Ikea

Well, we had a great time at Ikea. We spent about 3 hours there which is about average for us. The trip started off with a bang literally. I (Jon) was unloading the seats from the mini van when I dropped the chair on my toe. While that was happening Mike hit his head on the van, and a little later Joanna hit her head getting into the van. It actually was very funny, it was typical start to a Talley/Gurr outing.

After Ikea, we went to Centennial Park and let the Talley kids play in the Olympic water rings. We had never seen so many kids in one place. It was extremely hot outside so the kids loved it. The rings are in the ground and have tons of holes that shoot out fountains of water. Mike and Jenn's oldest son Nathan( he is 7 years old) was looking over one of the holes when it shot out a stream of water and hit him right in the face. It was awesome, you could tell he was not expecting it to happen. Because the water hit him mostly in the eyes it took him a second to be able see clearly. After the water park, we ate dinner at the CNN building and then headed home. About 40 miles from our home we drove through a big lightning storm. We were driving through mostly farm country so you could see the lightning everywhere. At one point, lightning seemed to strike only a few feet from our cars. Mike and Jenn who were ahead of us called us jokingly and asked if lightning had struck their car because all they saw was orange. It was pretty wild.