We had a nice visit with Mike, Karen, Daniel, Abby and Sophie. They treated us to local pizza for dinner. Gary and I like to try local pizza. The girls let us invade their bedroom. And Ellie tried to sleep beside Sophie. It didn't work out so well. By 11:00 I had to move her. And by the morning both of our kids were in bed with us. It was a little crowded. I am not an advocate of a family bed with my family.

Karen made us pancakes and sausage. Very yummy. It was nice to not have to make meals.

Happy Birthday Mike! Karen gave Mike his presents - a grill, a grill tool, and some beer. What more could a man want?

Daniel had a football scrimmage so we didn't get to see him this morning. He was gone before we woke up.

The rest of us went for a walk. It was suppose to be a nice, relaxing walk to the elementary school playground. It turned into a big headache full of time outs and a screaming child. Josh was the culprit this time, though Ellie wasn't completely innocent. We even elicited neighborhood stares. One women actually stood, shielded her eyes (the sun was behind us) and stared at us. Twice. I waved to her the second time.

If it was just Gary and me, we would have turned around and gone back. But we plodded on. After a fun forty minutes, we reached our destination. The play time was much less than travel time. The way home went slightly faster, for we agreed to carry Josh and Ellie.

We got on the road after lunch. Sweet sensitive Sophie didn't want to see us go.

As we've entered each state, I've taken a picture of the state sign. I miss calculated the distance to the Ohio State line and missed the sign. Gary's warning was not in enough time. He graciously got off at the next exit, turned around, got back on going into MI. Used the next exit, got back on going towards OH. I had my camera ready this time and got my photo.

The Harkleroads welcomed us at 6:30 PM.

Nathan, Elizabeth, Timothy, Ellie and Josh all had fun playing in the back yard after dinner.

At bedtime, Ellie tried again to sleep with another person in the room. She ended up falling asleep in our room. We moved her when the two girls had fallen asleep. At least they could wake up together.