Road Trip #1: Visit to Abbie & Kevin's House

I was invited by Stacey to go to her board buddies house for the weekend. I had no idea what to expect except for the directions and the schedule in my hand. Stacey was ready and we stopped to get a pop for the drive. 2 1/2 hours later we arrived at Kevin and Abbie's house. We were greeted by Gizmo and Gadget (the dogs) as well as Abbie. I got to meet Nicholas (Abbie and Kevin's 18 month old son) and take the tour of the house. Stacey got the upstairs bedroom and I took the guest room in the basement. It was blue and had a cool wall decoration.

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Friday night Kevin grilled some hamburgers that were very good. After dinner, we took a walk with Nicholas and the dogs. Gadget liked to be in the lead and was always in a hurry. My arm was a tad sore from him. After the walk, little Nicholas headed to bed. Once the little man was asleep, Abbie and Kevin taught Stacey and me a new card game called "Hand and Foot". This game has lots of rules but is SO fun! Kevin and Stacey say they dominated but in the third game, we caught up and only lost by 15 points (which is a big deal since the total scores were in the 30,000!!!!) WE played till almost 1 in the morning.

On Saturday, we slept in till 8:30ish. We went for a morning walk and Nicholas wasn't too happy about that. We had sandwiches for lunch and while Nicholas was taking a nap, the girls went shopping. And when I say shopping, I mean we ran to Micheal's and Target. After the shopping trip and when Nicholas awoke from his nap, we went down town to the science center. We played with Nicholas for a while and then Stacey and I took off to explore. We saw snakes, did the weather, looked at the stars, moons and went to the IMAX movie where we meet Abbie. It was a great movie about elephants and chimpanzees. Nicholas loves the escalator!

After the science center, we went to Raccoon River Brewery for dinner. The food there was GREAT! Nicholas got in trouble several times :( It just wasn't his day. After dinner, we went back and played cards some more. We called it a night around 11:45ish.

Sunday was a great day. We went to church and after church we went to eat at The Iowa Machince shed. It was a great brunch and Stacey and I were full for the whole way back! I really enjoy meeting Abbie, Kevin and Nicholas. That weekend was a weekend I will never forget. I can't wait to see all of them again here at Graduation.