Summer Vacation - Week 10

Well, this is the last Summer Vacation post for the summer. Technically, the boys do have one more week left, with school starting next Wednesday. We will be going on a family backpacking trip for Labor Day weekend to officially end our summer fun, but I figured that will be the start of the return of normal blog posts.

On Tuesday, we went to Martha Lake and met up with one of my mom friends Jeanne and her kids Ashlyn and Blake for a few hours of swimming. Jeanne and I were so busy chatting that this was the only pic I managed to get during the get together.

Peter and I shared our first Pumpkin Spice Latte of the Pre-Season! Made back-to-school shoe shopping easier. 

We went to Dairy Queen for a special treat!

And for the Grand Finale....we went to Birch Bay Water Park! It's a small water slide park 90 minutes north of us. We met up with Anne and her two boys. The park is small enough that as long as they used the buddy system they were able to run off on their own. We spent the entire day there. The boys had a blast. I realized I'm not much of a thrill seeker. The very first slide I chose to go on was the Hairpin. Out of the four slides in that particular area, that one is the fastest. At one point I tried to sit up in order to slow down, but instead my body ended up going sideways down the slide...Ugh! I at least went on the four slides once, and that was enough for me. My favorite was the River and the big wide slide. Clifford and Kristjan are already asking when we can go back. I told them next summer :)

Boys ready for their adventure!

 Here is Clifford and Jackson exiting the River

Kristjan relaxing on his inner tube