Whirlwind Tour, or We're Not In Kansas Anymore

The last few weeks have been interesting, but we've been able to see a lot of people we had to wave goodbye to when we left VB a little over a year ago. First up, Joe and Erika were here as a stopover as Joe moved to take up a new job.

We got the excuse to do a few things that we haven't done yet because we had company in town, including going to a large local farmer's market and also up in the Arch. To wit:



After some airline shenanigans, Erika did get a flight out after helping to get Joe ready for the second leg of his trip, though we all did like the Arch-visiting and fondue-eating part more than the packing part, I'm sure.

After a little car-loading Tetris, we determined that if we packed lightly for ourselves, we could just barely fit me and the B in the minivan as well, so we could make the trip and visit Dr. H, CK, and LWC. CK and LWC very graciously put us up (no mean feat when one of us is only one year old and chewing on everything she can get her little hands on. As you can see, she learned a lot about how to kick back while we were out West.



We had just a little time to spend there, as the mister needed to get back in time to go on a trip for work, so we savored those bare hours as much as possible before we started the trek back, also known as "When the hell will we be out of freaking Kansas?"

The B was a little trooper in the car, though admittedly the trip back was much pleasanter with an almost-empty van and plenty of room for me to sit in the second row with her and entertain her with various silly toys. We were glad to get home again, if only to get back into some sort of routine, but the B and I are both uncommonly sad to be here on our own for a bit until the mister returns from his work trip. We'll get through, though, and it will be a little strange to have everything back to normal again.