Summer Trip

 We did a week long vacation in two parts, well three for the kids. 

Part 1: The kids got picked up by Umma and Uppa for a week of fun with them. The boys went backpacking.  Amelia just hangout with Umma. 

Part 2: Dan, Moana and I showed up on Sunday night for the next part of the trip. We headed out to Ocean Shores to stay in Linda's beach house. It was a nice time. The weather was sunny with a slow breeze. We played on the beach, played board games (a Christmas present from Grandma Linda we got then), drew pictures and watched movies.  One day we went miniature golfing and go-karting. All the usual fun of a beach trip. On unusual thing about the trip was there was a dead whale right on the beach in front of Linda's house. Boy could you smell it when you walked down! But once we moved down the beach a bit the wind took the smell away. The tide would wash all the intestines and chucks of whale all up and down the beach. Gross but cool.

Part 3:

Once we got back from the ocean we did wash, got some more groceries and packed back up for a camping weekend at Holly. Umma, Uppa, Shannon, Gary and Josh's family was there. We had great weather. The kids went kayaking and swimming. This year Uppa brought his 4 wheeler up so the boys took turns riding on that. Gary brought his side by side to ride in so we all got trips in that. I think the kids ate chips and cookies the whole weekend so of course they enjoyed that. 

*** Because Jacob wanted to bring his go-kart to ride at Holly we rented a small tow behind trailer to haul it with. Jacob didn't end up riding it much but it gave  him and Uppa something to work on the week he was there. The trailer worked out great to pack things in so we had plenty of room. And because we had the trailer we invited Moana to come along since we now had an extra seat. When I got to Umma's the kids were excited to see her and Skipper.