Friday after I picked up Baylor we filled the van up and our bellies and headed south down 15 to Leesburg, VA. The Garmin gave us an ETA of 7:06, which is always to me the time to beat if I can. We were not six miles into the trip and we hit the lights in Dillsburg and lost eight minutes already.
Baylor watched a movie in the back seat under the cover of a blanket so it was a quiet drive down, just me, NPR, and the sky. Finally some sky after two weeks of rain.
I love this bridge because not only is it a pretty color, it is really close to our destination!
We arrived just on time, we made it almost on the time from when we started. It was out first visit to the new house so we had a grand tour right off, bottom to top. It is lovely and just as easy to get to as her father's house! The evening was a nice quite evening chatting and catching up after the boys went to bed. We even started in on the pimento queso dip I brought. Baylor started out under Lucas' bed but ended up in the spare room waiting for me to arrive. He was out while I brushed my teeth, across the top of the bed all over the pillows. Thankfully he is easy to rearrange and we both slept in. I never even heard Julie leaving early for the airport for her trip to Buffalo for the weekend with some girl friends. Tara and sat talking for most of the morning but then we decided to set up her stuff she had aside to join in the neighborhood yard sale going on. It was a lovely, but chilly morning. The boys occupied themselves pretty well. Mr. Lucas is very into construction and worked very diligently on repairing a backhoe that was missing its hoe. After we closed down shop, she made about $30.00, we took a walk around to hit a few other sales. Baylor found a Mega Piranha movie marked down to $.50 and I found some free glassware in the free box. At another sale he was interested in a zombie-strike Nerf gun that kept jamming so the boy sold it for $1.00 instead of $2.00. Two good deals for him. I bought a tall narrow dresser for $5.00 and while we were driving around I bought a small nightstand for $5.00. Not sure where the night stand will go or the dresser really but they were such good deals!
We had a quick pizza and chicken nugget lunch and then headed to the Lego show at one of the local high schools. It was different from the show in April and a lot more expensive than the Lego vendor at the flea market. But he enjoyed it and since we had some Meme money, he was able to pick out a few characters that caught his eye. The set ups were very impressive but they were charging $8.00 for the mini-figs that come in the series packets that are $4.00 in every store you find them in.
It is always a good idea to have your photo done with two bucket heads and a Jawa, while wearing your sunglasses.
The center tables had people showing their different collections of various Lego sets or just this and that.
This army set up caught his eye and he asked me to send a photo of it to Landon, who asked his dad if they could come to the show! There was another room that had more set and vendors but the center tables were one giant connected machine made up of many smaller machines all moving marbles around. It was amazing.
The least expensive mini-figs were a build your own from bins with legs, bodies, heads/hair/hats, and accessories.
Trying to steer him away from the $35.00 mini-fig by explaining we can buy 16 mini-figs at the flea market for the same amount of money.
After making his selections we headed to the free play area with many pools of Legos and Duplos. Tara and I sat talking while the boys played on the cafeteria floor.
Stormtroppers have to eat too.
His orange rock monster.
Yellow Jacket or Hornet, I cannot remember.
His DIY man with cowboy pants, a mummy body, a skeleton head with black hair and a scorpion.
And some funny faces.
We went to Kobe for some Japanese teppanyaki. On the way we saw a rainbow and I think we see a rainbow every time we are with them or at least on the way home or back from their home. That is a sure thing for Baylor although Lucas was a bit unsure about the fire, until there was fire and he wanted more.
And we had a lot of fire! Firey flattop.
Firey rice
Yummy fried rice
Firey onion
And a soy sauce onion volcano, something new and fun.
Baylor was game to try catching the shrimp being thrown towards his mouth. After about 5 tires, he caught one, and actually ate it. Tara caught one too, for the first time, and my phone flaked out and I missed it!
Shrimp all over the floor! But a great memory!
And more silly faces, because we are silly.
Back at the house he just crashed with me on the couch while I talked to Tara, adult time, which is nice because it does not happen very often.
We had a quite Sunday morning, drinking coffee, talking, eating. Julie came home early in the morning as she was able to catch an earlier flight. We heading home about 2 and made it home around 4:00. It was another beautiful day with me and NPR.
And Baylor asleep in the back. He had his blanket tent and ended up falling asleep for most of the drive.
While I love visiting my friends, my people, Baylor is always happy to get home. When he woke up in the driveway he told the house he was so happy to see it he might kiss the driveway. Now, to find a place for the new furniture....
