The six adults, Lauren, and Cole played contract gin several nights. We set up two tables and the two top winners from each table played each other the next night. The two bottom losers from each table were a foursome. The "Losers" table, Jeff and Caroline, Brett and Esther. Sorry kiddos!
That made the "Winners" table, Papa, Grandma, Lauren, and Cole. I think Cole is saying something like, "Papa you're going down!" Guess who was the overall winner (though you can't tell it from this hand)?!?!?! Yep, you guessed, Grandma! I love this game!
On Monday, Brett, Jeff, and Cole were going to drive to Kansas City. Brett wanted to show them the Negro League Baseball Museum. They also planned to go to the National World War I Museum and have some great BBQ. The night before, someone has the bright idea to find out when the museums opened for the day. Good thing, because sadly BOTH were CLOSED on Monday. Brett was so disappointed as he'd wanted to do this for months! Since we were driving to Branson on Wednesday, Brett didn't want to drive to KC on Tuesday, so what would we do???
Hey Everyone! How about bowling?? It just so happened that The Alley in Wichita was having a "Monday Special", 99 cents for each game/person and 99 cents for shoes. So it was off to Wichita for bowling and Freddy's custard. Don't you love all those brightly colored (mostly 6-10 pound) balls? This was such a fun place. We had two lanes in a section of about 8 lanes. At the end, over where the pins stand, there were large screen monitors playing World Cup soccer, cartoons, or music videos. So in addition to the bowling fun, everyone was totally entertained
A couple of weeks before the kids came, I made cut-out sugar cookies (hearts, flowers, ducks, butterflies, tea pots) and put them in the freezer. We pulled out the bag and Jordyn and Lauren started to decorate them and were soon joined by Katelyn, Allison, and Moira. We planned to take them on our trip to Branson. They'd be good dessert at our picnic lunch en route. I will say that I swept the floor multiple times, vacuumed it, and finally mopped it BEFORE I got all the sprinkles picked up! Such fun we had!
Allison and Kate wanted to make cookies so we got out the chocolate chips and started working away.
Cole made peanut butter cookies. We fixed up two zip bags of cookies, one for each villa we were staying in at Branson. So we had plenty of cookies, but oddly, they didn't last long!
I love baking and to do it with my grandchildren is a real joy - and memory-maker!
You are just a fun grandma!!
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