Thursday, July 30, 2009
Point Beach
This week our family took a 2 day vacation to Point Beach State Park near Two Rivers, WI. Here are the highlights...
Tuesday evening we got there around 6 pm, started a fire and set up camp. We grilled brats and hot dogs, toasted marshmallows, and got a bit annoyed with our neighbors who were listening to soul music REALLY loud. We decided this campground had camp sites entirely too close together. Doug asked a child, who will remain nameless, to put the coolers and food tote in the car before going to bed. That didn't happen. I was awoken 3 times during the night by a raccoon and another animal I couldn't identify who were raiding our food. They made off with the 3 hot dogs we didn't grill, finished off a package of lunch meat, tore up some hot dog buns, and completely hiked off with an entire package of marshmallows and a whole loaf of bread. I don't know how they managed that. I didn't realize they were smart enough to open up coolers and flip top lids on totes. Stinking little critters! Lesson learned.
Wednesday after a yummy breakfast of hash browns, sausage, eggs, and juice we went to Two Rivers. We enjoyed a museum of the history of local commercial fishing and local shipwrecks. Then we went to the Washington House Museum. It is an old hotel converted into a museum with an ice cream shop included. Here we learned the 3 most important things about Two Rivers: 1. It is the home of the ice cream sundae. It was invented here in 1881. 2. It is the coldest town in WI with an average summer temperature of 72 degrees. 3. Charlton Heston's wife was from Two Rivers. Apparently that is still an important fact. The best part was the ice cream at the end of our tour. Yum! After the museum we went back to camp and had lunch and a nap. We needed one after being woke up by the beasts during the night. Then we donned our swimming suits and walked over to Lake Michigan. We had fun playing in the sand and water. I didn't care for the water much because it was FREEZING and looked like pea soup, the algae was so thick. The kids had fun playing in it though and all had a good time. Alayna stayed at camp to shower and nap. Wednesday night we made dutch oven potatoes and did some reading and relaxing around the fire. Everyone had to have showers after being at the lake. We made sure to get all food put in the van this time and the night was much more peaceful. Our neighbors across the way didn't fare so good though. Apparently they all got too drunk to remember the night before where the animals got into our food and theirs. They left food out AGAIN and AGAIN the animals came. So they were up during the night chasing animals out of their campsite. He he.
Thursday morning we got up and cooked another yummy breakfast. Right when we were finishing up the rain came. I decided it was a good time to pack up and get outta there. So we worked quickly in the mud and rain and had everything packed in about an hour.
It was a fun trip, and relaxing as well. Its always great to get out of the normal daily routine and spend time together as a family.
Tuesday evening we got there around 6 pm, started a fire and set up camp. We grilled brats and hot dogs, toasted marshmallows, and got a bit annoyed with our neighbors who were listening to soul music REALLY loud. We decided this campground had camp sites entirely too close together. Doug asked a child, who will remain nameless, to put the coolers and food tote in the car before going to bed. That didn't happen. I was awoken 3 times during the night by a raccoon and another animal I couldn't identify who were raiding our food. They made off with the 3 hot dogs we didn't grill, finished off a package of lunch meat, tore up some hot dog buns, and completely hiked off with an entire package of marshmallows and a whole loaf of bread. I don't know how they managed that. I didn't realize they were smart enough to open up coolers and flip top lids on totes. Stinking little critters! Lesson learned.
Wednesday after a yummy breakfast of hash browns, sausage, eggs, and juice we went to Two Rivers. We enjoyed a museum of the history of local commercial fishing and local shipwrecks. Then we went to the Washington House Museum. It is an old hotel converted into a museum with an ice cream shop included. Here we learned the 3 most important things about Two Rivers: 1. It is the home of the ice cream sundae. It was invented here in 1881. 2. It is the coldest town in WI with an average summer temperature of 72 degrees. 3. Charlton Heston's wife was from Two Rivers. Apparently that is still an important fact. The best part was the ice cream at the end of our tour. Yum! After the museum we went back to camp and had lunch and a nap. We needed one after being woke up by the beasts during the night. Then we donned our swimming suits and walked over to Lake Michigan. We had fun playing in the sand and water. I didn't care for the water much because it was FREEZING and looked like pea soup, the algae was so thick. The kids had fun playing in it though and all had a good time. Alayna stayed at camp to shower and nap. Wednesday night we made dutch oven potatoes and did some reading and relaxing around the fire. Everyone had to have showers after being at the lake. We made sure to get all food put in the van this time and the night was much more peaceful. Our neighbors across the way didn't fare so good though. Apparently they all got too drunk to remember the night before where the animals got into our food and theirs. They left food out AGAIN and AGAIN the animals came. So they were up during the night chasing animals out of their campsite. He he.
