Out of Town

We went out of town over the weekend.  Want to guess where?  Let me give you some clues. This is the car right before we left.  We pretty much filled our entire Santa Fe.  This is a list of things we brought with us: a crib matress with bedding, a body pillow, a dog bed, dog food with dog food dish, Ginger, a jug of milk, a bottle of wine, pita chips, hummus, a waffle maker, waffle batter in a can, a jug of maple syrup, a stick of butter, a box of mac and cheese, cookie dough in a tub, a fan, veggie chips, 7 bags of clothes/shoes/books/toys/jackets/toiletries, strawberries, Pam cooking spray, a stroller, an umbrella, and Spencer.  (Paul the fish stayed home.)    

Have you figured it out?  Camping perhaps? A 7 day trip to a foreign country? 

Nah.  We just went to Brendan's house.  He does live in a different county afterall.  It's only natural to bring your entire house when traveling 22 miles to spend 1 night.

The plan was for us to come over for dinner and to spend the night since it is a whole 22 mile drive home. Turns out we bought some appetizers and he bought a lot of appetizers. 

Spencer was just delighted about the whole thing.

Ginger was pretty happy too.

Brendan was happy when we arrived and then was probably even happier when we left.

After we ate 5,000 calories worth of appetizers and Spencer ate dinner, we made a gingerbread train.  It wasn't working so well when Michael pointed out that despite him reading the directions 4 times to only do frosting half-way down, we had ignored him and done too much frosting.

It still worked in the end.

This is where the crib mattress came into play.  Spencer stayed here until 12:30 am.

Then he joined us in the sleigh bed.  When I woke up this morning Spencer's head was on Michael's chest and his feet were on my neck choking me.  Comfy.

Ginger enjoyed sleeping on her own bed,

and then moved to the couch after Spencer went to bed.

We enjoyed some spicy salmon after Spencer went to bed.

On Sunday morning I fired up the waffle maker that we drove with us to Pinal County.  I also found this batter in a can.  It was actually quite tasty.  I will be buying it again.  Guess where I bought it?  Fresh & Easy, of course.

Check these babies out.

There was a teeny tiny bit of batter left and I didn't want to waste it.  It made this outline of a waffle.  I let Ginger eat it.

Brendan was invited to a lunch on Sunday and we didn't have enough time to finish the train before he needed to leave.  We brought it home and finished at the kitchen table.

Spencer ate about 1/3 of the candy.

He was pretty happy with the finished product.  He doesn't quite understand why we're not eating it yet.

Based on the amount of gear we needed for 21 hours in a bordering county, I'm thinking we'll rent a u-haul for our next weekend in Tucson.