Well, I won't dwell on the fact that there are some things about the summer that weren't exactly perfect: Namely the weather and the fact that labor day weekend is the first time all summer that we as a family will be traveling to the cabin. Yikes. But no, instead I choose to remember the great times we had this summer. These last two weeks were done in style. We had a few days of nothing on the schedule so the kids could just hang out at the house. But mostly we had to pack in all the things we wanted to make sure we did before the summer was done. I look at the list, and thankfully we did all the things we had to do, but did not do things we could do when it was winter. Last week, the big event was Valleyfair. It was a hot day, unlike last year, so we spent a few hours in the water park. Gwen was happy in the splash pad, and going around the lazy river. That's up my speed to at this point. Trevor went on all the roller coasters this year, and even the giant swing. Next year, he'll have to try Steel Venom when it is not closed for repairs and maybe the Power Tower. New for him this year was Wild Thing. To which he said, "was that supposed to be fast?" Good for him. He should ride those coasters while he can!
This week, we went to a friend's pool one day and the State Fair today. Both gave us some great memories. It was a hot day today, but luckily a friend gave us a great free giveaway and I never knew how many places had free water, as long as you had your own container. We ate everything we could, and barring any investigation by CPS due to lack of nutrition today, I think we had a great one! Cheese curds, mini doughnuts, frozen grapes, milk shakes, french fries (a LOT), chocolate chip cookies, lemonade, Icees, beer (for the adults), a giant pickle for Trevor, and there could have been more. We visited the Twins shop, the skyride, agriculture building, the cows, pigs, horses, sheep, giant slide, butterfly building (Gwen lasted 3 minutes because she couldn't take the things flying in the room), the maze, trampoline, and tried to stay in the shade as much as possible. Did I mention it was hot? Thankfully they had a lot of "mist-ers" out spraying people or blowing a fan with a mist-er on it. It was very nice. And we lasted 8+ hours. Gwen had a few piggy back rides, but really she did great walking around. No big complaints. Lots of smiles and good times! That was really the theme to the summer. Lots of smiles and great times!
This summer the family got to visit Dr. Johnson and family in South Dakota. The kids were excited to be in a new state for them. It was a lot of fun to see so many fireworks on the 4th of July. We got out to play golf on the small par 3 course by our house. I did not golf much at all this summer, but we had lots of fun other places. We visited the city pool a few times and had some great weather and not so great crowds. I was happy about that! Trevor got to camp and I didn't have to do anything except bring him to the place. He did not come home with a million mosquito bites, and he wants to do it again next year, so I'd say a success! There was a lot of baseball played, by both kids and I'm sure it will ramp up from here. Even Russ got in on the action when his Twin's Fantasy camp reunion game was played last weekend at Target Field. Trevor got to really see him pitch and pitched himself on the very mound that the Twins also pitch off of. It was a great experience for everyone!
Although Trevor says he's not happy that summer vacation is coming to a close, I think there is a part of him that will be happy to see his classmates again. He knows that with summer ending, comes winter and cold and says he doesn't like the cold. We'll see. Next summer will be here again before you know it. And with the kids having little tastes of fun things to do in the summer, I know we'll be doing a lot more of this summer, in the future summers. But for now, I too am happy for school to be starting. I love that I'm going to have time to volunteer more at the kids' school, and get a better idea of what I can do with my time having them at school. So we'll see what this next change brings. Hopefully lots more fun to come!
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