webcoynes: You're Welcome!

The day after Fun Aunt Cathy left, Brian's parents came for a visit. They left 90 degree temps and warm sunshine and arrived in 40 degrees and rain for four days straight - uh, you're welcome!

I thought it would be fun to escape the rain and go underground to the Luray Caverns. Stalactites! Stalagmites! What's not to love? Apparently the anticipation of it all was too much because James got sick on the way there and we had to make a pit stop to clean the car seat, clean James and change clothes all in a cool 40 degree WINDY parking lot.

You're welcome!

We took James to some other caverns once and we were turned away at the door because we didn't have jackets. "It's freezing!" they said. Brian's parents were already cold from the shocking change in temperature so I went ON and ON about how cold the caverns were and encouraged everyone to dress in every single jacket they could find. "Bundle up!" I said.

We arrived at the Luray Caverns, zipped up our jackets, pulled down our hats and descended the stairs... to a balmy 70 degree cavern. I asked the guide if it gets colder - NOPE! 1 1/2 miles of caverns in a tropical setting and we're dressed like Eskimos.

You're welcome!

Oma gave James some coins to throw in the "donation pool" and this is, verbatim, what he wished for:

"I wish, I wish, I wish we could go home."

Hey kiddo..... you're welcome.

And then to really seal our "what a great trip" fate, we went out to dinner.... with a baby and a toddler.

You're welcome!

When he wasn't climbing under the table, James was doing a lot of this:

and this:

so we fed him a very large piece of chocolate cake (with ice cream) at 8 o'clock at night.

You're welcome!

Molly mostly did this:

But she also managed to get her death grip on our server's tray that was holding three glasses of wine, causing him to say in the highest voice possible, "Oh no! Oh no! Oh please no!"

Not a drop was spilled - good girl.