A Visit from the Ruberts

We we're lucky enough to have the Ruberts come and visit. Shaunna, Russ, Lindzy, and Kaden drove out the second week of June.

Here is a quick recap of their trip as told by Whitney.

They got here on tuesday night and we had a good dinner and some good chat. We then watched mr. South Fremont and saw kaden in all his glory. That was pretty darn funny. Then next morning we had some breakfast and the ruberts headed to charleston south Carolina and spent wednesday and most of thursday looking at civil war and other early American history stuff. We made sure they left most of their luggage so they'd have I come back. The ruberts had a great time in charleston and got back late. Friday I went to work while everyone got ready then we went and had some bar b que for lunch. Then we went and toured old Salem. Uncle Russ bought the girls ice cream. My girls think Russ is about the coolest uncle ever. The ruberts had just come from Nauvoo and we decided that old Salem was the nauvoo for the Moravians. On the way home we stopped by the Krispy kreme that is near the Krispy Kreme headquarters. Then we headed to the pool for a bit. We finished the night cooking out and having a firework show thanks to Kaden and a stop at the worlds largest fireworks warehouse somewhere on their cross country journey. Saturday we had some swim practice, then headed to the mountains, we went to the old mast general store in Valle Cruisis and had lunch at a nice little park. Russ and I found some great pickled okra which we were pretty fond of. Then we went for a hike off of the blue ridge parkway. We headed home just in time to leave the younger 3 girls with a sitter while the rest of us went and got some pizza from mellow mushroom en route to bowman grey stadium to watch some minor league NASCAR. It was amazing. So hard to describe... The people the tobacco the noise the whole thing was a lot of fun. They had several different classifications of racing, but for the most part is was like a controlled demolition derby with really fast cars. My favorite moment of the night was when the guy behind us yelled 'rubb'n is race'n' as the second place guy nosed the first place guy out of control and into the infield. Well actually my favorite moment was the last race which was a chain race. They had 7 or 8 teams with 2 cars chained together. The front car had an engine but no brakes and the back car had... You guessed it, brakes and no engine. It was pretty much the coolest thing we'd ever seen. Then we went home and woke up and as quick as they came The Ruberts were gone.

I always get pretty homesick when people leave us but I wouldn't trade their visits for anything. Thanks so much Ruberts for making the trip. We love you and miss you already.