Our trip to Indiana

Saturday night Susie picked us up at Indy's new, fancy airport and we headed to dinner downtown. We ate at Harry & Izzy's. It is a sister restaurant to St. Elmo's and has the same shrimp cocktail. YUM! It was so good. Thank you, Susie. After dinner we dropped Jackson off at a bar to hang out with some of his guy friends. Susie and I went to Kroger then headed back to her place. It was so nice to be in Fishers after a few crazy days in NYC!

Sunday morning we woke up and cooked breakfast: Jackson's famous french toast. It was great. Then we headed to church at Grace. It was so nice to be back in our home church. Susie went with us. It was baptism day so she didn't get to see Dave Rod speak. Bummer. After church we ran some errands at Hamilton Town Center. I cannot believe that they built that place as I was leaving. Jerks. We then went back to Susie's house and has Christmas. YAY! Who doesn't love to open presents?! Thanks again, Susie.

My Uncle Duane had some spare front row IU tickets for Sunday's game so we ran down to Bloomington to see our beloved Hoosiers lose to some school we'd never heard of. What a bummer. We still loved seeing our Hoosiers play. While we were in Bloomington we ate a Moe's Mexican Grill and they had-wait for it- white cheese! I was so pleased!

Monday we slept in because Sunday was so busy. Leave us alone. We were on vacation. We went to lunch for Mexican again because it was so good the night before. We took Susie to see Marley & Me. It was a really cute movie. We went from seeing no movies since we'd been in CO to seeing 3 in two weeks! After the movie we headed up to Marion to see my dad and step-mom. We visited with them for a while and saw all of their new toys! We met Christina and Ben for dinner at Pizza King. What a treat! I gave in and went to see my parent's new house. I got to see Macy and Madison so that was a plus. It was nice to see my parents even if the conversation was extremely strained.

We got back to Indy and had 4 hours to sleep before we needed to head to the airport. Sweet. Susie had a flight to Orlando at the same time that we did to Denver so we carpooled. It was nice to get to spend the morning with her. Our flight to Denver felt like it took a lifetime because we were so tired! I dropped Jackson off at his office and headed to get my little dog. I was so happy to see MacKenzie! She was happy, too. I think she thought we had forgotten to come get her. Poor little girl. She was so dirty! We came home and showered right away!! Jackson only had a half-day so I went to get him and we went to lunch. After a quick, but brutally expensive trip to the grocery store we went to bed! Yes, it was about 4pm. We were so tired. We got up for a bit that evening, but not much. We pretty well slept into the next day!

Wednesday Jackson didn't have to be at work until 12:30 so we were lazy and loved it! We had nowhere to be and didn't feel guilty for sleeping in. (Not that the guilt hurt us much on our vacation, LOL!) MacKenzie went for a haircut at Petsmart. She was so mad that I was leaving her again. She screamed and cried. I felt awful. She looks so cute now though. She has a real schnauzer haircut. I did some shopping, but the mall was still insane. I thought by New Year's Eve the mall would have calmed down some. It had not. Where is the recession when I need it?! The rest of our day was spent running errands and catching up after being gone for a week. We never vacation for that long so it really threw us off schedule. We cooked a turkey breast, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy for a New Year's dinner. (We missed Christmas dinner and had a cold pizza so we felt it was fitting to do it up for New Year's!)

We made it to see the ball drop on NYC time, but were in bed before it was officially 2009. We're old. What can I say?

Happy 2009!