Happy Anniversary Dad and Terry!

I know 13 years is kind of exciting!


Dad and Terry asked us if we wanted to go to ride the Hiawatha trail and stay at the Silver Mt. Resort with them to celebrate.






Amia was the first to try the continuous wave. It was so funny to watch people on it. I think I was so freaked out to try it because everyone was watching. I had not a clue how to stay on that board. Valencia did not want to go on the tunnel slides but wanted to go on this I think her fear receptor are a little backwards because I was scared to go on this one. Amia did great she stayed on so long that they told her she had to flip herself, then it would shoot you up over the top.





Our room. Becca and Steve came along with us. The rooms were extremely nice. The kids played in this bathtub forever. If we didn't know what they were doing they were here. And if you know where to find one of these leaf bowls I would love to know. I would love it for baby photos.


And for the Finale the Hiawatha Trail. Which was the Hidowanabehereanymore trail after awhile. The day before was beautiful for a bike ride but we got there to late to get done by the time the shuttle would be leaving. So this is us the next day, so under prepared for what we were about to take on. The first tunnel is 1.7 miles long and quite a fun adventure. The rain did not let up for the whole 4 hours we were riding. Ok some times it was at a sprinkle but still we were all soaked through. Thank goodness for the garbage bags they sold us because they were out of ponchos. Steve had a buch of hand warmers which I am sure were the answer to my prayers. I was so worried about the little ones the whole time. At one point I was in front of the group by myself and saying prayers that the kids would not be as cold as I was. I don't remember many times in my life where I have been that cold. The kids were troopers. I kept saying we would go to the water park at the hotel afterward to go in the hot tub, just think of the hot tub. I am writing this so we did make it down. We got to the shuttle about 3:20 and it would not leave until 4:15 but they had to do a sweep down the hill to make sure there was nobody on the Mountain still. We could her them on the radio and there were three more people on there way down they only had 3 more miles left but they were taking there own sweet time. We were all complaining about being on this freezing cold bus, sopping wet for two hours by the time they got down it was 5:20. They wouldn't even turn the bus on so we could warm up. We had all had it. Clint said to me when he saw the people " they have a tandem bike". So we all realized that one of the three people we had been waiting for was blind. All our mouths were quiet for a while. Humility sets in sometimes very quickly. So we had promised the kids the hot tub so we got back to the resort and got all ready and went in and found out that they closed a hour earlier than we though. So no hot tub! Lesson: Be Prepared!
Next time Dad and Terry let us know before hand that it is your Thirteenth Anniversary!
I can't say I had a bad time, it just ended up a little different then I thought. We all had lots of fun.

Hey you guys remember that one time when we rode the Hiawatha Trail and froze our butts off!