back to indy

zachs last strech of night shift provided the boys and i a chance to visit my family in indy for a few days.
on tuesday we picked up aunt abby and headed down town to meet my dad & kathy for lunch. we went to the city market. so cool. like a giant food court all sorts of places to each. we ate at the market. they had all kinds of produce, a deli and more. it was a great healthy alternative to some of the places and was really yummy! the roasted vegetable sandwich was awesome. in fact it may have been the first time i have had eggplant that i know of. and since then i have bought eggplant and roasted it myself! Yum! i love roasted veggies. the boys got a tour of my dads office and got to meet lots of people - he is in a new office since last time we visited.

then ab, the boys & i headed off to the zoo! we had so much fun. we took the train ride of course - my boys hardly know a trip to the zoo without riding the train. we saw the elephant show - ty rode the pony and the horse - ike rode the pony twice - they took two rides on the carousel - we got to go in with the goats and pet them - i've never done that before in all my trips to the zoo. ike kept thinking one of the goats that was missing its horns was a pony. he kept saying "ride that one!" :)

after the zoo we headed back to papa's- we all took a trip to wally world (papa needed some veggies for our dinner) ty and ike picked out snacks and juice boxes for papa to buy. dad made us some yummy dinner - cashew chicken - but way better than you would get as chinese takeout!

then we headed to aunt katie and uncle neals new homestead! it is really nice! so much room! the boys had fun playing with cousin clayton - they all tried out kate and neals new bath tub. i enjoyed my time visiting with katie. and of course we got to see nana! mom came over to katies so we could visit with her too and i didn't have to run everywhere why we were in town. katie had to get a hair cut wednesday morning so i had the luxury of watching my three and kate's one. Four boys under 4! haha! actually they were all rather good. We stayed a couple nights at katies house.
On thursday we met nana and aunt abby at target for a little shopping! what's a trip to indy without shopping at target? :) then off to babies r us. then down to the court to meet papa. (he had hearings that day!) we had dinner with papa and then stayed the night there. dad & kathy both went in late to work the next day so they could hang with us a little while longer. then we headed back southwest.