Sunday, August 30, 2009

Vacation 6

Our final batch of vacation pictures. We start with three pictures from our night-time horse and buggy ride, with "Bob" the horse:



Hayley in the Kalahari's indoor water park:

Sherry and Hayley:


Vacation 5

More vacation pics, starting with Sherry, Collin, and Hayley at Moosejaw Pizza:


Mike, Amy and the kids at the "small" pool behind our building at the Kalahari:


Collin listening to story time in the Kalahari lobby:


Vacation 4

More vacation pics, starting with Collin and Hayley eating chocolate-covered pretzels (a really big mess, BTW):

Collin "driving" a car game in the indoor amusement park:

Collin on top of a gorilla statue:

Sherry and the kids at the Timbavati animal show:

Mike and Hayley there, too:


Vacation 3

All the kids playing at the Kalahari outdoor waterpark.





Vacation 2

Our visit to the Timbavati Wild Animal Park in the Dells, includ a train ride and feeding a giraffe.





Vacation 1

We spent our family vacation this year in the Wisconsin Dells. Here's the first of a bunch of photographs.

We'll start with the whole gang posing in front of the Timbavati Wild Animal Park/Storybook Gardens:

Mike and the kids in the lobby of our hotel:

The gang posing in front of a duck (the motorized kind):

Amy, Laura, and the kids petting and feeding a baby tiger in our hotel lobby:

The gang on a bridge at the Timbavati place:


Sunday, August 16, 2009

Deep Fried Saturday Part 3

Deep Fried Saturday was also lots of fun for the little kids. Here are Collin and Hayley enjoying themselve at Mark's house and in a neighbor's backyard.





Deep Fried Saturday Part 2

More pics from Deep Fried Saturday, including Laura and Hayley smiling for the camera; Mike and Melanie and one of Mark's neighbors; nephews Alec and Ben and friends doing karaoke; Mark at the deep fryer; and the nephs and friends on a neighbor's swingset.






Deep Fried Saturday Part 1

Day two (or was it one and a half?) of our vacation found us driving from Winona to Milwaukee, for Deep Fried Saturday. This is an annual event held by Mike's brother Mark and sister-in-law Stephanie, a really big deal where everybody brings all sorts of things to deep fry. Almost 100 people attended, there was karaoke and a dunk tank, and much fun was had by all. Our contribution this year was deep-fried bacon (yummy!), deep-fried green beans, and deep-fried fruits of various types. (Mike's favorite: Deep-fried cantaloupe.)





Thursday, August 13, 2009

Alethia's Birthday 3

More pictures from Alethia's birthday breakfast -- just before we got back on the road to Milwaukee.