Visiting with Family

Last night we ate dinner with my cousin Jasin and his wife Maria.  Sadly, I took no pictures - ack!  Silly me!  We had such a nice time, however - it was so good to see them!  


Today (Tuesday) Charley and I met my other cousin Jo, her daughter Amber, and Amber's daughter Alyssa (neither of which I'd previously met) at Funtastic, a kids' play center, and hung out for a couple of hours.  Charley had a blast, playing with the other kids and her new baby cousin!

Proud Grandma

Pretty girls

Need some help?

I love the baby!

After we left, we had lunch at Denny's.  Then Marjo met back up with us at the park, and we walked around for a while - C slept in her pack and the dogs got a walk.  It was a nice day!


We picked Rod up from work - his last day.  We drove as far as Reno, then settled into our old hotel for another night.  We managed to squeak in 2 nights of yummy Indian food on this trip - mmmmm - and a night of Thai - the ONLY place I've found that rivals our old standby Taste of Thai.  It was wonderful!  Now that we eat out so seldomly, it's truly a treat!


Wednesday was a truly leisurely day.  Slept in, and hit the road in time for C's first nap.  She slept to Winnamucca, where we stopped, had a Mexican lunch, and then hit the McDonald's playland for the first time ever to kill about 2 hours.  Oh, it's times like these I REALLY wish she could walk - disgusting!!!  Then for her second nap we went on to Elko.


Here's where things really went south...  two words.  COWBOY POETRY.  Ugh.  Never occurred to us we couldn't get a room in Elko!  And we passed Winnemucca and Battle Mountain, only to find out we then had to drive all the way to Wells to get a room - 50 miles EAST of Elko!  AAAAAAHHHHHH!  But, we had appointments in town Thursday (because I THOUGHT we could just stay in town!), and I knew C couldn't make it all the way home w/o a MAJOR meltdown, so we toughed it out.  Thursday - appointments, errands, and finally - home.  What a trip!