Sibling Visit to Southern Indiana

We spent a week between Evansvillle visiting Uncle Nate and Bloomington visiting Aunt Tina and Bo (Uncle Steven was still working in Washington, D.C.).  The kids absolutely LOVE staying with their Uncle and Aunt and did a great job on the 6 hour drive to Evansville.  I usually keep the truck packed with snacks, small new toys, bingo games, and coloring books.  I've also done "Travel Tickets" with them, where every half hour, they give me a ticket and when all the tickets are gone, we're there!  That seems to help with the "Are we there yet??" questions!

In Evansville, we spent time at the Children's Museum, which was perfect for our kids' age.  They had a whole room devoted to getting a child ready for Kindergarten.  It was set up like a K classroom and had a video on what to expect the first day of school.  They loved exploring everything and it was nice to be inside, escaping the hot weather.  We also went disc golfing at a course in Kentucky.  The kids lasted about half of the course and then we went to the playground while the men finished playing.  We also went out to eat (Bar Louie's was a fav!) and swam at the apartment's pool.  We spent Friday night through Monday morning in Evansville.  Uncle Nate was a great host and we had a wonderful time!

Building a house

Digging up dinosaurs

Putting bricks in the house

Drive-Thru banking

Playing with a baby in the classroom

Then on Monday, we drove to Bloomington to see Kristina's new apartment. We walked around the IU campus (which is very pretty, but we had to wear some PU gear for protection :)).  We also went to a children's museum in Bloomington.  And really the only thing that was the same was digging for fossils.  They loved playing in the water and we got smart this time and took our lunch so the kids could play a little longer.  We went to visit Kristina's school, which is an adorable little classroom off of the main church.  At this point, she's got a roster of 6 kids! 
Then we spent the day at the most awesome public pool I've ever seen.  It was $3 for adults to get in and then $2 to ride the water slides.  So it cost $11 (Matt got a wristband for the slides) and it was well worth it!  There was a huge kiddie pool with water pouring everywhere.  Then the big pool had to be Olympic sized!  It was huge with a waterslide pouring into the pool, another one ending right before the pool, and a 3rd drop off one into the deep end.  The only thing that was a little tough was the kids couldn't wear their floaties ( a pool rule) so it was a little tough keeping constant watch, but 1 was almost continually on the water slide with Daddy.  They LOVED the slides and Landon didn't even mind getting water in his face!  I wish I would've taken some pictures.
We went out to eat at the Upland Brewing Co.  They had a unique and yummy menu, not very big servings, but that gave us room for ice cream!  We had fun with Aunt Tina.  We are SOOO happy that she and Uncle Steven are closer for us to visit!

Checking out the pulley systems

Experimenting with water

AWWW!  Girls by the flowers after dinner. 
Also took a picture with Landon, but it wasn't quite blog worthy! :)