Vacation!!

Okay I am finally getting a chance to tell you about my vacation. It was a lot of fun! I flew out on Sunday the 2nd with my grandma. After a long day of traveling we FINALLY got to Ashley's parents house. We ate dinner and had fun chatting with the cousins, jumping on the trampoline, and just hanign out. On Monday we went to the church history sites that are in the area: Liberty Jail, Far West, Independance Visitors Center, and Adam-ondi-Ahman. It was a fun day! On Tuesday a bunch of us got dressed up and went window shopping at the Plaza in downtown Kansas City. We didn't buy anything, but had a fun time looking at the different stores. That night we had a BBQ, family baseball game, horseriding, volleyball game..... and lots of fireworks. We watched the city fireworks and then put on a fireworks show of our own. On Wed we went to the lake a played on pontoon boats. Everyone that had a drivers license had the opportunity to drive the boat! We went swimming off the boats, had a picnic and played card games. That night we went to a Kansas City Royals baseball game. The Royals won and we all had a fun time at the game. That night Ashley, Tim, Natalie and I left to go to their house in Indiana. It is a 8 hour trip from KC to Indianapolis. I stayed up the first 4 hours of the trip while Tim drove and then stayed up the last 4 hours of the trip while Ashley drove! I KNOW that I am now too old to pull all-nighters. I was so tired by the end of the trip! Since we got hom around 8am on Thursday morning, Ash and I just took naps and lazed around while Tim was at work that day. On Friday Ash and Natalie and I went on a walk around the canal in downtown Indianapolis and went shopping while Tim was at work. Then after he got off we went to the Indy 500 Speedway Museum. It was really interesting to learn about the history of racing and see how the cars had changed throughout the years. That night we went to the drive in and saw "Cars" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", it was fun to go to the movies, but I did sleep through most of them because I was still so tired! Saturday we went to the Children's Museum in Indianapolis. It was so much fun and I could have spent many, many more DAYS there. We saw blown-glass by Chihuly, we explored Sesame Street, learned about dinosaurs, saw miniture houses, and learned about sea life. We also rode the carosel and just have a great time! Saturday night while we were playing games at Tim and Ash's house, Natalie giggled for the first time! It was so cute!
So that was my vacation, it was a lot of fun and a much needed break from work! I hope you enjoy these pictures...

(P.S. Some of the pictures are sort of random and I didn't know which pictures I was attaching, but that's okay!)