We took a little vacation last week away from the cold with the Lenzen family. We enjoyed the warmth and each other’s company.
Train ride
Plenty of fun with the magic wands in the Harry Potter areas
Kyle and I had a few at Moe’s
Kong!
Good times with Doc
Magic walls!
I saw our last 747 in the MSP hangar tonight before she heads off to retirement. I was blessed to fly upstairs with the beautiful people a couple of times 😁✈️ #dl747farewell #delta
Thanks to Paul and Barb we had an opportunity to check out the new home of the Minnesota Vikings last weekend!!
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Joey sounding the Gjallarhorn
Joey running out of the players tunnel
Hanging in the locker room
Joey catches a touchdown!!!
Where I belong in the stadium 🙂 feels like home!
This seating is unreal
We did not get to take any pictures but she did a wonderful job. We are all VERY proud of her.
The last two weekends have been great for being outside! We have build snowmen, ice skated, and built snow forts. Joey found it hard to believe that I used to build snow forts as a kid. I think I had as much fun as he did 🙂
A few weeks ago we had the Lenzen family up at the lake (minus Vivian) for some summertime fun.
The weekend crew
Having fun on the dock during sunset
Mom and Dad relaxing during sunset
The girls…
The boys…
I love this picture 🙂
We spent wonderful week up at the cabin with the family. The weather could not have been better!! As usual, the kids all had fun playing and there was a lot of tubing behind the new Netzinger boat, we went to the local parade, visited a county fair, made smores, drifted around on tubes, went on a horse pulled carriage ride, launched model rockets, visited the some historical sites, maintained our GeoCache, went fishing, visited “Florida Point”, went on many pontoon trips, and hung out with friends.
A picture with great Gma and Gpa after launching model rockets
Yummy
Big Joe pulling the boys
Carolyn managed very well with her bad foot
After the parade
Fun times in town with the carriage ride
Shane and Nicky’s new boat
Where’s the candy?
At the GeoCache
The good old Tilt-o-whirl
Ready for fireworks
Last weekend I had asked the kids to name a few places they would like to visit in the upcoming week. Elizabeth responded, “Georgia”. I thought this was kind of funny because I was already going to be there for work but agreed knowing that there is plenty to do in the Atlanta area. So, Carolyn and the kids flew down on Thursday evening to join me. They had a little adventure going through Milwaukee to get there and when they landed there were some pretty ugly storms approaching. It made for an interesting arrival but we got them safely to the hotel.
On Friday we went to the Atlanta Aquarium, followed by the World of Coke, and finally a CNN tour. We enjoyed all of them. The Aquarium was my favorite and of course the kids REALLY liked tasting all of the soda flavors available at the end of the Coke visit. The most disgusting flavor was from Italy – ick!!
We started Saturday with the Waffle House and went to Zoo Atlanta. This was Carolyn’s favorite visit as we watched various monkeys and gorillas. In addition, we saw elephants, zebras, and giraffes. We were only about 20% through the zoo when Carolyn took a bad step and hurt her foot. This abruptly ended our zoo tour and our trip. After picking up some crutches and getting help from the airport courtesy people we made it home safely and were able to get Carolyn settled in. Good memories for the kids and a interesting story with the foot 🙂
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The aquarium is amazing!
This exhibit reminded me of Hawaii. It was fun to point out all the fish we had seen when snorkeling last fall
Joey loved all the living creatures that he could touch
The kids were crabby when they saw the crabs…
The Coke Bear
With one of the London Olympic Torches
The next generation of news anchors?
We ended the day with a purchase of some new t-shirts and a swim at the hotel pool
On Saturday we went to Zoo Atlanta
The zoo was wonderful!
This guy had something stuck in his teeth. Crazy tongue action
The last picture of Carolyn on her own two feet 🙁
Carolyn at home on Sunday with a hurting foot
Elizabeth teamed up with Ella and Ruby on a volcano project and “the Dads” were put in charge of this project by our spouses. Kyle coordinated so that we could get the project going, Matt encouraged the girls to be creative, and I looked for the most explosive eruption which was Mentos and Diet Coke instead of the baking powder solution 🙂
The girls did a great job! They were very creative with all of the details of pine and palm trees, painting, water, and dinosaurs.
During the build
Video
Post eruption at school
Creating the foundation
Getting messy
Test eruption’ – We doubled the Mentos for the real one 🙂
The finished product
We enjoyed our first trip to the cabin for the summer. We caught up with friends, went fishing, put the dock in, checked out our geocache, ate smores, and hung out.
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A blue sky
Elizabeth enjoying the swing
Joey and I were out in the rowboat
Getting ready to put the dock in
