Girls Trip!!!

Spring Break began with a bang.  The Coronavirus started to make people pretty nervous, but it hadn't yet hit people hard.  The hand sanitizer, water bottles, and, of course, the toilet paper began to disappear from the shelves, but we braved the airport to get these girls (and me!) to our old house in Maryland to visit our dear friends.  A yer and a half is too long for these girls to have been apart!

The playhouse that Brian built for the girls so long ago.  They are so big next to it now!  Check it out when it was brand new here.

The morning of our flight we found out that Ann's youngest had a stomach bug.  Did we let that stop us?  Oh, no!  Come Coronavirus or stomach bug, we were going to Maryland!  We used the basement bathroom the whole time we were there just to be on the safe side and washing hands was the name of the game.  It did change our plans though for once we got there.  Even though we were willing to brave the viruses running rampant, not many others were.  We moved our plans to a park and restaurants instead of at Ann's.  

The gang, back together again, in our old living room

We spent many evenings playing One Night Werewolf Daybreak which is quite addicting despite the fact that, generally, I am terrible at it.  The girls spent a lot of time reminiscing about the old days and re-watching old videos they'd made together.

We saw a movie one day, went shopping a couple of days, visited their co-op to see more friends, and went to Mass together as well.

We were able to meet up with my cousins too.

The end of our trip came all too soon, especially for the inseparable 3 musketeers.  It was a much needed break for me, and just what our hearts needed too.  And no one else got sick!  Thanks be to God!

Outtakes: 

1.  When we got to the airport in Texas and the girls were cold.  I said they're really going to be cold in DC then.  That's when the girls confess they both only brought one sweatshirt and no jackets, the rest was short sleeves, pretty much.  Lucky for them we did bring some warmer weather with us up to Maryland.  But still!

2.  Everyone thought it entirely funny when I accidentally called the Mandalorian, the Manchurian.

3.  While we were gone, Brian knocked out a major to do list and took the boys on a 5.2 mile hike in which every one of them (Bob included!) walked the entire time, and Drew reported that Dad said, "We're all going to die out here!" twenty-six times because it got up to 80 degrees.