Monday, August 22, 2011

Weekend getaway

Well, the weekend started out with a 7 hour car ride (urrrr traffic) and both kids having diarrhea, don't worry the story gets much better from here. We drove through some beautiful back country where there was cattle in the road and bullet holes in the road signs. We drove by Grand Coulee Dam which is always neat. Then we arrived at the most beautiful secluded lake house on a lake called Twin Lakes above Lake Roosevelt seriously out in the middle of nowhere.

 
In the morning we woke up to this lovely view.
This is a picture from the kid play house looking at the lake houses. The house on the left is Ted and Melissa's (Larisa's uncle and aunt) and the house on the right is the guest house.
 Play house, Abi was in love.






 Abi went for her first ride behind the boat! They had a huge "couch" that sat three people that you pull behind the boat and Abi wanted to go for a ride so we went. Brad and I rode with her and we started out going slow but she wanted to go faster and faster until we were full speed. I was getting really wet so wanted to get off but she wanted to ride more so one of the other kids hopped on to take my place.

 Abi having some kind of melt down about something.
 Cousins
After a day full of boating and swimming we ended Saturday evening with a campfire and smores. It was a great weekend with family and we were so grateful to be invited. On our way home Sunday we went a different way and took a ferry (the smallest ferry I have ever seen) across Lake Roosevelt. The ferry held 9 cars.


It took us 8+ hours to get home, I cursed traffic the whole way. We put the car in park and just sat for what felt like forever. Seattle area traffic just kills me, you can't go anywhere in the city because of it and you can't even get away from the city because of it. Abi was an angel in the car and Ben did pretty good too. Abi's imagination just cracks us up, the things she says and makes up these days are too funny! She kept us entertained and sane the long ride home. We encountered the hottest temp all summer when we stopped for lunch in Cashmere.

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