Quick Update on the Day

Made it to the police station this morning, got fingerprinted and went to UPS to overnight the fingerprints to the FBI.

Drove to Jefferson City, stepped into the 4x4 office and got all "cleared" of any mis-doings in the state of Missouri. Isabelle was a little nervous and kept saying, "Are you sure you're not a criminal mom?"

Took a very quick tour of the state capital building with Taylor and Isabelle, who accompanied me, and I think got their appetites wet for learning a little "Missouri History" next year! Funny moving to a new state... we're so familiar with PA history, that the though of another state having "history" was kind of startling to them!

Caught a really great photography exhibit in a tiny museum near the capital. I love talking about art with my kids. I love seeing what catches their eye, and hearing about why they like what they like.

Headed home! Missed one turn and ended up 20 minutes out of the way. Bummer when that happens!

Stopped at two discount furniture stores to see if any had baby furniture. The first had some great deals, but no baby stuff. The second appeared to be a furniture store, even said OPEN in big red letters and had a full parking lot, but in approaching the door it was evident that not all was as it appeared. We were greated at the door by an armed officer, and could see lots of other officers at desks in the background, NO FURNITURE IN SIGHT! We were quickly told that it was now a FEMA office and had not been a furniture store for years!

And a quick travel tip from Taylor (my 11 year old): we were doing the whole walk through the alphabet with road signs thing to kill time, which made him take notice of a sign for a hotel saying "SUPER SEVEN". Tay's comment, was "Ohhh, Super Seven, that must be really bad!" I laughed, but Isabelle needed more explanations, "You know" he said, "Super 8's are kind of yucky motel's so Super 7's must be really nasty".