A WICKED TRIP

This really was the most WICKED trip I've ever done, and no I'm not being "Utah" here. So I got to Indiana (my bros.house) Thursday evening. Then the next day we piled into our car again and drove another 3.5 hours to Columbus, Ohio. Why, you ask would I choose to do this? Simple because we had AWESOME tickets to see WICKED, witch I am in love with anyway. To make it even cooler our cousins Christeena Michelle Riggs, who is also married to my bros. best friend, was starring in the lead role of Galinda! After the show she took us on a backstage tour and we got to meet the cast. The only bummer was they had to be out of costume for the pics. We then went and hung out at her hotel and got to talk with some cast members a little more. My sister in law Tracey and I decided we are totally WICKED groupies now. it was an amazing night. I can't remember a time as an adult when I have felt so giddy.Emma and I were poka-dot girls
Here is Christeena and I backstage
Coleen Sexton played Elphaba and was amazing. When we got to meet her I felt so silly because I was totally star struck.
Me and my big brother Glenn
Emma, Shailey, Christeena, me and Tracey
When we headed back to the hotel that night we asked the girls what they thought. Shailey said,"I just stayed up till 1 am eating pizza and cake with Galinda, What could be better that that?" Well put.

We only thought it fare to take the boys to the Columbus zoo after being couped up in a hotel room with a babysitter the night before. It was fun, but we were all so tired. The zoo's claim to fame is they have the longest snake in captivity, 31 kids long. Oh, a snake, my favorite! (sarcasm here) Luckily it was a coiled up ,so we didn't have any nightmares. The part I liked best was there was a baby monkey that had been born that morning. It was so cute and orange, who knew they came out orange. If you ask Brody or his cousin Jonas what their favorite animal was they will tell you the train. I think Tate would say the petting zoo. He was so cute with the animals.




No Ostlund trip could be complete with out a little karaoke. I loved that Jonas knew the words to the Greatest American Hero theme song. Brody had fun shaking the tambourine and humming Thomas songs into the mic.




Glenn had to go back to Japan on Monday morning. That was one of the main reasons I came to visit was to spend time with the family before they move to Japan. They leave next month and will live there for THREE YEARS! They will come back to visit at Christmas and in the summers,but just to know they are that far away makes me sad. It is a great opprotunity for Glenn and it will be so cool for his family to exprience. But we will miss them.
We had to make the most of our time together. Back in Indiana we went to the pool, the Library, and shopping, of corse.( I found a totally cute sweater vest from Old Navy for 47 cents!)




Brody was being pouty and didn't want to smile. Showing off our wicked shirts.

It was a really fun trip as you can tell from my super long post. I am so glad to have these memories, but I must say after all that traveling, 5 states in two days, and the boys on crazy schedules, There really is no place like home!