We decided that our lives just weren't crazy busy enough yet so we went running around and went and saw and did some things...an understatement I assure you.
On the 5th we went to the ER suddenly to help Vanessa out. Max took Kaitlyn, Anthony, and Lowell out the waiting room and kept them busy and happy while I was back in the room with Vanessa. She's been having issues ever since she had her gallbladder removed and some days are just a lot worse than others. The 5th was one of the worse days. By the time we got out of the ER (they kept her there extra long because of wanting something...and they didn't want to send her home w/ the kit...) it was already past noon. We ended up running down the street grabbing our lunch and running home to check and see if hopefully the mail was there by then. We were so lucky and it had just been delivered not even 2 minutes earlier so we grabbed our mail, ran to the credit union, cashed the check, ran and got gas, and got on the freeway as fast as we could.
Where were we going? Well, we went to Freedom, WY pretty much as fast as we could to pick up Jolene. We weren't in time but I just don't know what else to tell you about that. Then after a quick bathroom break and getting Jolene in the car we ran to Jackson Hole, WY. Why were we going to Jackson Hole? Well honestly it was to see a movie. We were going to see if we could leave Lowell with Jodi or someone else to watch him while we went but we couldn't get ahold of anyone and so we ended up just taking him with us. Stan & Jolene were wanting to see Cowboys & Aliens and so was Max kind of. I saw a preview for it and in the preview it didn't look scary or anything at all like that. Man was I wrong.
We got to Jackson Hole and had dinner cause we had missed the early showing. Which meant that even though I had a bad feeling about going to Cowboys & Aliens there was now no chance of me bowing out and doing something else really. The Smurfs had been showing at the earlier time but we missed it. So after a disappointing lunch (we went to a steakhouse and due to the prices being out of sight I didn't get steak =( I love beef) we found out that we still had a bit of time to kill and so we went to the park to let Lowell run around and see if he could burn off some energy because for the past three hours he had pretty much been totally cooped up in a car riding around. That was almost the highlight of the whole day.
We got to the theater and we were watching the movie (yes against my better judgement I went into the movie) I had a feeling a SUPER scary part was about to occur this is after almost getting up not even 10 minutes earlier to leave cause I was just so terrified, I got up and made sure to take Lowell with me and we went to the bathroom. When I returned there was yet another scary scene on the screen and I went up behind Max and told him that I had reached my scare limit and that I was done, Lowell decided that he would rather go with me and sit out in the car rather than sit there in the scary movie.
After playing cards and letting Lowell go bowling on the tablet the movie finally let out and we got in our vehicles and drove back to Freedom. Why did we go back to Freedom? I guess it was because Max wanted to get some suits, and for another bathroom break. Then finally at 10:30 PM we finally left Freedom to come back home.
We drove back from Freedom and while on the road we saw a few skunks, something with red eyes, several cows, a deer, and I think it was a jack rabbit (it was just a brown blur). We stopped in Soda Springs for 1 last bathroom break before just setting out for home without any more stops and we decided a snack would be a good thing because well it just sounded good. While we were checking out I asked the guy what time they close and he said midnight then I turned and asked Max what time it was and he said it was basically midnight right then. So the guy running the store followed us to the door and after it had closed behind us he locked it and went back in and turned out the lights.
We finally made it home at 1 AM and when we came in and turned on the lights I called out "here kitty kitty" and Jack came out of the bedroom with a sleepy look of "what? you actually came back tonight? wow." So we finally managed to get to bed and everything.
Then the morning came and started the funness of the 6th.
So we got up on the 6th and got some breakfast. Then we went to the storage unit to FINALLY get the camping gear out of our trunk. It had only been there for 2 weeks (bet that really helped our gas mileage).
Then we ran to the Heinz Company Picnic. Oh the fun and joy. We found out that some people stuff the door prize box because there was one name that was drawn out twice (only way we could think of that it could happen is if someone was putting extra entries in).
As part of the picnic Heinz pays for the employees and their families to either go swimming or they can go to the Ross Park Zoo. This year we decided to go to the zoo. It wasn't too bad but we felt sorry for quite a few of the animals because it was a darn hot day and they didn't have much shade. We did quite a bit of walking that day and I made sure to wear my shape-ups for the whole walk.
After the zoo we came home and crashed cause we were super tired by then! Thus ended the 6th :)
