebrated with cake and presents in our room.

After the party at the motel, we headed over to Alissa and Nathan's to visit with Darrel, the poodles, and to see their new living arrangements.

Tizita decided that she really enjoyed the poodles, especially Webster and she asked to return again on Sunday before we left.

After visiting the Hunter home, we all went out to eat at a nice restaurant which used to the airport. Then Alissa and Nathan returned to our motel for a few beers.

Nathan put Tiz to bed. It was a great day. I will write more in the next post about Sunday, more poodle time, wii dancing, and our trip home.