Showing posts with label Vacation 08'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vacation 08'. Show all posts

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Vacation...Part 2- Finally!

Wow. Today, I was asking myself why I even keep a blog. I haven't been too good at it lately. I figured out last night that over the last month, we have been gone a total of 18 days. Here's how I figured it out...
5 days in Ohio visiting family, 7 days on vacation, 3 days in Washington DC and 3 days visiting Kent's mom. And Kent, well...he was gone for a week at the end of July so that makes 25 days for him. Crazy, huh. For most of the month I just kept my suitcase packed and added or took away from it whatever I needed. :) Anywhoo...I finally have some more vay-cay pics for ya. These are of the Olympic Ski-jumping Complex and Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid. The cutest part of our family on Whiteface Mt.
We have a pic like this with K when he was A's age. I'll have to dig it out.
This is the part where I was a wee bit nervous. I was trying to deal with the heights.
I don't mind them too much if there are bars or fences around but...this was pushing it. :)
The beauty of our surroundings made it all go away.

The chair lift at the Olympic Jumping Complex- where the olympic ski-jumpers practice.

They practice in the summer on this cool stuff made of plastic that they can slide easily on.

The aerial jumpers practice by jumping into this pool. They put on a program called

Wet and Wild Wednesdays where we could watch all of their tricks and get to see some young kids jump as well. It was a blast.

Ok. That's it for now. Some more interesting material to come soon. I promise. I think I'll be staying home for longer than a couple of days at a time...hopefully. :)

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

This Week In Pictures!

Well, we had a great vacation in Tupper Lake, NY in the Adirondack Mountains! There's so much to tell and many pictures to share so, I've decided to dedicate this week of posts to our vacation (lucky you). If you're interested, I'll be sharing our "ton" of pictures and tidbits from our fun week! We'll start with our hike up Mount Arab. K hiked the whole thing by himself and A took the scenic route in the backpack. Here's my two guys and A with her little head sticking out of the backpack...ready to go!
view from the top...breathtaking. Call me crazy, but the smell of the air was amazing. I couldn't stop breathing in as I was hiking to take in all of the smells. How could you not believe in God's creation when you view something like this?
picnicking atop the mountain. K had to take his shirt off because he was hot. :)
Here we are!
The hike was approximately 3 or 3 1/2 miles round trip so it was perfect for the kiddos. It was a great beginning to our vacation. K was proud of his accomplishment of climbing his first Mountain!
*Tomorrow...The Olympic Ski Jumping Complex in Lake Placid...fun!