Today was a VERY long day!  Sarah found out that the niece (I think) of some friends of ours is in the Marching Band at BYU and is the piccolo section leader!  She was in town visiting and so Sarah and Kristen went up to meet and talk with her about expectations, etc.  What a great way to start off!

Tonight, I drove Brittany and a few of her church friends up to Kenosha Wisconsin to a dance held by the Kenosha Stake.  This was organized by the son of the Stake President, who, it just so happens is one of the guys she met at EFY and (as discussed in a previous blog post) is the son of the friends of ours who used to live next door when we were in the Naperville 1st Ward.  🙂  The girls were so giddy on the way up that it almost drove me crazy!  🙂

They had an “awesome, amazing, incredible, and wonderful” time at the dance (in their words), while I drove around the countryside, stopped for some junk food, and then went back to the church to take a nap in preparation for the long drive home.  The dance finished at 10pm, but we didn’t leave until about 10:30pm because they were being so social and couldn’t tear themselves away from the guys.  😐

On the way home, we got totally jammed by Chicago O’Hare Airport by construction and traffic.  By this time, it was around midnight and we couldn’t believe how many cars were out!  We didn’t get everyone home and back to our house until after 2am!  We are really going to feel it for the next day or so!  😐