We have instituted a Summer Family Vacation.
This is based on two ideas: our kids usually come home at Thanksgiving for the long weekend, and that is wonderful - we always have a good time. But when our kids were growing up, my cousin started a Family Campout weekend where we would all have a time set aside every year to stay in touch and spend time together. Since our kids live so far apart, I wanted to make a summer vacation where we spent time together, too.
We started last year and had a good time. D-i-L found a house on the Mississippi River, centrally located to all of us. We ate, we drank, we took road trips (pictured) and we played games. This will forever be known as "the year of the jet-propelled poop". Don't ask... just laugh along with us!
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| Dublin Square Irish Pub and Eatery, LaCrosse, WI |
This year, we also rented a house on the Mississippi, but on Lake Pepin. It was even better! Nice house, neat town, close to beach. We ate, we drank, we played games and puzzles (in more ways than one) and took road trips. Here is an overview:
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| Eating |
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| Bike riding |
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| Making S'Mores... or just eating huge marshmallows! |
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| playground adventures |
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| Red Wing... world's largest boot! |
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| Visiting National Eagle Center |
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| Eagles are about the size of a 2-year-old. |
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| Puzzle |
Ok, so WHY the picture of a partially worked puzzle? Well, this is probably THIS year's "funny vacation story"....We had been working a puzzle that was in the house, but was impossible, and therefore, not a lot of fun. So I found this puzzle while shopping at the Uff Da Scandinavian shop in Red Wing. Since the weather was just TOO beautiful to be indoors, we were working it out on the deck. It was a bit humid, and a puzzle piece stuck to my elbow, and was promptly dropped NOT onto the floor, but between a large crack in the deck flooring to the ground below! I could SEE it, but there was no way to crawl under the deck to retrieve it. All of us pondered and experimented but we finally came up with a plan.... a stick was found that would fit through the crack, onto which a piece of (chewed) chewing gum was stuck. I maneuvered the stick to the puzzle piece where it stuck to the gum., and Aaron (with his amazing chip stick skills) grabbed the puzzle piece and twisted it so it could be worked back up through the narrow crack. So now you know why I had to include this unusual photo of a partial puzzle and some silly sticks!
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