On vacation

We were supposed to leave this morning at noon, but one thing led to another and the leave time got delayed later and later. Finally, we launched off an hour and a half late (good thing we weren't heading to the airport). We made our way through Indy, where we took a wrong turn and had a scenic view of some odd neighborhoods and ended up meandering our way through downtown until we found the highway again.

For some reason Hailey was in an especially inquisitive mood, and she had fifty million questions. (She doesn't handle change very well, and it seems to throw her off.) So, naturally, being the sensitive parents we are, we answered every one of her fifty million questions with patience and love.

Finally we reached Cincinatti, and the fifty million and first question just sent us over the edge, so we had to invoke the "No More Talking" rule so we could find our hotel, get checked in, find some supper, and get our minds organized.

After driving around and getting our bearings in a part of the city that must have some ordinance against business signs that are tall enough to read we finally settled on a Chinese place where Shelby screamed and cried because she needed "a dwink sooooo bad." Apparently the owner was having some sort of altercation about the finer points of someone's takeout order, and they both thought that talking louder and louder would overcome their language barrier. Shelby thought that crying louder and louder would help the Chinese lady overcome her forgetfulness about our dwinks! And Hailey suddenly resumed her game of fifty million questions, all while Brian and I were trying to get everyone to stop talking and eat so we could just go back to the hotel and go swimming.

Unfortunately, Hailey's fortune cookie had this fortune for her "You have an ability, to sense and know higher truth." Please, God, don't tell me that is going to happen through asking more questions.

Luckily, my fortune read "Good things are coming to you in due course of time." That fortune actually came true. See below!

Hopefully the good things foretold for me in my Fortune Cookie will extend to tomorrow. I would appreciate my good things including remarkably obedient children, short lines all day long, and free food / drinks every time we get hungry tomorrow at Kings Island. I'll let you know if that comes true :-)