Minnesota ....Part 2

We had an awesome 2nd half of our vacation in Minnesota!  It was cloudy and cool our entire trip and two of the days both Chad and I were able to run around Rice Lake which is not far from my sister's home.  The first day I ran the trails around the lake and ran 5 miles with ease and followed up with another 3 mile run the last full day of our trip.  What a difference the lack of heat and no humidity make!!!

Cousin silliness

Sister silliness

The last full day we spent at Water Park of America. Collin's bravery continued to sky rocket (with encouragement) and he did the big family slide and several other tube slides!

And the night ended with some surfing lessons from our dare devil who needs no encouragement....

134 steps up to the family slide. 68 steps ( while carrying a large tube)up to the tube slides means we got enough cross training getting up to these slides at least a dozen times or more and each time at the end Collin would always cry "AGAIN!!".  It was a great time but we were tired at the end of a long day of water park adventures.

Monday we swam until check out again and then made the long 9 hour trip home.  Both boys did well and things went smoothly until we had a tired blow out on I-70 just before the Kansas Turnpike!  With cars flying by us at 80 mph Chad had us back on the road in no time with the help of a wonderful KTA worker who patrols the turnpike looking for motorist who need assistance (thank you State Farm for this amazing FREE service to all...another reason we love our State Farm Insurance Company).

What a great family vacation to start our summer!  Thanks again to Uncle Doug, Aunt Amy and Daniel for being such wonderful hosts!!!