the night before

the kids got home from school, we gave grandmom orientation (where to find the chicken nuggets and spagettios....) and then, we were on our way.

it's always hard to leave my kids...this is the longest we will have been away from any of them, let alone ALL of them.

so we started our anniversary trip off right with a double date with our friends the jalandoni's...
but before we could head to dinner, we needed 'pretty toes' for our barefoot beach vow renewal...

here we are at the semi-local nail place that tara took us too....the nice folks there were really perplexed that jason was getting a pedicure, and even more perplexed that he was having a colored polish. sheesh, what's with these people - they've never seen a guy pick orange polish for his toes before? tara waited patiently taking pictures while jason and i had our feet beautified.

then is was off to dinner. we've never been to famous dave's bbq before, and there's one very near tara's abode, so that's where we ate...omg, i LOVED it! we split the 'feast', served on the lid of a metal garbage can, with a roll of paper towels on the table for your napkins.

it was a great group dinner, and then a quick trip to coldstone creamery for dessert, and off to beddie bye to get ready for a day of travel. a LONG day of travel.

many thanks to neil and tara for letting us crash for the night and dragging their tired butts out of bed to take us to the airport at o'dark thirty...