(20) Ali’s Aunt Joyce held a open house kind of gathering for all of the relatives to come in and out of. Since there were a lot of people to see it was nice to just have the whole day for people to trickle in. We spent the day enjoying the kids and their shows they loved to put on and caught up on what was going on in everyone’s life. It was great both meeting people and seeing how much the kids have grown up. We appreciated having a solid day of sleeping in, no travel and friendly folks. We didn’t once leave the house except to later cross the yard to hang out with the cousins and play a couple intense games of Wii Mario and the card game Nerts (where we created awesome team names and Rachael’s team always had a cool handshake). Then, off the sleep.
(21) Halee took us out to coffee that morning where we just hung out and talked for a good two hours. After that it was about lunch time, so we went back to their house, picked up Andrew and headed out to the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri (another state to add to the list!) We ate some great BBQ and walked into some random stores, a lot of the time to escape the humidity :) It was a slow pace day and everyone was very low key and so we felt very welcomed and relaxed. When we got back to Aunt Joyce’s we had some chill time where we did laundry and caught up with Aunt Joyce around the dinner table. It was dark by that time and at one point Rachael yelled and Ali jumped as Jordan’s face appeared out of the darkness, pressed against the kitchen window. He and Liz came in as Aunt Joyce was heading off to bed and we got to have a good talk with them too around the table (that table tended to draw good conversations throughout the whole trip). We walked over with them to their house and saw that they had caught a raccoon which had been breaking into their sun room and eating their cat’s food. After admiring how cute it was and discussing how dangerous it was we said our goodbyes and went to sleep. It was a really nice bed :)
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