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Entry 5?

As part of our fee at the Wilderness resort, we got free tickets to the Tommy Bartletttt waterski show. So we went. It was a slice of old-school Americana and it was really impressive. We loved it. It was half water skiing and half (human) circus-like acts. All of which were truly impressive!

Then we headed east toward Green Bay, but stopped in Fon Du Lac for the night. It at the foot (Fon) of lake Winnebago. We checked out the town and the lake Monday am. We saw white pelicans hanging out on the lake! That was really cool.

I did not get a good pic of one, but am still hopeful that I'll get one.

Day 4?

We've been gone a week so are regularly unsure of what day it is. I think it's Friday evening.

I left out a visit to the (St. Louis) Federal Bank's Economy Museum. It's free and it was fun. We got to buy/sell wheat on the exchange. Kat did the best of all of us, making the most money from her sales. And we got a bag of shredded money when we left.

After leaving Springfield yesterday we went to Geneva, IL for our first minor league ball game (on this trip). The Lake County Cougars beat the Quad city something's 5-2. In a game with 3 out-of-the-park homeruns (by 3 different Cougars) 2 balks, 1 pick- off and a double play! Another very exciting game! We are getting spoiled!

The game was followed by fireworks and kids of all ages running the bases. Which Kat & Dan did. She's wearing the giant white sweatshirt in those pics. It's her JO souvenir. I don't expect it to stay white for long....

Today (& tomorrow) there's a heat advisory all over the mid/east north. 95-98 degrees here. So it seemed like the right time for a water park. We're at wilderness resort in Wisconsin Dells. Apparently the water park capital of the US! There are 5-6 different water parks on this property, half indoors and half outdoors. It was the best place to be on such a ridiculously hot day. We will be here through Sunday, so I may not have much exciting stuff to tell you about. If I clean out my phone/camera, maybe I'll take some pics.

The last pic is from the Moosejaw pizza company & brewery here in Wisconsin Dells. I love the hat!

We did get free tickets to a waterski show nearby, so we will have to do that one of these days. Then, I think the plan is to head north and do sone camping. If the kid isn't too spoiled by the water parks/hotel set up. I had wanted to end with the water park, but we decided that staying in for these days was far better than trying to camp!


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Buffalo people...

Oh yeah- when gathering for the ghost walk last night, both Dan & Kat we're wearing Buffalo shirts. And a guy came over to see if we were from Buffalo, as he's from east Aurora. And while he's talking, I'm looking at him closely...and asked if his name was Sean? He & I had worked together in a 4 person office in Clarence nearly 25 years ago!!

Lexie would have loved it!!

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Pics from Lincoln’s tomb

Journal entry Two

We got to St. Louis I. The midst of another terrific storm. Then we roamed around, found a place to eat and wait out the next monsoon-like thunderstorm (Caleco's, near the ballpark). Then went to the cardinals/Cleveland game, after an 1.5 rain delay. And it was worth waiting out...we were only there five innings and saw 3 homeruns and a s ore of 9-2! At least it was t a boring game. We, along with most other fans left at that time. And then we took a pedicab back to the hotel! That was different and we tipped the young lady well, as she worked hard! The next day we roamed around a bit, had breakfast on the steps of the arch watching the mighty Mississippi. (I dropped my phone a few more times, so please excuse typos-it's really a challenge to see some portions of my screen now!)

Then we rolled down the hill. Hopefully that video will come through.

We topped off our St. Louis visit with a trip to Ted Drew's ice cream place- rates the best in the world. We did declare that it was excellent ice cream that was quite possibly the best we'd ever had. So I definitely recommend it if you're in the area!

Our rambling post Junior Olympic vacation!

Hello all!

Journal entry One:

It's been a looong time. But I thought I should document this vaca (else I might forget!). 

So, Kat's team finished 15/34 at the Junior Olympics (aka Nationals-as everyone there had to qualify in their zone to get there). They did great and were very proud of their accomplishments.  As they should be!

The video of Kat's 12 U Team routine is posted on Take it Live. They are 10 out of 33 in their queue.  I think this link goes directly to the Wizard of Ahhhs.  

 

https://coverage.takeitlive.tv/keyword/18tl054rc-E04/i-jGNVFk7

 

We left Oxford, OH (Miami of Ohio university) Tuesday Morning.  Most folks headed for home, but we were loaded to begin a nearly 2 week vaca. We headed to St. Louis and a new state for Kat & I. 

Of course, we had the sleeping bags/tent in the car top carrier and got pummeled by rain not once but twice on the way to Oxford. Luckily I had bagged most everything AND we had a townhouse and a dryer to spread out & dry our stuff in for 4 days.  When we left there, everything went in the car. It's getting rather crowded in here. 

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Peter Pan solo from 2 years ago

Eclipse in Kentucky

We decided we had to see 2:30 minutes of totality, so we headed for Kentucky. It was AMAZING!!!

November 30th...

It's the last 4 hours of November. And it's 55 degrees out, the flowers are still plugging away. And a thunderstorm is scaring poor Roxy (who was sure that summer-like weather was behind us...).

It is supposed to drop back to highs in the 40s for the rest of the week. But man.... I don't see how anyone can question global warming any longer....