We drove Cat to see my brother today. Where? Well... here's an honest story that my parents don't like to tell. When my brother was a teenager, he got mixed up with the wrong crowd, who did a lot of crazy things, including of course drugs. To make a long story short, he ended up in prison for the next 11 years. He's been there 6 years now and he's got just a little over 4 years left. So Cat, his girlfriend, whom he's known for about 12 years, has been coming to visit him.
A trip to visit my brother is very exhausting. You have to get there quite early as people line up at the parking lot to be the first. Since it's also a 3 hour drive, we have to leave quite early. Today, we left at about 6 am. My parents usually leave at about 4 am but it was just not going to happen.
The whole family, Owen, Oli, and I drove with Cat. We decided to leave early though so that Cat and my brother can have some alone time, which they didn't really get to have much of when they were there. We left the prison at about 12:35 PM and drove about 25 minutes into town have some English Sunday roast. It was quite nice. We were really exhausted though and Oli slept most of the time.
It was really nice. We had a few moments just to enjoy each other at the restaurant:
On the way back home, Oli just could not handle the long car ride home so we stopped by Ross to walk around. Oli sat down in the middle of the toys section and just played:
He was a bit grumpy so he didn't have a lot of tolerance for toys that were stuck in boxes.
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