We saw them more when we were all children, but not very often as we got older. It's even more fun now as adults. Both Alicia and Rachel getting married in recent years gave us reason to go to California, but it was nice to see them all in Missouri for the first time since Drew and I got married. Rachel and Dan have the cutest little girl named Emma, who took to rural farm life really quickly.
First, they spent a day at our house. We did a tiny bit of horseback riding and went down to the river to skip rocks after lunch. We all had dinner in town before they hit the road back to Springfield. Pictures are in random, jumbled order.
We were able to have a little more time together the day before they flew back to California. The boys and I went to Springfield for the afternoon and we all went to "America's Only Ride Through Cave"...... Fantastic Caverns. I think they really enjoyed it. There are only 2 places on the planet that you can experience "absolute darkness", deep in a cave or at the bottom of the ocean. I never want to experience it via the latter.
After our cave tour, we had dinner at Lambert's. Too bad it was a school night or we would have gotten to hang out a little longer. I don't think the boys were ready to say goodbye.
Next time we see them, we'll be going to Disneyland!!
(I better clarify for when Drew reads this, there are no plans in the works, but theoretically, that would be a great trip to California for us to visit and mark Disney off the boys' list)
