First Overnight Trip

We got back today from Lorelei's first overnight and out-of-state trip. Aaron, Jamie, Lorelei, and Grandma Honey (Aune) drove to Mora, MN to visit family and especially Grandma Barker (Aaron's maternal grandma and Lorelei's great-grandma). Aaron's cousin James, his wife, Lisa, and their daughter, Livia, also came and visited Grandma and us as well. Grandma was in a great mood and was very excited to see everybody and show baby Lorelei to all of her friends.

The next day we drove back down to the Twin Cities area to visit Uncle Brian, Aunt Starla, Cousin Julie and her husband Eric at Brian's sports card shop. Lorelei was very hungry so after a nice meltdown, a bottle, a blow-out, and change of clothes, we were finally ready to be in a good mood and give nice smiles to everyone.

Also, this night, Aaron and Jamie had planned to go to the Madonna concert in St. Paul and Grandma Honey was going to baby-sit. As usual, we planned to work the scalpers at the event. We were unusually swarmed by tons of scalpers and by a couple whose friends were suppose to come with, but, they had to cancel at the last minute. They really wanted to go inside, so long story short, they gave us the tickets for an exchange of a couple of beverages. Unbelieveably, it cost more to park for the show than for us to actually get in!

And last, but, not least, Lorelei slept driving to and from home the ENTIRE time.