We got to the St Louis airport just in time to get on the plane. It was crowded! There was someone in the middle seat... thankfully he was a very nice man who apparently enjoyed being spit upon by baby raspberries. Avery was SO loud on the flight talking and bababa-ing! But not one cry. Then we had a two hour layover in Detroit. I bought a sandwich, found an empty gate, and laid a blanket on the floor and sat there with Avery. She had her sippy cup and a bunch of toys and enjoyed watching everyone. She was so quiet, til we got on the next plane then she started talking again!
After we were picked up from the airport, we went to lunch in town. Mom and Paul couldn't believe how she just sat in her stroller occupying herself while we ate. We went back to their house and I slept for a little while (after three hours sleep, I needed a nap) with Avery. The next morning we went visiting Del and Flo, their neighbors. They were duly impressed with Avery's beauty and intelligence. Then we went to the Whaleback Inn, where everyone is staying for the wedding and really loved it. Aunt Linda and Michael came up that afternoon and Grandma Timock came over to meet Avery for the first time. They stayed the night and the next morning Linda, mom, Avery and I went to do wedding things. We went to the house where we're going to get married, looked at a picture of the cake, looked at some flowers, and even looked at some dresses... then we went and ate BBQ at the place we're going to get after-wedding food from. Everything was perfect.
That evening we went and took Paul out for Father's day. Before dinner we went to New Kids In Town where Grampy bought Avery her first swimming suit (her first lesson was the next day). He also bought her a beautiful pink hat and a quacking duck. We went to a really fancy restaurant and put Avery in her stroller right next to the table. The waitress went nuts over her. The food was great and Avery was really well-behaved. It was funny, though... we thought the place was a little deserted until we went to leave we saw that people were being seated on the other side of the restaurant. That side was full! I saw a man walk in, look at us with a baby and nod his head toward the other side of the restaurant. Those people didn't know what they were missing, I tell ya!
Our trip home was just as uneventful as our trip there. We stopped over in Minneapolis and gave Avery her fifth state she's ever been in. Jamie was there to meet us and we stopped at Jack in the Box for tacos on the way home, because he was so good to be our shuttle! We both missed him very much!
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