Rewind - Last Weekend

Last weekend we went to Bloomington to visit Mariah at IU for her birthday (which was this past Friday). She was very excited to see us...and we were excited to see her as well. We ate lunch at her apartment after a long drive up there then headed to the WonderLab (Bloomington's children's museum). We all had a blast. We went back to Mariah's apartment for a soy milk fruit smoothie - Drew thought that it was pretty cool.

Later on that evening, we took Mariah to Roots (a vegetarian/vegan restaurant). Drew was excited that he got to eat in a special restaurant - vegan food avoids all animal products therefore eliminating milk and butter. He liked the herbed mashed potatoes and sweet potato fries, tolerated the Seitan (wheat meat) nuggets, and loved the chocolate soy ice cream as you can see from the pictures. Ben thought that he would have to stop for a cheeseburger on the way home while Drew was sleeping...but actually enjoyed his Seitan fajitas. Mariah loved her Mediterranean plate. I thought that the creamy pesto linguine with portabello steaks was wonderful (but can you really mess up mushrooms?).

We played LCR (Drew's favorite game) at Mariah's apartment and played with his Lightning McQueen remote controlled car before heading home. It didn't take him very long to fall asleep after we gave him his "Snuggle Puppy" Chief in the car.

On Sunday, we went to church then came home to let Ben sleep a little before we headed to Dale to watch the Superbowl with Jim's clan and Kathy. We wanted to make sure that everyone got to see Ben and Drew before Ben goes to 2nd shift at the beginning of March resulting in 7-8 weeks before he has another weekend off.