Adrians Visit: part one

So last Sunday Adrian and I woke up in the wee hours of the morning and loaded in the car for our 11 hour trek north through Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota and then East to That One Place in Wisconsin.  It was, no doubt, a loooooooong drive.  He sang "I have a tiny turtle, his name is tiny Tim"  5892 times give or take a couple hundred.

And he spent a lot of time watching dvd's.

Then we passed through Iowa.  Iowa where there is NOTHING for miles and miles and miles.  Kind of like western Kansas, but worse.  And of course during this part of the trip mother nature called. 

"Gramma I have to poop" 

 "I will stop as soon as I find a place" 

"but I have to go NOW!" 

"Adrian look out your window.  Do you see any where?"

"Um no.  But there are animals out there"  "They go poop out there.  But gramma, they dont wipe their butt.  That's just naaaasty"

Sorry I had to talk about poop.  But it was funny at the time.

And he did a tiny bit sleeping.  Ahhh the quietness. For a minute anyway.

 

He slept through the important part.  The part where it was storming.  It was hailing, pouring rain and the wind was shaking my car like there were people jumping on it. I was skeered! He was asleep. And then it passed. 

We got home and Papa thought little boys should have baby calfs to feed and pet and love on so off we went to the sale and home we came with not one, but two calfs. 

 Paps is showing him how it is done.  Nigel is so hungry.

 Now Adrian is giving it a shot with Rigby.

Needless to say on day two, Adrian tried to give me the calfs because feeding just wasnt fun anymore.

While they were feeding I noticed these paw prints on the window sill and took a picture. 

 I know, I am weird that way. 

I wonder if it belongs to this cat.  One of the many we have discovered that live in the loft of the milk house.  I dont remember that being in the rental lease.  Hmmmm

Then we saw this one day.  It is beautiful and it was around for a looooooong time.

Then one evening my brother in law, his wife and kids and Kelly, Adrian, and myself went on a picnic/fishing trip.  The kids, aahemmm, caught a lot of fish. And when I say kids I mean Rocky and the Barbie Pole.

 Adrian caught a few on his new pole too.

 Today we went to Family Dollar to get bathroom cleaner and a bubble gun.

The cleaner was for me.  The bubble gun for Adrian.  Just in case you were wondering.

He couldnt get it to work at first.

 Ah there we go!

So that is it for part one of the visit.  If I survive, I will post part 2 next week.