easily the best week of my life

sometimes, i just wish i could stop time and make something last a whole lot longer than it actually does. and if i actually could, this week would have lasted forever.

k, so here's a rundown of what happened.
saturday night around, ohh, 11:20 pm: picked cody up from the airport with mom and jackson. i was so happy to see him i just couldn't stop smiling.

sunday: we went to church and heard a phenomenal musical number by caroline and robbie bullough. caroline was generous enough to fill in for me in primary, so cody and i went to sunday school together and then split up for the last hour. went home and went over to potter's bridge and the trail, just to show him around and let him see the noblesville landmark that anyone from out of town has to see.

we went back for sunday dinner with the fam, then sat around for awhile, watching the olympics and then caroline came over to hang out since she was leaving the next day for utah. so, we sat around (while my worlds collided) and watched some more olympics, then made cody bust out the dvd of his high school's performance of oklahoma so that we could watch his solo part. he is actually quite musically inclined, and even though i'd already seen it, it was still fun to watch. :]

monday: went and picked cody up from a family in the ward's house (where he was staying for the duration of his visit) and sat around the house for awhile, watching the olympics and such. then we ran to wal-mart to get a few things and ventured out to the new mall in noblesville to see the batman movie in the imax theater. it was definitely worth the $12.50 admission. then we headed back to the house because cody had a 4:20 tee time for a golf outing with my dad (cody just LOVES to golf...which is the understatement of the century). and my dad beat him this time, although to be fair, cody did have a few disadvantages.

tuesday: we got free tickets to the state fair from the newspaper and headed down there to see what kind of things they had deep fried this year. i had been to the state fair once, two summers ago, so i had kind of forgotten about some of it. we wandered around, rode the ferris wheel, looked at some cows and horses, and ate plenty of unhealthy fair food. i had almost an entire elephant ear and cody was bold enough to try deep-fried pepsi (welcome to the indiana state fair). he described it as "donut holes with pepsi sprayed on them."

on the ferris wheel

view of some of the fair from the ferris wheel

deep-fried pepsi

wednesday: the big day! since we had nothing else really to do, today ended up being the day that i took cody for his first steak n shake experience. it went pretty well. he went with the classic steak n shake meal (double steakburger, two sides, and a shake) while i went for the frisco melt platter. mmm...yummy yummy. i think that he enjoyed it, which definitely made me happy. after, we went over and wandered around the sporting goods store in town so that cody could drool over the golf clubs and hockey sticks.

we headed back home and mom put us to work and had us make the traditional first day of school cookies. peanut butter chocolate chip this year. they turned out to be the best cookies in the history of ever. i mean, how could they not be? WE made them :]. plus, we jammed out to christmas music as we made them. later, for dinner, mom ordered pizza and we took it over and had a picnic at morse beach.

thursday: after discovering the previous day that the actual batmobile from the new batman movies was at the indianapolis children's museum, there was no question what we would be doing this day. mom somehow managed to score discount tickets through AAA, so cody and i piled into little red (my car) and headed down to indy. we got there, ate lunch, and immediately headed for the batmobile. cody drooled over it for awhile and we took a couple pictures, then went to wander around the rest of the museum. we went back once, for a demo or something about the actual car, and then once more to take pictures since there had been kids in the way the first time.

so then we headed out and after a bit of 'exploring' indianapolis, we went to the indianapolis motor speedway museum since i guess thats a necessary stop for everyone that comes to indiana from out of state. so we went in and oohed and aahed over all the cars and took pictures (of course).

then we headed home and sat around for awhile, then headed over to the city park and just walked and talked for awhile, then sat and talked for awhile. then at midnight, i took him over to the house he was staying at, but the door was locked and neither of us wanted to knock on the door, so he just came back and crashed on our couch for the night. then his flight left around noon today and i've missed him ever since. all in all, definitely the best week ever. :]

-sarah