Spontaneity on Spring Break!

Oh, Spring Break. How wonderful you are! Over my break I did lots of homework, tried new recipes, cleaned a little, and made a fun trip to Kansas.

We have a couple of awesome friends, Dac and Alisha, who live out in Matt's hometown. We get to see them pretty often when we have family events going on, but we usually have to squeeze in our visits around all the family time. This time, we decided to switch things up: we went to visit Dac and Alisha, and we squeezed in family time around our plans with friends!


It was a pretty short trip, but we wanted to make sure we got to see everyone! We headed out late Wednesday and got in to my grandparents' house really early in the morning. It was great to visit all day Thursday. We had delicious food, prepared by my grandma, and lots of chatting. We even took a little bit of time to check out the local used bookstore. I loved it because there were three cats running all around the store.

They loved attention. When Matt sat down to look through a book, he had a friend jump up to join him.

Then we got back in the car (we spent a lot of time in the car...) to make our way to good ol' AC.

Me and my car buddy, Henry. He's a frog/pillow.

We had some family time on Thursday night. Good visiting and more good food. Friday morning, we were ready for some quality D&A time. But first, we had a date with Jerry.

Mmm. Jerry's donuts.

While Alisha was at work, Dac, Matt, and I dug around for some fun things to do around southeastern Kansas. Like disc golf!

Crouched in the trees.

Digging out discs.

Synchronized disc golf.

We needed to kill a little more time, so we went to the nearby casino. I have never gambled before, so it was an exciting side trip for me.

My first time! We got in trouble for taking this picture...

Finally, Alisha came home! We had lots of fun talking, playing games, and just being silly. It's so fun to hang out with these people!

Blokus!

Friday night, we had plans to add some more great friends, John and Anna, to our little party. Unfortunately, due to other obligations, they decided they couldn't make the two-hour drive. We were a little disappointed that our sixsome was back to a foursome. But in a hugely spontaneous move, we decided that if they couldn't come to us, we would go to them! We packed up our party, including games, drinks, and snacks, and hopped in the car for a mini road trip.

Ready to go.

We have a history of making surprise trips to see John and Anna (if one other time makes it a history). We let Anna know we were on our way, but we told her to keep it secret from John. We arrived at their door, and Matt ran in to plop on top of John.

Surprise!

Not quite as crazy as the last surprise trip, when Matt crawled into bed with John in the wee morning hours. But it was certainly a bit of a shock!

We were able to continue our previously planned evening of fun and games in a new location.

Fun times.

We said good-bye to John and Anna on Saturday morning, and headed up to Wichita to hunt for a game we'd been wanting to play since last year, when we were all stuck inside due to a Colorado snowstorm. We found the game, had a good lunch, and then went to a fun at a barbeque at Matt's folks' house. Then it was time for Settlers of Catan!

Fun game. (And yes, we put the Avs game on the computer in the background.)

Sadly, we had to head home on Sunday morning. But we had a great time with great friends!