End of the school year and a road trip

Yikes! Okay, a lot's happened in the past week. It's going to take a bit to catch up...hang with me, okay? I'll go somewhat chronologically.

Last Monday, Micah finished his school year...whew. He went to work the next day and then on Wednesday, he and two friends flew from Denver to Omaha. Asher picked them up and they all crashed in Asher's room on campus. (Good thing they're teenage boys and can sleep on the floor, lol.)

Thursday morning, Asher took his last final to finish out his first year of college (yay!) then the four of them enjoyed the day in Omaha. They played some spikeball, got ice cream, wandered, watched a movie, etc. During that, I texted the four of them and offered $20 to whomever texted me a picture (taken that day) with all four of their smiling faces first. A couple of them replied fairly quickly but didn't meet the specifications. (There were some creative attempts to compile pictures and videos to get all four of them, lol...not sure what was so difficult about having all of them in the same picture.) Finally, though, Micah sent me the middle shot below and earned himself some money to cover their ice cream. :)

And then early Friday morning they all managed to get up and pack up Asher's stuff for the summer. (Fortunately, his lease actually runs through the summer and he'll be in the same room with the same roommates next school year, so he didn't have to move all of his stuff. Woohoo!) They took turns driving and made the 500ish mile drive in decent time (and safely). (That last picture is from the drive.)

Hooray for a successful first year away at college...and for friends and road trips!

And they managed to get home in time for Micah to turn right back around and head out for prom...which will be another post...