Vicki's house

We went to visit mommy's friend Vicki in Manassas, VA. The kids liked going to the duck pond and also to the House of Bounce. We had lunch at a traditional southern place---Cracker Barrel..yummy. The kids like picking out old school candy in the gift shop. Vicki also had the best treat of ice pops at her house. It must be something that everytime someone knows that Matty is coming that they make sure to have ice pops! We had a lot of fun at Vavava Vicki's house. With Vicki in obstacle course!

Daddy and Lexi go down big slide!

Mommy and Matty Bounce!

Lexi with VaVaVa Vicki!

Sesame Place

We had fun going to Sesame Place and seeing all of the characters. Surprisingly some of the rides were a little too scary for the kids and they chose to not go. But overall it was fun. They loved taking pictures with the characters. Lexi saw Zoe and said... "Mommy I wanna take picture with Zoe...cheese"It was hot and we were all tired but made the very best of it!

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Meeting Cousins

We went to my Cuusin Stacey's house to see family. Thwy had fun playing with their cousins and great aunt and uncle. Grandpa Danny...Why are you standing so far away?

Point Pleasant Boardwalk

The rain stopped so we wnent to mommy's favorite place when she was a kid...the boardwalk. Matty and Lexi went on rides and had frozen custard. Matty LOVES rides, he lights up and gets super excited. Lexi always wants to go on them, but usually just seems to pass the time while on the ride. In any event she still wants to go on them. We rode rides fro over 2 hours before leaving to travel to North Jersey to see relatives.

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Fun at Chuck E Cheese

It was raining so we decided to take the kids to Chuck E Cheese and Friendly's for some fun and dinner. The kids had fun!

The Flight

HORRIBLE... well before we booked the flight I knew a red-eye was a bad idea...but I listened to others who told me they would sleep and agreed. Well I should know by now to go with my instincts. It was a super crowded flight with no empty seats, the guy that was next to me was an ass and Lexi and Matty couldn't decide what they wanted. They kept wanting to switch places...probably to move. I tried to get them to sleep- oh no. Thank goodness they watched Dora a little.

For a lot of the flight, they both wanted to sit on mommy and the man next to me asked me to make sure that neither of them touched him or his stuff. Urghhh! For landing Jeff sat by Lexi and I by Matty...big mistake she cried for 35 minutes straight for mommy- people were not happy including Jeff. He kept saying take her, I will pay a fine for her not being buckled in seat, but I was worried about safety. Matty fell asleep literally within 5 minutes of hitting the ground.

He slept through the airport and even through getting rental car. Lexi was a little more difficult in the airport but not awful. She too fell asleep a little after hitting the rental car. It was a calm ride to my parents' house except for the rain.

We arrived at The Kalish's and all was good until...They woke up screaming. It took about 10 minutes to coax them back to sleep on mommy and then we all tried to nap for a while. When they got up from naps, they were much happier and ready to have fun.

Our Pilot

We got to the airplane with enough time so be grabbed a bite at CPK. We were seated next to a nice pilot. Matty and Lexi were very interested in him, which is strange becasue usually they are shy with others, but I guess they were excited that he flew planes. We got to talking and realized that he was one of the pilots on our plane. He invited the kids to the cockpit when we got on the plane, probably to give the kids a tour and some wings, but it didn't work out...at least we have this picture.