Trip to Indiana (also known as the McDonald's World Tour)

The Friday morning before last (the 10th), George advised me that he wasn't going to have to work on Saturday like he originally thought. We had been thinking about maybe going to Indiana the following weekend, and he commented that he'd probably miss two days of overtime if we did. I noted, "We could go to Indiana right now," and we decided to go for it.

We had been wanting to go see George's Mom for awhile, and going today also meant that we'd get to stop at Koodie-Hoo's (Sue & Randy's bar & grill) tomorrow. Koodie-Hoo's was celebrating their 10th anniversary.

We did some laundry, packed, and hit the road around 3:00 Friday afternoon. We drove until 10:30 and stopped in Forrest City, Arkansas to spend the night. We got back on the road around 9:00 the next morning. We ran into a couple of heavy downpours but the rest of the drive was quite pleasant!

When traveling, we seem to stop at McDonald's quite often but we dubbed this trip our McDonald's World Tour. In the process, I discovered that their hot vanilla coffee with a shot of cream and a few shots of Splenda is quite wonderful! I'll be having more of those when we resume the tour.

Crossing the Wabash

We're only a few miles away!
Anybody got 50 cents?

We're just outside of Mt. Vernon

We arrived about 2:45 and
went straight to Koodie-Hoo's.

Mom and Don were there.
They drove up the day before.

The mayor presented them with a
plaque earlier in the day. This picture
of Sue holding the plaque was taken
in front of a poster board that Sue
created for the special occassion.
It holds memorabilia and
photos from the last 10 years.

George and Mom

Jeanne and me

We stayed at Koodie-Hoo's a few hours and had a good time. Then, we when to Mom's house.

Mom Keller

And Jim came by

On Saturday, George
whacked off some shrubs
that Mom wanted removed.

They were all gone in no time!

On Sunday morning, we bundled
them up for the trash pile

Late Sunday afternoon, we went to
Sue & Randy's for a cook out.

Lexus with her pretty smile!

Cutie Aaliyah

Us girls with Mom

It cracked me up that when George

was trying to take the picture above,
Stacie mischeviously stuck her head
in the background of this one.
She's funny.

But my favorite picture of the entire trip is the one below of Jeanne and Sue taken at Koodie-Hoo's.

It looks like Jeanne's up to
something ornery and there's no
telling what Sue's thinking!
Maybe, "She's at it again!"

With smiles,
D~~~~