Staycation-Vacation!

Sigh! I would so, so love to be a stay at home mom, but I did not make the right decisions to make that happen, so I must work and be away from my family 5 days a week. With travel time, that takes a 10 hour bite out of every day! It is my own fault, so don't feel sorry for me, but I don't mind if you listen to me whine a little now and then!

So this week I took two days of vacation! Yay! Today we went to the lake for a quick day trip with Jacob and Abbey. Our family has always loved to visit Grand Lake, so we wanted to share the experience with Abbey. We had a great time swimming at Little Blue State Park. But first we took her to all of our usual stops on the way. The Blue Whale, The Totem Pole & Fiddle Gift Shop, and Jacob's favorite, Twin Arrows Trading Post, for buffalo jerky.

We finally arrived at noon. We swam and sunned ourselves for a few hours, then I grilled yummy hamburgers. We went back to swim for a while so we could cool off. Then we took a drive to show her more sights below the dam and we showed her the view across the dam from Langley to Disney throught the telescope. Kim's Grandparents owend a house in Disney when he was a little boy and we showed her where he grew up. Last, on our way out of town, we backtracked to Pistol Pete's for a chocolate dipped cone. Wow! We had to eat those so fast before they melted, I did not have time for a picture!

We had a nice, nice day! I love not working! Of course if I did not work, we still couldn't have adventures like that every week, but maybe a bit more often?