One of Daddy’s friends from elementary school was going through Indiana, so he decided to stop by. Dad was excited to see him again, because they had not seen each other in about 25 years! Woody got here around 2:30 on the Sunday after Thanksgiving.

The kids loved Woody. Indigo was all over him, especially when she saw this app on his phone. You talked to a cat, and it said your words back to you, but in this contorted weird voice. She had so much fun with that:

We then ate some leftovers from Thanksgiving dinner, and then the boys wanted to play tiger:

In case you did not know, Tiger is a game where the boys try to take down whatever poor man took their challenge. If the man, (in this case Woody,) could hold all of them to the ground at the same time, for 3 seconds, he would be declared the winner. But if they could pin him to the ground for 3 seconds, the boys would win. This time, the boys won.

Then they played with the weird cat app again:

Then it was time for bed. Woody told the cat, “go to bed little girls”. Then the cat said in it’s weird voice, “go to bed little girls”. The girls were not happy with Woody then.

We were leaving the next day for the PA Christmas show. When I woke up that morning at 7:00, Woody was folding up all his blankets (he slept on the couch). We had breakfast, then we loaded all of our suitcases into the Hulk. We had a tough time fitting it all in there:

Everyone was getting in the car when an 18-wheeler showed up with a shipment of 50,000 bags for the soap. So all the boys got back out of the Hulk, and dragged all the boxes up the driveway:

After we were done with that we had to give hugs all over again. Hewitt got a little excited that we were finally going:

That night we stayed at a hotel near Pittsburgh. We only brought in the necessities.  Blankets and computers. We wanted to get out of there early the next day, so we did not bring any extra stuff in. The girls were Everyone was really tired:

Mom and I were kicking ourselves when we realized we did not bring in a hairbrush, or our toothbrushes, or anything. It is really hard to feel clean when you have not brushed your hair and your teeth. When we woke up, Mom and I both ran to find our toothbrushes.

We still had a four hour drive to get to the show to set up.  At our last stop before we got there, we were going to the bathroom. Mom and I helped the girls out of the car, and walked in to find the boys all gathered around … Woody, who was on his way to Philadelphia! The boys thought that it was cool that we met up 24 hours after we parted ways.

Those were three pretty good days. I’m so glad we got to meet Woody. We had so much fun, and all of us really liked him. Thanks for coming out, Woody!