While Doug and I spent the majority of Saturday planting flowers and Sunday catching up on other projects, the Heinisch children were making the best of the beautiful weekend with non-stop activities. Brett was invited to go to the lantern festival in Indianapolis with Sean, Jovie and Norman. He was thankful that one of his co-workers agreed to take his shift at Storage Express on Saturday so that he could go with his friends to enjoy this wonderful celebration of life. He had been invited to go with them two years ago, but weather cancelled the festival and then last year it was postponed once again due to the pandemic. He sent us a picture well after dark with all of the lanterns lighting up the sky. It looked beautiful.
The first half of Cal's weekend took him to Iowa for the tax portion of the CPA. It was his second attempt and although it would be several weeks before he found out how he scored, he did feel better about it than he did the first time he took it. He then spent the rest of the weekend celebrating with his friends from Chicago many of whom also went to IU with him. Meg and Nick left late Friday afternoon to visit his brother, Trent, in the Detroit area. It was their first time leaving the state of Indiana since March of 2020 and they thoroughly enjoyed their time in Michigan. They spent time at the farmer's market that resembled the one in Bloomington only adding in some food to try and even alcoholic drinks for the over 21 crowd. Lunch was at a renovated shipping center where each shipping pod offered a different type of food including one of Meg's favorites - Indian cuisine. It was fun listening to all that they found to do in Detroit.
Cameron stayed in Northern Indiana all weekend, but still found plenty to do. Besides his Friday night band concert with a stop at Culver's, he attended the Bethany softball game on Saturday with Austin, played two rounds of golf with his grandparents including a season low 79, took a long walk with Meg and finally cleaned out the van. He was disappointed that his friends had to cancel plans on Sunday night to finish homework, but still found time to catch up with them on the phone. Although he swore that he would never play "Oh Hell" again after the bad luck with cards that he had on Saturday night, I know that he enjoyed it all the same.
The best part of the weekend for me was knowing that all of the Heinisch children were enjoying so many of the social activities that weren't available to them last year. Twelve months ago no one was really sure what the summer of 2020 would bring. Now everyone in the Heinisch family is really looking forward to the upcoming summer and this weekend was a nice preview of that.
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