saturday...

(if you're looking for the results of the drawing for the book... click here)

*** warning obnoxious amount of photos ahead ***

I probably took entirely too many photos... but, hey, it's what I do! :-)

This past weekend we went back to our favorite resort in Michigan... Crystal Mountain. We went for the first time last year with Jeff's family.

To show you how much fun we had.... here's our Saturday...

We got up and had breakfast. The first thing open that day was the pool so the kids decided to swim for an hour...

After an hour of swimming... we headed back to the cottage to change...
because the ski lift was open....
to take them up to the start of the Crystal Coaster!!

The kids absolutely LOVED it!!! Clara had to ride with either Jeff or me, so we took turns taking her up. Alex was tall enough to ride alone. He was lined up to go up again as soon as he made it to the bottom.

Clara and Jeff played some tag while we waited for Alex to come down again...
Next was lunch.

Then it was time to suit up...

to do some rock wall climbing...

They still haven't made it to the top but they made it higher this year. Jeff attempted it too, but I'll spare you the photos! :-)

After the climbing, we rented a GPS unit and went geocaching in the woods...
here they are checking out the geocache we found...
Returning the GPS unit put us back by the Crystal Coaster alpine slide so everyone went up again. Jeff and Clara had a bit of a spill so Clara was done with the slide for a while. She decided to do some tumbling while waiting for Alex...
Next it was tie-dye time. They made Crystal Mountain t-shirts last year. This year they decided to tie-dye Crystal Coaster shirts...
While we waited for our shirts to soak in the hot water... we ordered a pizza to be delivered and returned to the cottage...
to hang out on the back deck...
and goof off on the screened-in porch...
The kids decided to come back inside...
and play a game of Chutes and Ladders on the window seat....
Jeff came back with their t-shirts...
we went on a frog hunt around the creek...
After pizza... we ventured out for ice cream...
that's when we noticed that the pool was open for another hour... so the kids ran home and put on their swimsuits.....
How's that for an action packed day???? And honestly... we didn't get to do everything we wanted to do.... that place is so amazing. I guess we'll just have to go back again next year!! I have some photos from Sunday to post too... I'll try to get to those soon!

We're off to art class!