Big trip to ... Costco?

Sharon visited us tonight -- eating dinner, taking Cooper for ice cream, washing dishes, folding laundry, reading bedtime stories. While the five of us were at dinner, Sharon asked Katie about our weekend plans.

"We're going to Costco!" Katie answered with great enthusiasm. She then mentioned a big train and a swimming pool.

I explained that we were at Costco last week, that I didn't remember a train and that there was a hot tub, but no swimming pool.

But Katie insisted on her version of the story.

We visited a little more and then pieced it together.

Katie confused the words "Chicago" and "Costco," and her mind, I was completely wrong. In fact, we have promised a ride on the big train when we get to Chicago and a dip in the hotel swimming pool.

So, if she invites you to Costco, go! And if she invites you to Chicago, be prepared to fetch her lots of snack samples from the end of aisles.