Our Trip to Ohio, Part One...

 Pit stop at Mcdonalds.

 James was very...happy..

 Cutie!

 One of the views from the Zilwaukee bridge.

 Our Flag.

 Meredith WAS happy to be out of the van, believe it or not.

 Awwwwwwwwwwww!

 Looking back (sorry its so blurry).

 We stayed the night in Dundee.

 Eating breakfast the next morning.

 SWIMMING!

 Meredith loved the pool.

 On the road again...

 there were a lot of pretty views.

 well, at least the kids were happy!

Pop Quiz: is this John or Jack?

 silly.

Jackson kept us all very "Entertained"....

Part Two coming soon!

(Oh, and for all you out there who are wondering why that little smiley face thingy is in the corner of all the pictures, it would take a very long time to explain, so I'll just call it a "camera malfunction." )

A Funny Conversation:

John David and I (Megan) were at a mowing job yesterday and once we finished, we were waiting for Dad to pick us up. I'm going to be working for Mr. Shreve this summer, for a while, so we were talking about that, and here's the conversation:

Megan: "So, Mr. Shreve, that I'm gonna work for, is he the syrup guy?"

John: "No, it's his brother."

M: "Oh. he has a brother?"

J: "Yup."

M: "Oh. Well, where does he live?"

J: "Well, you could probably bike there, actually."

M: "Really? Ok, so, tell me how to get there."

J: "Well, you start at our house and you go uphill."

M: "Right."

J: "You keep going straight, past potter road."

M: "The Fairlambs road, right."

J: "No, not the Fairlambs road."

M: "Um, that's potter road."

J: "There's two potter roads."

M: "There is?"

J: "Yes, one on the right, one on the left."

M: "So, which one do I go past?"

J: "Both of them!!! So, you go past both potter roads."

M: "OH, the one on the right is the one that goes by Mrs. Green's house, that road?"

J: "YES!!!"

M: "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...."

J: "You just keep going straight, 'till you get to that road by Mrs. Ziehm's house."

M: "Um, who is Mrs. Ziehm?"

J: "You have got to be kidding me."

M: "Oh, wait...is that the lady dad worked for?"

J: "YES."

M: "Oh, yeah, ok, I remember that house. So, what next?"

J: "You turn right."

M: "By Mrs. Ziehms?"

J: "Yes."

M: "Okay."

J: "You keep going straight, until you get to the big road."

M: "The main road?"

J: "Yeah."

M: "Ok, yeah, the one right across from the road commission place?"

J: "NO!!! Oh my goodness!"

M: "Um, Ok, I'm trying to remember.."

J: "OK, you know where Ziehms bottled gas is?"

M: "Yeah...hey! Is it by that old gas station?"

J: "Yes!"

M: "Didn't Uncle Bryan work there?"

J: "It doesn't matter! Do you know where the gas station is?!?"

M: "Yes."

J: "Ok, the road that runs by that."

M: "Ohhhh, Mr. Circle's road?"

J: "No! You just go down.....Oh, never mind. Yes!"

M: "Okay."

J: "You cross that main road and keep going straight."

M: "Mr. Circle's road."

J: "Whatever, Yes."

M: "Okay. so I go straight."

J: "Yes. You're gonna go past this water plant thingy, it'll look like a small lake."

M: "Oh yeah, I know where that is."

J: "Right."

M: "So, do I just keep going straight, past that house we saw James working at?"

J: "THATS THE SAME STINKIN' HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

=] yep, I'm a blond.

More Capitol Pix....

These are in no particular order....

 Ladies and Gents, cast your votes!

 The view from the balcony..

 Looking back (as we were leaving).

 Crossing the street.

 It all started with the sunrise.

 We had a lot of fun with the guys behind us...=D

 this is what we could see when we parked.

 Mom giving Instructions...and Sean laughing... I think she was saying something like: "behave yourselves and don't act like a bunch of red-neck homeschooled kids!"

Break out the Food!

Yeah, Sarah REALLY likes her sub...

 Waiting, Talking,Eating.

 For some reason, I never got a group picture on my camera, so here's this one.

 Crossing the street.

 then we went in another building, got our stickers, down the hall, around the corner...into the elevator..

 And into Representative Ray Franzs office!

 Miss Jennifer talking, J.D. laughing, etc.

 Jubilee. Bored. Lex. Interested.

 Timo, realizing I just took a picture of him. =]

 Sam. listening VERY intently.

 a sign.

 walking back to the van....

Just before I took the pic, timo was doing a jig....he stopped when I turned the camera on. =D

 Waiting to cross the street.

 Inside the capitol building.

 being toured.

 way up!!!!

 there were a bunch of little kids laying on the floor, looking up.

 Then we got hot dogs...

 ...from Clint, the hot dog man!

 these were no ordinary hot dogs...

..they were to die for, literally, best hot dogs you'll ever taste in your life, absolutely killer!

 Eating and resting and talking.

 and, wow laura, quite the face there, huh?

And we finally made it back to the van!

Faith: "did you just take a picture of me?!?"

THE END.