Vacation Details

Ok, well its back to work. I guess I knew it had to happen but it sure was nice to have the week off. I don't get very many vacations in fact that was the first full week I have taken in 6 years. Could be longer but that is about right. Usually the family goes and I get a couple days here and there while still trying to work.

Anyway... our vacation was great. We went to Yogi Bear camp grounds in Amboy, IL. Pretty nice park with plenty of things to do. The kids absolutely love going. There are three swimming pools, a mini golf course, 2 water slides, a game room, craft room, paddle boats, snack shop, and small store. Probably missed a few things but you get the idea. There is tent camping areas, small cabins, that would be a dry tent with a/c and small mobile homes (i guess that's what you would call them). That's what we get. They have 3 bedrooms 2 small and 1 with a double bed and a closet. The most important thing is they have a shower and a/c. Also a kitchen a fridge.

We also rented a golf cart for the week which if you have kids I highly recommend. The park is pretty big and with our kids they want to do everything at least 3 times a day so it would be hard to walk to everything all day long.

We were all set to leave on Sun. right after church. We had my Durango and Jens car packed. 4 girls for a week yeah its a lot of stuff. Really just the Durango and the car's trunk was full of fire wood. Jen getts to church and tells me the Durango isn't shifting right and running real bad. Amboy is about an hour and a half a way so I didn't want all the girls driving that far and taking a chance on breaking down so we borrowed her dads truck. Unpack and re-pack. That was fun. Then they left and I had to get the Durango to the shop so it could be worked on while we were gone. I still had to go to wal-mart and jewel after that. I thought I would never get start my vacation. Finally get to Yogi about 3:30 4:00. First thing I find out is the Internet service is down. Cant believe it. Not the end of the world but I do enjoy surfing the net and had planned on blogging all week about things going on. But after that it was smooth sailing great weather all week.

Me and my daughter Alexis did get to go fishing as I said before her first time. Probably been more than 10 years for me. Sense I do have 3 daughters of course we don't have any fishing poles or any of the things you need to just get a hook in the water. (those of you who really know me know whats coming next) So of course I had to go buy fishing gear and sense she wanted to fish I mhad to fish too. I cant believe how much it cost just for a couple poles and some hooks well maybe I got a few more things than that. Like the cool spider man tackle box I got for Alexis. (she is a spidy fan) So off fishing we go it was great to see how excited my daughter was about it and we don't get much one on one so that was great. I just wasn't sure how this fishing thing was going to go. They are girly girls. Not tom boys at all.

We bait up our hooks I cast mine then help her.....yeah that about how long it stayed in the water. Not sure if the bobber even got wet before she had it reeled back in. So i explained to her that the fish wouldn't bite it if it was moving. So we cast again............. a little longer that time bobber just got wet and its in again. So I help her one more time and tell her she needs to leave it out there. By this time I had reeled mine as well and was going to walk over 20' or so on the other side of this tree and try there. Well I got over there and her curplunk. Wasn't sure what it was didn't pay to much attention to it. (as long as Alexis was still on the shore) Few seconds later I hear it again so I look over and Alexis was reeling in as fast as her little hand could go and then casting it back out just as fast. I was so shocked and impressed that I couldn't say anything to her. Could not believe that in just the few times I had helped her cast it out she picked it up and was doing a good job at to. Keep in mind that we were fishing on the side of a pond that just had a few little openings and the rest was trees and bushes. I just thought that was pretty cool. Even if she did only last about 20 min. and was ready to go. i guess I don't need to tell you that we didn't catch a thing.

I did get yelled at for going off roading in the golf cart. Me and the girls went for a ride in the woods and I guess just because the golf cart will fit down a path doesn't mean you can take it down all the paths something about the real paths are gravel .

Camp fires... Camp fires have to be the best part about camping. Nothing like sitting around a camp fire playing a good movie on a 20" flat screen and drinking coffee. Yeah we had movie night at the camp grounds and didn't want to sit inside the cabin so we brought it all out side. I love camping. I know there are some real campers out there who are probably disgusted with all this but I just cast see how sleeping on the ground and taking shower in a shower house with freezing cold water can be fun. Getting up in the middle of the night and having to walk around outside in the dark to look for a place to go to the bathroom, no thanks. Well its not quite how I wanted to blog about my vacation (still cant believe the internet service was down) but you guys get the idea. We had a great time to bad it will be a year before we get to do it again.

Wow that was long. Is there a rule on how long a post should be? I'm sure if there is I am going to hear about. (yeah I'm talking about you)