Another Weekend Away

Last weekend we traveled east again to visit family and fulfill a promise to one of our Hershey girls (I'll call her "Amanda" as we aren't supposed to use their real names on the Internet) to take her with us for an entire weekend. On Friday we stopped in Hershey to pick up one of our favorite (well at least mine...Jen says she doesn't have favorites) girls "Amanda" and spent some time there visiting the other girls as well. Jen, Amanda, and I headed down to Maryland and had dinner with my aunt and uncle and all my cousins. Friday night was performing magic with my uncle at his house and refusing to take home all his stuff (he always tries to give all his stuff away).

On Saturday, Jen headed to Reading to go to a woman's conference at her sister's church and to visit her sister and family. I went with my aunt, uncle, and Amanda to a magic convention featuring Harry Anderson (the judge from the old sitcom Night Court). We all had a great time, although it was a very long 12-hour day that Amanda and I had to escape to the playground a few times. Jen had a great time spending time with her family!

On Sunday we went to my cousin's church in Maryland and then to the Cracker Barrel for lunch where Amanda put on a show for everyone of all the new things she had learned. On the way home I asked her the favorite part of the weekend expecting to hear something about Harry Anderson, or one of the new tricks she learned, etc...but was very touched when she said, "My favorite part of the whole weekend was when you played soccer in the yard with me Friday after dinner and when we got to go play on the playground just you and me". When I asked, "Didn't you like the magic convention", she responded..."Yeah, I loved it! I just loved those other things even more".

Hope all is well with everyone!