Sledge Family Road Trip 2016

Next stop: Grandma and Grandpa's! Michael and I left the kids overnight (first time we've ever done that since the kids were born -- crazy!) and headed to Iowa City to see old college friends.

Pool time with Grandma and Grandpa.

When in Iowa during July, one must pose with corn.

DQ, of course.

Park time.

Twenty years ago, Michael and I shared an apartment for the summer in this building.

Meeting up again in Iowa City the next day, and headed to...

Omaha! Where we celebrated Troy's birthday a few days early.

Aunt Rachele then took us to this really cool historical museum.

Spot the trolley driver...

Part of a cool shipwreck exhibit. 

A few last photos before we had to go...

Denver! The boys posed outside of Coors Field.

On the road again...at a hotel somewhere in Idaho.

Crossing the Columbia River in Oregon...only a few more hours until we'd be in Seattle.

Dinner with Kate, Jessica and Henry at X's favorite sports bar/restaurant down the street from their place.

We walked to a new neighborhood bookstore the next day.

Watched the Blue Angels from the front porch.

The jets came really close to their house!

And while the boys were at the Mariners game, Clare learned all about Pokemon Go from Jessica.

Celebrating Ken Griffey Jr. and seeing his number retired. 

Seventeen days after we left: home home HOME! 

Xander's ice cream helmet collection from all the ballparks on the trip...