This past weekend, the boys and took a trip to see my sweet friend Meredith. She and I became fast friends at the beginning of 6th grade and we're very close until she moved away our sophomore year of high school. I was devastated to see her go, but we have kept in touch all these years and I love her dearly! She now lives in Tennessee, and it's been a few years since we've seen each other, so we decided to meet 1/2 way in Little Rock for the weekend. The boys and I left Granbury about 12:30.
The nav system said it was a 5 1/2 hour drive, so we decided to stop and eat a leisurely lunch. Pei Wei was the pick and Hudson loves his lettuce wraps. 
About an hour after lunch we stopped at QT to fill up with gas and the boys got a drink for the road. Hudson chose a slushy which he promptly dropped and made a huge mess in the middle of the aisle. Sticky, freezing slushy juice went all over my feet and legs. Ewwwww. The sweet guy at QT told Hudson to get himself a new slushy and they would take care of the clean-up. All was well again in the world.
I had to make a detour and pick up a canvas I had bought in Garland. It cost us some extra minutes/miles, but we were so close to the store and I didn't want to have to come back later! It's so funny because the lady that owns it is from Granbury and grew up there. Crazy.
Anyhoo, I think our summer road trips have broken the boys in well. They are great travelers. They played video games and chatted. We stopped in Texarkana for dinner at one of their favorites...
We got to Little Rock a little after 8, so with the meal stops and canvas pick up sidetrack, it added a little bit. The boys quickly settled into "their" beds...
Reed hates sleeping with Hudson, so I told them that I would sleep with one kid one night and the other kid the next night. I woke up Saturday morning totally understanding why Reed hates sleeping with him! He moves a LOT and is always flailing his limbs about. I woke up with his leg flopped over my waist.
We got up and showered and headed to breakfast. Meredith also has two boys very close in age to my boys, so it worked out great! We all ate breakfast together and then headed out to Pinnacle Mountain State Park. There was only a little bit of fall color, but the park was just beautiful anyway. The boys played on the playground for a bit and then we headed up the trail to the summit. The lady at the visitors center told us it was a 1 1/2 mile round trip and Meredith and I thought "No Problem!" Hudson picked himself up a walking stick and was ready to rock and roll.
We started to hike and it was pretty good... Except the top 1/4 of the trail was less "trail" and more "climbing over boulders". We were glad we made it to
the top though.
The boys were exhausted, but they all said it was worth it.
Meredith took the two younger boys over to another side to check out the view and she said that Hudson asked Todd "Would you rather live up here or be a millionaire?" Todd answered "Live here." Hudson said "Me too. Cause millionaires can't buy this and they can't buy brothers and they can't but cousins." Sweet boy!
Going down was better than going up, but still precarious. Hudson slipped and fell about 5 times coming down. It was good to be done. :) Here we are on the trail... Yes, I'm wearing Toms. That definitely added to the slipping around on the rocks.
Meredith provided a yummy picnic when we got back down- a turkey sandwich has never tasted that good! The boys spent another long while playing on the playground...
and then we explored more of the park.
We left the park and headed out for some ice cream at a cute little place in town. They had this bench outside and I wanted to get a nice picture of the boys... well, yeah.
Love them so!
After ice cream, we were going to go see an exhibit at the museum, but it was almost closed so we explored this neat old iron bridge next to it.
And rolled down the giant hills. :)
We came back to the hotel and had a pizza party in the room and played games. It was a super fun day.
We got up Sunday morning, ate breakfast together and then headed our separate ways (and I had planned on getting a picture of me & Meredith and totally forgot... Boo). It was so good to see Meredith and her boys and we are all looking forward to doing it again!
