The Tubbs Tribune: Grammy's Visit

(Pictures are below, all out of order!!)

So after we drove home from visiting with Kelly and her family we stopped at Kirtland...which has already been posted...and we got home at 10pm. We laid the kids down for bed, cleaned out the van and got a little shut eye ourselves. We woke up first thing Sunday morning, cleaned everyone up, made beds and jumped back in the car and drove 2 hours West to a little town S of Indianapolis to meet Grammy, Dave, Grandpa Yocum, Joyce and more of the Yocum clan. It was Grandpa Yocum birthday and his family wanted to do a bit of family reunion. So we got to meet Lori's (AKA Grammy...Travis' Mom) brothers Steve and Lester and bunch of other people I don't remember. After the food and festivities we said goodbye and kidnapped...or Grammy-napped Lori and took off for home. We had a wonderful visit full of adventure and surprise.

We went to the Air Force museum. Trouble got to go on the simulator, which wasn't as exciting as we wanted it to be. I first dragged Lori to the every end that has to do with Travis' missile job and we worked our way to the front. We even stopped by the Space Hall of Fame.

We got to experience the "Tattoo". WPAFB does a festival complete with music, an airshow, vendors, and fireworks. We first hit up the free hot dogs our housing provided then went into the actual festival. It was crowed and hot. So we checked out the tent with the vendors and information booths, walked to the end, listened to some music and walked home. From the hill behind our house we could see some of the air show and we were okay with that. Our new neighbors come over and said hi. We ended up watching the awesome fireworks display with them and retiring for the night. On neat thing was that before the airshow started we saw an airplane drop 2 somethings from the sky. It was like giant crepe paper. Travis and Lori chased them down. We were later informed that it was to test the wind. Fancy!!

We also got a chance to go to Cesar Creek Lake. We had got the pool earlier in the week and ran in to our neighbor who told up about a place to look for fossils. So we headed that way and went looking for fossils. We found mostly shells and tubular coral. As we drove around we saw a beach. Even though we had no towels, swim suits or other clean clothes we went swimming. It was refreshing and warm. And yes, with is a typical outing with anyone in Travis' family. You'd think I'd be more prepared after all these year to expect the unexpected.

We went to the traditional trip to Young's Dairy for Ice Cream.

Baby showers are always fun, so Lori went with me to the one for Laura and Emma. Of course Lori is always very friendly and chatted more than I did :-)

I have a favorite park here called Orchardly Park. So we took Grammy out to see it. She is in the process of convincing her Homeowners Association board to do the same to an area where she lives. So she got lots of good ideas. Kids had a blast as usual.

We spent one day at the Boonshoft Children's Museum. Another favorite with us. There is so much to do and see. This time we was an anaconda shed its skin, Dynomite wear a stethoscope wrong while nursing animals back to health, and learn all about dragons. There is one room in the Boonshoft that changes its displays periodically. We got kick out of what what displayed about dragons, like how the can breath fire, dragon Internet dating, and what makes them good or bad.

So all in all we had a wonderful time! We can't wait for her next visit!!