Weekend in Review

Why do they go by so fast? Especially the ones where daddy is off. Anyway, we had another great, exciting, busy weekend.

Friday, hubby indulged me by going up to see my Dream Cabin. It was a beautiful day for a drive. And, of course, it was all that I expected and more. I love being in the country. I am pretty sure the lady (family) who is selling the cabin is living my life. They have a great big house that was built by her husband. All wood, every where. They had cows and goats and chickens, a huge garden and a great big Pyrenees dog (NG identified it right away and then went on to explain what it does)

About 100 yards away from the "big house" was the little cabin or cook house they call it. The family just happened to have a 9 yo girl and 7 yo son so the kids had a big time running all over and exploring together. The cabin itself was so quaint inside. It could easily sleep the six of us. Two porches, one overlooking a little pond.

The piece of land the cabin is situated on is long and narrow with the cabin at the very front. If I had two negative things to say, one would be that I had envisioned the cabin being situated in the middle of nowhere and that wasn't the case. You can see the neighbors house, kind of right next store. And, secondly, it wasn't quite as "woodsy" as I had envisioned.

But, it was worth the drive. We met a really great family who invited us to stay longer next time. They are in the process of growing all that they eat. And even growing edible flowers! A really, really neat family. And I look forward to visiting them again.

Saturday we spent at the amusement park for NG's birthday. We got there pretty early to avoid a lot of the long lines. Even though there seemed to be more people, it really didn't seem that crowded. I think part of the reason why was because the water park. was open. It was a little chilly for us, but we will definitely do it next time.

We had a great time riding rides. Nature Girl went on the Hangman which is a massive upside down, sideways, corkscrew, loopty loop roller coaster. I was so proud of her. Daddy said she wasn't scared a lick and it was intense! Little Mama rode plenty of rides by herself so that was cool too. Boop has to grow a couple more inches but he is ready to ride the big stuff soon!

The kids talked me into riding the River Rapids or some such thing. I watched everyone coming off and they did seem too awfully wet. Well, much to my surprise and maybe because of the way the inner tube hit the spiraling water funnel, I got soaking wet, to the bone. Two hours later, when we left, I was still wet. Every one got a great big chuckle out of that. Unfortunately, the only thing EG got to do was ride the stroller. But, she didn't seemed to mind much, if we just let her out occasionally to waddle around. (And of course made sure she had food.)

This time we went to the Adventure Show with snakes and alligators and we fed the birds in the Aviary. We also took the time to walk the nature trail which had some pretty cool animals.

Because we had left early in the morning, we were able to get home by dinner time. Which was good. Everyone was tired and ready to relax.

Yesterday we spent the morning at church and then Nature Girl got to go shopping with Sissy and Grandma. I know she loved that! They took her to Famous Daves for lunch and then to the mall. She got a cute outfit, some earrings, a purse and a Build A Bear.

And to end the weekend we had a family birthday party for my big nine year old. We just ordered pizza and the kids played outside. She opened presents and ate cake (red velvet of course.) She got a Zhu Zhu pet and earrings, a kit to make her own garden stones, a roll up mat to work her puzzles on and some beautiful pink and purple flowers. She also got everything an aspiring young bug catcher could possibly need: a net, a couple of insect containers, and two magnifiers and an insect field guide and a butterfly and moth field guide. Oh, and I can't forget a book light so she can read her encyclopedias in bed, at night.

All in all, a great, blurry birthday weekend . . .