William brought us to mom's work and we left for St. Louis after mom got off work on Friday. This was a corn field at a gas station in Ina, Illinois. Maggie went really far into the corn field and screamed. I knew she was just trying to scare me, but I just thought, "What if she isn't and I ignore her?" Then I got mad and made her come back out :)
We arrived around midnight at Aunt Linda's house, greeted by her, Uncle Jack, her daughter Robin and two of Robin's kids, Kayla and Mariah. Our cousin Jackie's son was also there. Maggie and JoJo went straight down to the theatre room and started a movie after we chatted a bit. The rest of us stayed up until five in the morning! It was a much needed catch up. Aunt Linda had cookies already baked for us to munch on, as always.
Saturday we did our share of shopping while Maggie and Joanna went to Six Flags. Sunday was a relaxing day. We really just hung out at the house while we visited with some other cousins. Maggie and Joanna went to Six Flags again.
On Monday, Aunt Linda took us to brunch at the cutest place. It had tons of girly things for sale and was set up like a little cafe. Plus, it was delicious.
This was my vegetable wrap with carrots, eggplant, squash, spinach and hummus wrapped in a sun-dried tomato wrap.
The plates were garnished with frozen grapes and lemons (my favorite)
We ate it all!
Of course, Aunt Linda ordered us this amazing lava cake. She loves desserts!
This was the same day we rode the train to Chicago. Mom and Maggie walking to board the train.
Us over the train tracks.
All Aboard!
We rode in business class on the way. It's so roomy! It has tons of leg space, chairs that reclined really far and a complimentary drink!
They were on the computer together.
Joanna on the left, Mag on the right
We took this for mom :)
We finally arrived after our delay, but we were so excited about the train ride we barely noticed we were stopped. This is Nikki's dining room. We just picked up a frozen pizza and relaxed for the night.
We had to get up early for the next day...
More to come soon!
4 comments:
YAY! I was just procrastinating doing my writing and I thought, maybe Chelsea's put up some pics! So yay, perfect timing sister! :) Great pics. Uh, the one of mom and Mag at the train station - TOO FUNNY - they have the same facial expression. Little Marty Bates. Hahaha. Great pics sis, can't wait to see more! Love you -- and also, that veggie wrap is making me HONGRY
Oops, I said "great pics" twice. Please disregard one of those. :) Love you!
Man, Chelsea, you are so good, I am so behind on my blog!! Love all the pictures!! The corn field was great and I bet that Vegetable wrap was awesome, I am with Jessica, making me hungry too!! Looks like yall had the best time and you are such good girls to know your momma so well, Loved the wall picture, haha!! You are blessed to have an Aunt Linda, looks like she showed you all a good time! Love ya Looks like a really fun trip!!
ps, Maggie does look just like Marty in the train station picture!!
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