Overall, the entire Christmas holiday went well. We drove down to Ohio on the Friday afternoon/night prior to Christmas. We waited and picked Maranda up at school and headed down late in the afternoon and Chicago traffic wasn't bad at all this time. It was a pleasant surprise. We got to my mother-in-law's house about 2 am and promptly went to bed.
While we were there we got to see family and friends. I reconnected with a good friend that I probably haven't seen in person since 2000. It seems like we just never have time to get together when I'm there, but she's originally from Appleton, Wisconsin (just 20-30 minutes down the road from here) and I called her when we decided to move just to tell her I'd be near her hometown. We've decided that we need to get together more often now, since there's a greater chance that we'll be near each other either in Ohio or Wisconsin now.
Maranda and I went to see Charlotte's Web with a friend and her two daughters. It's a pretty good movie. I like that they keep the story pretty true to the book. They didn't make it "too Hollywood" like they do to some remakes.
Maranda and her cousins also got their portraits taken. They all loooooovvve that! (I'm being sarcastic...I hope you knew.) Chelsea, 17, is a junior in high school and hasn't been interested in these portraits for several years. Tara, 12, thinks the world revolves around her and mostly just upset that she didn't have permission to spend her week of vacation from school at some friend's house. It was pretty much all we heard about on both days we saw her. Kylee, 2, is just happy to be hanging out with the big kids it seems. We were lucky she didn't start crying for the photographer, though. Maranda would rather have been other places, but didn't gripe just to keep the peace. She knows better. :) So, now we're waiting to get the portraits back. Thankfully, we only do these portraits every few years.
On our way back to Wisconsin, we spent one night in Valparaiso, Indiana. We had tickets to see the King Tut exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago and I'm too cheap to pay for a hotel in Chicago. So, we stayed in Indiana and went to the exhibit the next day. I'll write about that in another post in the next day or two.
Our trip home from Chicago was uneventful, but I've noticed that the older the get, the more I appreciate coming home to my own shower, bed, couch, food, etc. I like traveling, but there's just something nice about returning home and being surrounded by all your own familiar, comfortable stuff.
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