Thursday morning we got up and cooked another yummy breakfast. Right when we were finishing up the rain came. I decided it was a good time to pack up and get outta there. So we worked quickly in the mud and rain and had everything packed in about an hour.
It was a fun trip, and relaxing as well. Its always great to get out of the normal daily routine and spend time together as a family.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
2 of my favorite places; my parents home and Sugar Bowl
Mom Lavold
Cute cousins Alayna and Lauren. Lauren came and slept over at Nanny and Grandpa's house one night and went shopping with us the following day. Thanks for hanging out with us Lauren!
Sugar Bowl has been in the same location is Scottsdale since the 50s. I dont think it has changed hardly at all over the years except they did add on to it a while back. It is a charming place to go and they have some YUMMY ice cream desserts.
Nicole Waters Bennett, my dear friend I grew up with in Scottsdale.
Top Hat Sundae...my favorite! It is a huge cream puff filled with some really good vanilla ice cream and covered in hot fudge. Delish!
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Happy Jack
Mom, Dad, Rich/Toryi and kids, Aaron/Liz and kids, Daenon/Jen and kids, and my family all went camping up at Happy Jack. We were able to get lots of rides on the 3wheelers and 4 wheeler. Doug, Dakota and I went on a 6 mile hike that Dakota needed to do for a merit badge. I only made it 1 1/3 miles and went back to camp with a headache. We also went spotlighting at night and saw a lot of deer, elk, and even a cute little fox right by the road that just stared at us. We watched movies, played horseshoes, shot BB and pellet guns, went for hikes, made smores, and much more. After experiencing trailer camping again it makes me REALLY want one of my own! I'm so glad so many of my family members were able to make it up to camp with us.
Hyrum
Grandma's house in Hyrum was a lot of fun!
We enjoyed a few fishing trips up Blacksmith Fork Canyon. Doug and Dakota caught 3 fish each, Sabra caught 1, Troy caught 1, and I caught the smallest one of all.
We went on grandma's boat 2 days which was a lot of fun. Farrah and Troy's wakeboarding skills were impressive. Arissa even gave it a shot and almost made it up. Maybe next year!
The 4th of July celebrations in Cache Valley are always enjoyable to us. We went to 2 fireworks shows and a parade then had our own firework show in grandma's driveway the night of the 4th.
Aunt Sherri, Farrah, Jayden, and Aubree were all there along with Grandma and Sunny (for a couple days). It is always a lot of fun to get to visit with the family and friends.
SLC trip
Our second day in Utah was spent going down to the Salt Lake City area. We visited the Church History Museum, Temple Square, The Jordan River temple, and we to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house. It was fun to see my great grandmother Catherine Alvira Webb's sun bonnet on display. In the same display was a sketch of Orderville, Utah sketched by my great-great grandfather Isaac Van Wagner Carling. They helped settle that town under the church's "united order".
It was a neat experience to take the family through the temple. They were able to learn a bit about what goes on in the different rooms. We were able to clarify some things with the kids that they had been wondering about, such as baptism for the dead. The chandelier's were my favorite part of the decor. Beautiful!
That evening we went over to one of Doug's high school friends home in Spanish Fork. They invited over a few other friends from Riverside and had a good little reunion. Very nice people! I ate some bad Mexican food a few hours earlier so was a bit grumpy and in pain but I am glad Doug had the opportunity to visit with some old friends.
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