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Monday, July 21, 2008

The Lake Trip (part II)







We got back from our Smith Mountain lake trip Saturday evening. After walking through the door to a very excited Harley dog, I quickly went into work mode (I mean, come on, I had been riding in a car for 10+ hours- I had a ton of energy [and sugar free Red Bull's] to burn). I jumped in the shower and brought Owen with me. Put Owen to bed as Chris unpacked the car. I vacuumed, cleaned the kitchen, loaded and ran the dishwasher, checked emails and did 4 loads of laundry. I just like to get things done right away and not have them hanging over my head for days after a trip. Instead of breaking down the lake trip day by day or story by story, I will just do a good things/bad things list and leave you with a few pictures. I'll also leave the link to my Shutterfly album of the trip for anybody who might want to look through all the pictures.
Good Things:
*Owen's 1st time fishing
* lots of time spent with Chris' family
*Owen got to spend lots of quality time with his cousins Elijah, Lily and Wil
*lots and lots of beers and margaritas
*great food- and lots of it
*fun times on the jet ski's
*cooler weather, a nice break from our Florida summer
*Owen learned to swim all by himself (with his life jacket on)
*Owen napped and slept well the whole time we were there
*Chris got to fish a lot
*Owen was EXCELLENT in the car even though he didn't sleep very much at all!

Bad things:
*Owen didn't sleep much in the car
*lots of hours driving
*the flies (they were really bad this year)
*I didn't run ONE time while there
*I got stung by a bee. Ouch.









1 comments:

MP said...

way to go on surviving a 10 hour car trip!! I can't believe you did that..I don't think I am tough enough. It looks like you had alot of fun! And..Owen is so handsome..he looks so much older in these pictures :)