Blooming in Wonderland: Scary Stories, Giggles, and ZZzzss

Do you remember those times when you were younger and all your family was at someone's house for a get together and by the end of the night, you and all your cousins ended up in someone's bedroom all smooshed onto one bed...giggling, pushing each other off, and trying to scare each other?

As a kid, I experienced many times like those and...miracle of miracles...I got to experience that again this past weekend. As I mentioned before, my sister and I left on Thursday night for a little getaway to my mom and step-dad's house. My 10 year old twin step-sisters were there, along with my older step-sister's two little daughters.

On Saturday night, we had a movie marathon and once we got to the third movie, I decided I was all movied out and laid down on the bed in my mom's room. The lights were out and I didn't think anyone had seen me go in, but after about 5 minutes, my sister wandered in...said she didn't want to watch the movie either, and crawled into the bed as well. It was only about a matter of 15 minutes before the twins and the nieces came in...effectively ending the silence. Ha.

I was laying horizontally on the very end of the bed...my sister was toward the top...and the kids were everywhere in between. LoL. The lights were still out and it wasn't long before Jess started trying to scare the twins by telling stories of a "red-eyed" girl who lived in the closet and in the wall. Haha. This of course sent everyone scurrying under the covers...and the fight for the blankets commenced. I was nearly pushed off the bed about twice and got my head squashed too many times to count. Haha. When that was over the twins starting talking about somebody from school whom they called..."chump butt". My sister and I nearly fell off the bed again...this time from cracking up. Go ahead Blog Land...say "Chump...Butt" out loud. Now try not to giggle...pretty impossible, eh? Ha. We continued to giggle until someone came up with the idea to have a contest to see who could pretend to be asleep the longest. Yup. You know what happened....next thing I know my step-dad is coming in the door flipping on the lights and yelling "wake up!". Hahaha. Isn't it funny how that happens....everyone's laughing and talking and then all of a sudden bam! Everyone's knocked out. LoL.

Anyway. That was just one part of a very fun weekend. We went to the Indianapolis Zoo on Friday...where I pet a SHARK!!! We went to this amazingly fun water park called Splash Island on Saturday...it has a lazy river!!! And on Sunday my step-dad grilled!!! In between all these fun activities the kids kept us in stitches pretty much the whole time. They are crazy fun.

In short, it was a ridiculously fun weekend and just what the doctor ordered.