We spent our one non-travelling day, Sunday, hanging out with my brother's family and my in-laws. I went to church by myself. I love going back to visit because it's the church I grew up in and there are some very special people there that I'm able to catch up with. One of them being my oldest niece. And boy did we have some catching up to do! Ha! She ran right up to me and started chattering away. She had much to share. Even more with C. Hubby brought the boys up after church was over and we all drove to lunch. When my niece got out of the car she started talking a mile a minute to C. He put both his hands up and started shaking his head "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Too much information too fast. Slow down." My father in law got a kick out of that and told C he better get used to it. :)
We had lunch at Fritz's, the train restaurant. It's been big on our list of fun things to do in Kansas that we keep going over with lil' peanut as he's been less than thrilled with the move at times. He was pretty stoked to eat there and hopefully it eased a bit of his anxiety about the move. After lunch we went to Science City, which I haven't been to since high school! It was a lot of fun. The kids all had a great time.
This was one of my favorite exhibits, the fossil dig. All the little people stayed in one place for a good amount of time so the adults were able to have a seat and relax a bit. This is me showing off how stylish baby wearing can be without the actual baby. ;)
Monday morning we went to Ft. Leavenworth to meet with the housing office. To my surprise, she gave us the key and we got to go check out the house they have available for us by ourselves. That was awesome. If you have never seen kids in a completely empty house, you may not know this, but it's like...the best thing ever. I can't imagine it would have been as fun had we needed them to "behave" because someone was there watching us. They ran crazy all over that place! They played hide and seek, raced around claiming their new bedrooms, and slid across the floors in their socks. I think the stairs were pumpkin baby's favorite thing about the whole house. We don't have them at home, so he was quite intrigued. We decided that, yes, we would accept the house. I don't know why we would have said no since we totally lucked out and they have no vacant housing right now for hubby's actual rank so we are getting a nice little upgrade. :) The house is very nice. It's single family, which is wonderful. Our home at Ft. Meade was great, but we never liked not having our own yard (it was a four-plex). This one has a yard AND it's already fenced in. Yay for being able to boot the boys outside to run off steam.
After we looked at the new house we went back to the housing office so hubby could sign all the paperwork. They have a cute little playground right out back so the kids and I were able to play while he did that. When housing was all set, we drove around the base for a bit. We found the reserve center hubby will be working at and then we made one last stop before heading back home. I'm on a Ft. Leavenworth spouses fb page and a few weeks ago everyone was all excited that the Price Chopper in town was now carrying Shatto Milk. It's from a local dairy farm and they do different flavored milks. According to the fb chatter their root beer flavor is amazing. We weren't that adventurous this time around but I'm sure we'll try them all once we're settled in. Hubby and C picked chocolate, I had strawberry and lil' peanut chose cotton candy. He likes some weird stuff (hello watermelon frozen yogurt topped with sour gummy worms, chocolate syrup, and m&m's!) so I knew he would love it, but I was skeptical. You guys, that cotton candy milk was so good! Shatto Milk Company, our first fun find at our new location. It's no Dutch Country Farmer's Market or Georgetown Cupcakes (man, I'd get on a plane to Baltimore just for one of those!) but we were excited.
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