daytona weekend

Once again we attended the Embry Riddle family weekend. It was great to see Matthew in his environment and we really enjoyed seeing family that came in from Tennessee. Morgan looked so cute when we got out of the car that I wanted to take her picture. This is her I'm too good for pictures face. This girl is all full of spice.

Before eating lunch we walked around and looked at all the planes. The girls found the same private plane from last year (post here) and made themselves at home.

I guess this kind of picture is better than no picture. She's such a goof sometimes.

I wanted a picture of our little family in front of this big engine. The girls act like this request is such a chore. After some moaning and groaning they gave in.

After lunch we did the flight simulator again. Michael did much better this year. He made it onto the aircraft carrier, but still crashed at the end. 

We took a tour around campus and stopped near the statue.

Before heading to the last stop of the day, the CSI crashes, we went to the tower to watch a couple of planes take off.

The crash site was really neat. There is so much stuff that you can learn just about how the crash is laid out on the ground. It made me more nervous to fly. Now I'll have to up my pills.

After I had a nap and the girls played in the hotel pool a little our whole group went to an Italian place for dinner. The straight from New York woman who owned the placed was running the show by herself. She said we could sit at any table we wanted as long as we were patient. And her conversations only got more blunt from there. The food was really good, but it was not cool that everyone on the other end of the table was done eating before the kids even got their cheese pizza. I was really proud of them though. They sat there from 5:30 to 7 munching on garlic knots and coloring. They walked around the table to talk to cousins, but they were pretty well behaved.

Sunday we headed home. We told the girls that if they napped in the car they wouldn't have to take a nap at home. Then we could go straight to look for a cat. They took us up on that offer.

It was great to see our Tennessee family. Visits are short, but always fun.