As far as our trip goes, we started out at T's cousin's place just south of Springfield, IL. It's always fun to stop there or for them to stop by us. We went into Springfield one day and saw the Lincoln Memorial tomb and rubbed his nose on the copper bust in front of it. It's supposed to be good luck. Yeah, whatever. But we did it and took pix with our cell phones. We also drove around spitting cherry pits out the windows and we stoppped and got some good frozen custard. From there we headed to mid-WI.
We stayed at a campground on a small lake, J went fishing with Bampa, the girls rented a paddle boat and we visited with friends and family and went to the church where T and I got married. Of course we went to the cheese factory for cheese and then around the corner to the meat locker for brats. Good stuff. The girls found this lily on their paddle boat excursion.
This is an awesome sunset over the little lake. Love this pic.
We stopped at a store in the middle of nowhere that I remember as a small convenience store. It's much larger now. They had these HUGE Campfire marshmallows that are like 3 marshmallows in one. They were so much fun. A and E tried to put them in their mouths and say "pudgy bunny" (or something about a bunny).
From there we headed up to Door County. As I mentioned we got to meet Sarah and kids from 5frozenchamorros on our way. We had a nice time with them and got settled at our campsite. This campground had huge water slides, volleyball area, trampoline basketball, huge jumping "thing", mini golf, horseshoes, etc. J didn't want to leave to go do anything. The girls spent a lot of time practicing soccer. We went cherry picking the first day and then went to a maritime museum.
He looks like he's having fun.
We went to a dairy farm and ate ice cream and watched them milk the cows. They also had a petting zoo type area. I love goats. They're so funny.
And they had miniature horses. I love them, too. When Lady goes (she's around 24) I would definitely consider a mini horse.
Some pretty WI landscape.
And in the barn was a mini with a baby. Is that not just too precious?
One day we drove up to a state park and walked along the shoreline.
We visited a light house,
and dunked our toes into chilly Lake Michigan.
J built a "sandman", like a snowman only out of sand.
We also climbed an observation tower to look at the sights.
Then we went to a Door County fish boil. It was awesome and entertaining. They boil water in huge pots over an open fire and use baskets to lower potatoes and onions into the water. Once those have cooked for a while they use another basket to lower fish into the water. The only seasoning is salt. Just before the fish is done they throw kerosene on to the fire to boil the pot over and it gets rid of the fish oil in the water. We have some nice video of it that I may try to post some time. Everything was so good. There are a few restaurants that do this and I would recommend Peletier's in Fish Creek.
Thursday evening we spent with T's older brother and his family. Our niece has three little boys that we had never met. Here are some cousins.
I don't have much for pix after this. Sorry. I'll try to get some from my dad. We headed to the Racine area on Friday and went to the fair that evening. J got the whole fair experience; rides, food, too much rides and food and stopping at a bar at 10:00p.m. to use the facilities (where else in small town WI on a Friday night when you need a bathroom-bar of course) and puking in the car. He actually loved it until he went on a ride that goes upside down. T and I were watching a truck and tractor pull (which A said was just like after school where we live with everyone revving their truck engines and showing off) and J was with "my blogging cousin". Their daughter and her friends decided to go on this ride so J did too. Then he told them he was hungry so they bought him a burger. Bad idea. And the rest is history. We were bad about pix but at least we got J on his first ride. He has the ball cap on.
We had an excellent day the next day at my cousin's house and there were 93 people there for a family reunion on my mom's side. The kids were all very good about helping to get ready and we had a nice time, good food and good fun. J stayed in the pool all afternoon and evening and only got out for food. He got out one time and was walking around and someone asked him what he needed. He said he needed meat. Of course, meat is his favorite thing to eat. T and the girls played volley ball with a large group. Most of us sat around and talked.
One day we drove up to a state park and walked along the shoreline.
We visited a light house,
and dunked our toes into chilly Lake Michigan.
J built a "sandman", like a snowman only out of sand.
We also climbed an observation tower to look at the sights.
Then we went to a Door County fish boil. It was awesome and entertaining. They boil water in huge pots over an open fire and use baskets to lower potatoes and onions into the water. Once those have cooked for a while they use another basket to lower fish into the water. The only seasoning is salt. Just before the fish is done they throw kerosene on to the fire to boil the pot over and it gets rid of the fish oil in the water. We have some nice video of it that I may try to post some time. Everything was so good. There are a few restaurants that do this and I would recommend Peletier's in Fish Creek.
Thursday evening we spent with T's older brother and his family. Our niece has three little boys that we had never met. Here are some cousins.
I don't have much for pix after this. Sorry. I'll try to get some from my dad. We headed to the Racine area on Friday and went to the fair that evening. J got the whole fair experience; rides, food, too much rides and food and stopping at a bar at 10:00p.m. to use the facilities (where else in small town WI on a Friday night when you need a bathroom-bar of course) and puking in the car. He actually loved it until he went on a ride that goes upside down. T and I were watching a truck and tractor pull (which A said was just like after school where we live with everyone revving their truck engines and showing off) and J was with "my blogging cousin". Their daughter and her friends decided to go on this ride so J did too. Then he told them he was hungry so they bought him a burger. Bad idea. And the rest is history. We were bad about pix but at least we got J on his first ride. He has the ball cap on.
We had an excellent day the next day at my cousin's house and there were 93 people there for a family reunion on my mom's side. The kids were all very good about helping to get ready and we had a nice time, good food and good fun. J stayed in the pool all afternoon and evening and only got out for food. He got out one time and was walking around and someone asked him what he needed. He said he needed meat. Of course, meat is his favorite thing to eat. T and the girls played volley ball with a large group. Most of us sat around and talked. We drove all the way home on Sunday and then Big Mama's transmission went out. We are so thankful that we got all the way home before that happened.
This week has been back to school and hot, hot, hot. We are trying to get ready for our family "theme party". This year it's Super Heroes. We so wish that R and JT could be here but he wasn't able to get leave. We'll try to have fun without them. That's it for now.
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