Welp, we made it!
We're here in Illinois now, and this is unashamedly backdated. That being said, here's what
yesterday would've sound like, had I been telling you about it...
yesterday ;)....
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Work ended early today, immediately following our weekly office lunch. The benefit of working for owners who are not only generous in every other regard, but who are also Catholic, is that they wholly support not working on Good Friday. Our business kind of dictates that we do at least
some work on Fridays, but none of us were complaining when we locked up at noon for the weekend. (:
I took that time to get an oil change and finish up some last minute packing. Fast forward an hour and Rob had joined me at the house, loaded up all his gear, and the two of us were on the road en route to an Easter weekend in Illinois.
I can say this now, because we're past the point of the weekend, but I'd been putting the final outer layers on a piñata for Ali's surprise birthday bash, but hadn't managed to get all of it done by the deadline of hitting the road today.
What'd that mean? It meant me sandwiched in the front seat between the seat itself and a giant slowly-becoming-green handmade piñata. Luckily, I only had about an hour's worth of work left to be done; I was completed and cleaned up long before we hit the halfway mark of the trip.
We stopped first to see Rob's mom. Kyle happened to make a quick appearance, too, and so we started off our Illinois time with that before we were on to Jesse's.
Speaking of Jesse's, Zeppelin is getting
big! I love when puppies start looking more like dogs, but I also always miss the puppy size. Zepp's a beautiful boy, and was super excited to see us.
It wasn't long at Jesse's before we decided to set out for dinner, which had been decidedly Bindy's. You know you've been out of Granite for a long time, when you start
planning .....
days in advance .... to go to Bindy's. Haha. Really, all I wanted were some fried green beans.
What I didn't know, until tonight, was that Bindy's gets theirs from the Schwan's guy.
Mind. Blown.
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| schwans. they are from schwans! |
Anyway, we hung out there for a bit, and in the typical weekend fashion that is Bindy's, the clock ticked into the night and drew out several of Rob's friends.
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| these guys (: |
So yeah, we're here. And to Bindy's we went and came...
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| fave! |
And now, we sleep... haha.
See ya in the morning!
xo |
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