The Hydes were super great! Spence even made us a delicious breakfast of crepes with raspberries & whipping cream! They have a season pass to Lagoon so they were on board for playing! Spence brought Noah & Olivia in the morning for Lagoon A Beach & then they came back with Keri that afternoon.
So Lagoon A Beach first...
and the rides all the rest of the day!
After Lagoon we drove the rest of the way up to Bear Lake or Garden City to be more specific! We ended up getting there at 2 am! After we missed the turn in Logan & drove an extra 45 minutes!
Sunday we went to church & it was packed! Apparently the get so full during summer with visitors that its standing room only! They asked for help with the sacrament & with their choir performance & got a big turnout! It was really neat. The speakers were Bro & Sis Moss!
That night we had FHE. We sang some primary songs & then Grandma read a story. We had a chocolate fountain with fixings for dessert.
So here are the activities we did during the week. We hiked up to Alpine Lakes & they were beautiful! There was snow still touching the lake! There also was a huge tree with a rope swing that Davey tested out & got a huge response from a girls camp who happened to be there! (He later met up with one of the girls! She left a note on the car for him with her number!) After the hike we ate lunch at the Bear Cave.
After lunch we went up to Minnetonka Cave. While waiting for our turn to hike, the kids feed the chipmunks sunflower seeds right out of their hands! We got to see a lot of formations & even the staircase to heaven! There was a lot of stairs in that cave!
That night we played a little Rock Band. Rigby & Olivia really enjoyed drumming!
We of course had to go to the lake! But first we picniced at the park & played some four square & did some swinging. We also played kickball & Rigby did his first dive into 1st base! Ok, so maybe he "fell" into 1st base but it was still awesome!
Then we walked down the boardwalk to the beach. We swam, found seashells, & fed the seagulls.
That night was Davey's Eagle Court of Honor. Dave did a really good job!
One of the days we drove down to Logan & went to the temple. It is a beautiful temple! Very castle like!
After the temple we did a tour of the Bluebird Chocolate Company. It was neat to see how it was all made - it was even made by hand! Then we went bowling! We always seem to go bowling on our vacations! Rigby even bowled a strike!
We then ate lunch at Great Harvest & headed out to Willow Park & Zoo. That was fun. They didn't have a lot of animals but it was only $1 honor system admission! They had coyotes that were napping so we all started howling to them & it worked! They stood up & started howling back & barking at each other! It got really loud & then about 20 people showed up to see what was going on! We also saw some turtles duke it out! It was fun.
We had some fun activities at the condos too. Judy's family prepared some Olympic Games & Jeff's family did some Minute To Win It games. It was really funny to see all things we had to do!
Along with all the fun activities, we also did our share of swimming! Which was great because thanks to swim lessons, the kids were right in there swimming!
One of the nights all the adults got to go to dinner & a show. The dinner was yummy & the show was actually quite good! I think it was called Crazy Over You. After that we all went back for cake to celebrate the twins birthday (Trent's twin brothers just older than him who died as infants). I love the picture of Mom & Dad with the cake!
We also took the opportunity to take a complete family picture down by the lake since we were all there together. Dave took the good pictures & we are waiting for those but we did take some pictures with our camera & they turned out pretty good!
The last day before leaving we did a pinata. It was a pirate boat to go with the theme that we had for the last night there. We had to wait to do it the next day because it got to late, past the 10 o'clock curfew! So the night before it was our turn to cook & we made shredded pork tacos & then the kids did a scavenger hunt for some pirate booty in the treasure chest!
We were actually gone for 9 days & it went by way too fast! Guess that says just how much fun we had!!
