Today's blog is from Alan. Jill may change her password after this...
Once upon a time in March, Jill goes on a trip...
to see friends in St. Louis...
Leaving behind four great boys...
and a dad...
who apparently didn't know where his phone was during a nap.
Even without mom for a whole week, they all seemed to manage...well manage to PARTY!!!
And do other fun stuff like legos...
and lots of games...
And as you can tell, dad managed to keep them mostly dressed, fed, and tried to limit the use of the pocketknife to prevent this from happening...
The boys played with new friends in the park.
Apparently, miniature golf was full-contact for Joshua.
We went to a drive-in movie..
Fished in a nearby river...You should have seen the size of that...log...
And took full advantage of the rain, mud, and laundry.
One day we took a trip to nearby Savannah, GA. We started the day at the Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum. Silly dad thought it opened an hour earlier than it did...so we had quite a time playing tag and hide-and-go-seek in the gardens.
I'll be like Jill here and give a little history. This museum is in the
William Scarbrough House built in 1819. President James Monroe stayed
here when he came to witness the launch of the S. S. Savannah on the
world's first trans-atlantic steamship voyage. It was a really neat
house and garden
...but inside...
It had hundreds of intricately detailed models of real ships. The boys loved the ones in bottles...they each picked a favorite. (For now...take note of Joshua's blue hoodie in all the pictures...)
This is a mockup of a steamship bridge.
I don't know where or who started it, but everytime we see a statue of some sort, we have to do a picture either mocking it...
Or copying it...
Can you tell these are actually from old ships?
There were many scale-models of very famous, historical ships.
Yes, they were scaled from the original...but they were huge and so very realistic.
We even ran across a few familiar looking ghosts hanging around these ships...can you spot them?
After lunch we went to the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force.
B17 Flying Fortress, B47 Stratojet, a MiG, F4 Phantom...just to name a few...plus a whole lot of history. A super museum!
Outside there was a Memorial Garden with monuments to those who served in the wars. There is also an amazing Chapel to the Fallen Eagles. It was a very solemn place to consider those who died for our country. I say solemn...but here you see Micah and Nate running to the chapel...oh well.
Our final stop of the day was a railroad museum. We were pretty pooped...so we just looked at it through the fence.
We had a great day. We were so impressed that we made a donation to the Mighty Eighth Museum. Remember Joshua's blue hoodie? Notice it went missing? Yep, you guessed it, it is somewhere in the big museum. A couple days later, I had to go back through the pictures to find when and where it went missing...so we just considered it a donation...I'm sure the museum wasn't as appreciative.
All-in-all it was a good week. Everyone survived...including Nate...but the ketchup didn't fare as well (see knife picture at top).
I'm not sure what the boys will remember, but I know I'll always remember moments like this one...
One of the boys had the idea that I needed someone to take mom's place in my bed...so they all took turns. I'll trade that loss of comfortable sleep for those smiles anyday!
Needless to say, there was great rejoicing when we picked up mom at the airport. I was worn out! It took me over six months to recover enough to write this all down
...and guess what...
tonight is the start of another boys weekend without mom.
Woo-Hoo
...YAWN...
Blessing to you and yours from the substitute blogger...Alan
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