We're Back!!

We are finally back home in good ol' Galesburg, Illinois.  We left Boston on Tuesday and took our time just enjoying the scenery and Children's Museums along the way.  I took over 500 hundred pictures, so I am trying to narrow down what I will actually post.  I didn't want to bore anyone with one of those horrific "Our Family Vacation" slideshows with tacky music - you know the one's I'm talking about, you'd go to one of your parent's friends house for dinner and sit and watch a thousand pictures of people you hardly knew.  Anyway, I thought I'd spare you the pain.

Glen and I only have one regret from our entire trip...yesterday...we had the bright idea of going to a waterpark with the kids as a last hoo-haa before we arrived home.  It was an overcast day and pretty chilly, but the kids were stoked about it so we decided to go.  By the time we left, he and I were rock lobster red.  We spent a whole week at the beach and didn't get any degree of burn, but take us to a concrete slab and now you could fry an egg on us.  The kids were spared of any cancerous, careless, fire-hot broiling, but Glen and I were idiots.  We are so mad at ourselves and completely embarrassed.  We kept calling ourselves idiots while we spread the aloe-vera all over.  At one point, I started to blame him, saying I wanted to leave earlier, but all he could do was laugh at me, because I have raccoon eyes.  (Side note - my girlfriend Melodie is always on my case about not wearing sunglasses, so I've been wearing them more and apparently they worked.)  We got into such a giggling frenzy that my skin was hurting from the laughing.  We were quite a sight.

Other than that we had an absolutely wonderful time with my parents and having special family time.  If you get the opportunity to spend quality time with your parents, husband and kids this summer, do it.  It is priceless.