Our 2009 Vacation

We were on vacation last week. We decided that we watned to camp for the majority, but also knew that we wanted to spend time doing some fun things with the kids... and also fit some doctor, dentist and hair appts in the schedule... oh and we also wanted the kids to be able to go to their last baseball games and some of their first soccer practices... wow, what a week!

We started out on Friday, July 3rd by camping. We camped until Sunday when I decided that I needed to clean my house at some point, so we headed home for a few hours... I cleaned and then we went back to the camper to stay Sunday night.

On Monday we rode 4-wheelers all day. I had to rent one for the day since I seem to be the only one in the family that doesn't have a 4-wheeler. We had a great time... except that Todd had problems with his and we weren't sure we would make the 2 hr trip back to Darlington. We did make it back and unsure what was wrong with his... Cole, Zoe & I continued our trip south the South Wayne. We ended the day back at the camper to rest.

We headed home Tuesday morning as I had a hair appt and Cole had soccer practice. Since it was raining after my hair appt... we headed to Freeport to watch Ice Age 3 - in 3D. Cole did have practice that night... a little wet, but they did great.

Wednesday started out with Cole's last baseball game... it was cancelled due to rain. We had doctor, dentist and chiropractic appts in the morning and then headed to Chuck E. Cheese in the afternoon. The kids had a blast! Zoe's soccer practice was cancelled that night due to being too wet.

On Thursday, Zoe had her last T-Ball game in the morning and then we headed the Wild West in Union, IL. My helper this summer, Cheyanne, also went with us... the kids always say they want her to go with as they really have a great time with her. The Wild West was really fun for the kids and a little amusing for us. We seen 2 shows there... they were pretty entertaining. The kids loved the rope lasso, gun fighting and humor in the shows. There are many games there for the kids to enjoy such as sling shot, shooting gallery, mining, bullseye, pony rides, petting zoo, train ride and canoe ride. They also had a jail that would lock up the kids and have them sing to be released. Old time pictures were also available for purchase... Cheyanne and Zoe had a picture taken and I will post the picture in another entry.

When we were done at the Wild West for the day, we headed back to the camper. Friday morning we went to the Dells to Knuckleheads Indoor Amusement Park. We spent all day here... some of the rids were very deceiving in looks. We all had fun... go karts, roller coaster, 4D theater, arcade, bumper cars, tornado, bowling, himalaya, flying tigers, baja buggy, ball-o-city and spring ride. We rode many rides and the theater multiple times. The kids loved the cosmic bowling and bumper cars. That night we also went to see the Rick Wilcox Magic Show. This was a very good show and the kids loved it! They both wanted to go up on the stage to help.

We spent Saturday morning at the camper and headed home in the afternoon. I had a visitation to attend that night. The kids were exhausted and needed the down time.

Sunday morning we got ready and headed to a Milwaukee Brewers game. The kids really enjoyed it, but the Brewers weren't doing very good... until we left. They were happy that they go to eat a baseball hot dog and popcorn. We headed home after the 7th inning... we all needed another week to relax and get back into the groove, but unfortunately Monday morning came way too fast...