four favorites

We are home after spending 8 nights in Duluth this week!  We had a lot of fun, with just a couple not so fun, run down, tired, crabby kid moments.  It will be interesting to see if the kids can quickly get into a "back to school" routine and whether or not it was wise to take a long vacation right before school starts!  They traveled well enough, considering they are not good travelers, ha!  It's only about 5 hours (or less) up with a potty stop.  On the way there, we stopped at a couple of Wisconsin State parks.  That was really fun.  I have over 2,000 pictures to sift through, but hopefully I'll get more up soon.  Here is just a peek at some of the kids favorites things we did......

 Lemurs at the Zoo, the water slide at the hotel, the river otters at the aquarium and capturing the elusive "Snowball" at Tom's Logging Camp for Emily.

 Driving a large piece of driftwood like a ships wheel in Lake Superior, counting how many seconds he can hold his breath under water in the Twin Ponds, hitting crashing waves with sticks and of course, the water slide at the hotel for Luke.

Playing "choo choos" at the Duluth Children's Museum (or wherever had a train table!), playing in the wading pool at the hotel, going down the fun tree slide at the aquarium and playing on the rocking bumblebee at the Zoo playground for Logan.