Wisconsin Trip 2011 (July 15th-July 20th)

We were fortunate enough to get invited back again to Aunt MaryJo and Uncle Denny's Lake house. We were also able to go for a little longer this year too. The girls were both great on the rides there and back, although not much napping happened. On the way, we woke them both up at about 5 am and would you believe neither slept a wink on the way?! Papa Dan lent us a minivan from his work and Riley loved the TV with her own personal headphones:) She wore them pretty much everywhere that we went!!

In Wisconsin, we had a very restful time. The kids spent a TON of time swimming and playing in the lake. Their favorite was swimming out to the swimming dock and jumping in:) And for as whiny as Riley is at swim lessons, she had no fears swimming in the lake back and forth (well, with her life jacket on of course...). By the end of our trip, she was even getting out of the boat and swimming in the middle of the lake! Mike and Kelsey enjoyed tubing and wakeboarding. I even got on the tube once, although not for long, but they refused to let me back in the boat without getting wet:( I think it is safe to say that we all enjoyed the boat rides and our time in Manitowish Waters! Oh and what would vacation be without pigging out, so of course we had to eat too much food as well! There are so many great places to eat Up North and we sampled many of them:) The girls were such great travelers. Not much complaining or whining, they went with the flow, and slept pretty good too. Check out all the fun things we did in Wisconsin. Oh and we were able to celebrate Riley's birthday there...and mine too! Auny MaryJo and Uncle Denny secretly love telling the waitresses it is someones birthday:) I got the dessert surprise the first night and Payton on the last night! Thank you to Aunt MaryJo and Uncle Denny for being such great hosts and thanks to the Andrews family for wanting to travel with our family!!!!

I am also going to attach ALL the photos that Kris took! She took a ton by the way and some of these are not from Wisconsin, but from all her travels in Illinois and Wisconsin. Thanks for sharing Kris:)