Double Blessings: August 2008

Last week the family and I spent the week on Table Rock Lake in Branson, MO. I got to see all my cousins...all 17 of them, my aunts and uncles and grandpa and Connie. Mom, dad and I started the trip on Friday night, they thought it would be a good idea to break the trip up for me so I didn't have to ride 7 hours straight in my carseat. They thought forsure that I would fall asleep on the way to Kansas City, but I decided I wanted to stay up...until 11:30. Man did that exhaust my parents. I was pretty exhausted too, dad laid me down at 11:30 and I didn't make a peep. The next morning we ate breakfast and then we joined the caravan of 5 cars and we finished the trip to Branson.

The week went really fast and it was really hot, its all almost a blur now but I will try to remember. We spent the first few days mainly on the boat, I really liked the boat and I loved when I got to drive the boat. We would normally head out on the boats by 10:00 and we would eat lunch on the boats, tube, ski, lots of swimming to cool off and of course I took a nap every morning on the boat. By the mid week we had all had a lot of sun and so we kept it mainly to the pool but the die hards went out in the morning and night to take advantage of the smooth water.

On Tuesday we all went to the show "The New Shanghai Circus". It was a pretty cool show, it only kept my attention for about 30 minutes. I got to have popcorn, a sucker and m&m's to keep me content. But then I just got really tired so mom rocked me in the back in my stroller and I fell asleep. I thought being able to put my foot in my mouth and do a headstand made me pretty flexible but you should have seen these people, they could bend backwards and touch their feet to their heads. I got a lot of work to do.

On Wednesday night we tried to have a mexican fiesta but it got rained out so all my cousins tried to line up on the side of the building to eat their food. The rest of us moved inside where it was dry.

This vacation I did notice that people seemed to be dropping one by one. My Uncle Greg unfortunatley dislocated his shoulder wakeboarding, two of my cousins got a fever and didn't feel very good and I think at least four people got swimmers ear. But that didn't stop our fun. We finished the rest of the week going out on the boats and being on the water, it was too hot to not be in the lake. Thursday night we drove all the way to see the dam, I think it was about 30 miles. Then on Friday we spent the majority of the day on the boat and we went cliff jumping. I was way to young, but a lot of people in my family did the jump, even my little cousin Alexa! The vacation ended with a little bump in the road, Greg's boat broke down, then Leon went to go tow them back in and they ran out of gas, so dad and Aunt Rachel got on the jet ski and took some gas to them and finally everyone made it back to the resort around 8:00.

I had a blast hanging out with all of my cousins and just being outside and in the water. Mom can tell I am pretty exhausted this week and still recovering from vacation, but then again so is she. You can see all my vacation pictures if you click on the link to go to my Picasa album or you can see some of them below.