The Dells.

Our family of five headed to Wisconsin Dells for the Strasburg family vacation.  We left on Saturday morning and stayed in the Twin Cities one night.

 We kicked off our water vacation with a swim at the hotel pool.  My cousins Amy & Mike, Casey, and Kym and her kids stopped by for a visit which was awesome.  I don't get to see them very often so we had a nice visit.  We headed to the Dells after a nice brunch with my Uncle Brad & Aunt Jan Sunday morning.  It was a long drive but we were beyond excited to be there!  Shame on me for not taking any pictures with my camera.  I only snapped a few with my phone.  Sad.  Oh well, I guess I was in vacation mode.  Which by the way has an entire different meaning when you have a 6, 5, and 2 year old.

Glad to be out of the car and having a drink!  By the way, how lucky is Ryan?

 We did a ton of water park swimming while we were there.  We stayed at the Wildnerness resort which had indoor and outdoor water parks.  I was thankful for this because again it was cold!  The kids got really cold when we were in the outdoor parks.  I always gladly volunteered to take them to the indoor parks since I hate being cold also!

The kids were able to do a lot of fun things.  Landon probably did the most of anyone and my girls sat out on a few things.  There was golfing, mini golfing, the upside down white house, the mining company, arcades, Ripley's Believe It Or Not, outlet mall shopping, water parks, go carts, and a ski show to name a few things.

The girls at Tommy Bartlett's ski show.  Cuties.

After 4 days of vacation fun we were headed back home!

Gary, Ryan and Landon left early Thursday morning in order to make it for the Twins game at noon.  The weather was great and they enjoyed watching the game with some great seats.  Would have been better if the Twins would have won tho!

Ryan was very excited about the seats and had a blast with Landon and his dad!  I was just a little jealous...especially when Justin Morneau hit a homer!

Sue, the kids and I headed out about 11am in order to meet the boys when they were done with the game.  We only waited about 20 minutes for them and then we were on our way and Ryan's parents were on theirs.  We had a great vacation with everyone being good and having fun!  I won't go into the details but there was a couple of incidents of puke.  (Not the same kind of puke that happens when you party too much-more like kids puke) Thanks everyone for the great summer vacation:)