Busy weekend!

Friday evening we drove to Carlisle to visit with Rachel, Nathan, and Orion. We had a nice evening of visiting with them and the other Lambeses. They are always so welcoming!

Saturday, Larry fixed us all breakfast (except Nathan ‘cause he actually was able to “sleep-in” for awhile. He starts his week days at 6:00 A.M.) We just relaxed all morning and went out for lunch.

We went to Bravo! again and, as always, the food was excellent! Here are some fuzzy mobile phone photos of Orion having his lunch and acting silly, which is something he excels at! (Click on photos to enlarge them.)

What a goof-ball! So much fun! He also enjoyed eating bits of bread but I didn’t take pictures because I was busy stuffing my own gob!

When we were done eating, we went shopping and had fun spending time together.

Our day ended quickly and it was 6:00 P.M. before we knew it. Robin invited us for dinner but we wanted to hit the road so we would have time to relax once we got home.

Well… 7 miles south of Wapakoneta, traffic STOPPED! Both lanes of traffic on the North bound side of I 75 just stopped dead. Periodically we would move a few feet. Of course we figured it was some sort of accident ahead but we didn’t know for sure and didn’t know where it was. Many vehicles were cutting through the median strip and merging into South bound traffic (which was going a minimum of 70 mph and of course they were merging from “stop” into the “fast” lane of traffic!) After 1 1/2 hours stuck in stop and go traffic, (mostly stopped) we finally reached the exit for Wapakoneta. We had to merge into the right hand lane and were diverted onto the shoulder to get around all the emergency vehicles. It appeared they were doing road construction but there were fire trucks and police cars there. We hadn’t eaten dinner yet so at 9:00 we pulled into the Arbys and ordered our food. The workers there said the reason for being stuck in traffic was a semi-truck had flipped onto it’s side! It took a long time to get it cleared away and of course by that time there were miles of vehicles backed up on the highway! We finally got home at 10:40 P.M.

We should have stayed for dinner! (it would have been way better than Arby’s food too. Robin made lasagna!)

Sunday, we went to church and then on to our Great-Niece’s first birthday! So cute and so much fun. Todd and Stacy have a very nice, older home in Archbold. The weather was perfect and the party was in their garage and yard. We had a really nice time. Callie just turned 1 year old. So cute.

This is Callie smiling at the soft baby doll we got her. The doll giggles when you press it’s tummy. She loved it!

After the party we drove to Mom’s to visit and see her new flooring. It looks great and Denny was able to fix a cabinet drawer for Mom while we were there.

We had a great weekend!