We took a mini vacation up the North Shore a few days before the Easter weekend. Hope you don't mind my play by play. I guess I'm using this as a journal to remember our trip, so feel free to skip over my details!
We started out the vacation with a pit stop in Duluth to let the kids stretch. Good beginning to the vacation - a picture where everyone is looking in the general vicinity of the camera!
We had fun playing for a bit along the Lakewalk in Duluth. Campbell would've shoved little rocks in this hole for days if we let her. She said she was feeding the frogs. Who knows where she gets this stuff from. We hit some really nice weather, it was 70 by the lake!
Within 15 minutes of getting to the resort, Campbell & Daddy were in the pool. Campbell "swam" the length of the pool. While they were swimming, Blake and I strolled the grounds and enjoyed the view. Blake kept pointing & saying/yelling 'Da' to everything - he's becoming quite the pointer - using both hands to double point.
After swimming, we came back for a quick dinner of sloppy joes & then s'mores by the campfire. Blake grabbed Campbell's s'more, got marshmallows all over his hand & then started feeding Campbell his graham cracker. It's so fun to see the kids increasing interactions. Later that evening Campbell all of a sudden announced 'I'm all done so I need to go to bed.' Quite the day!
The next day was April Fool's Day...and I wish this was a joke. Seriously I would love to have a blog post without some sickness to report. Blake vomited after breakfast. He was fine the rest of the day, so not sure what was going on. Gabe was thinking it could have been because he drank some of the tap water? It did have a pretty funky taste.
What could be more fun than blowing bubbles? Having a bubble machine that blows them for you! Campbell had a blast making and chasing bubbles while Daddy & Blake took a nap.
Later that day since Blake seemed to be fine, we set out to go for a hike but Campbell fell asleep in the car, so we just drove along the shore and let her sleep. So much for trying to be outdoorsy! We had an early dinner at our favorite restaurant, New Scenic Cafe. Campbell had quite fancy the kids meal for $4! Gabe & I both got their special for the day - some kind of fish sandwich that was awesome.
2 big firsts for Mr. Blake on the trip - he learned how to clap and dance.
Blake hasn't re-enacted his little Elvis impersonation dance seen here in the video that was his first official dance, but now does the little baby bounce. Blake goes crazy for the sheep that plays Old MacDonald that you can kind of hear in the background of both videos. It's funny how it sent him into a dancing/clapping frenzy.
The last day at the resort, we took Blake for his first swim.
Blake loved his first dip in a pool.
Now that's quite the vacation...not 1, but 2 family pictures where everyone is looking at the camera!
On our way to Virginia, we tried to take the new road that cuts across to the Range, but we got lost. We were laughing because we were going south (versus northwest like we should have been going) and took tons of turns onto these short little country back roads that were super bumpy. We were having a good laugh about it and Campbell said: "Lucy's like, 'What's going on?' And I'm like, 'I have no idea!". It was hilarious to hear her use 'like' and have a mini conversation between herself and her doll Lucy.....she sounded *like* a teenager. Who knows where she got the *like* speech from.....haha!
It was a really fun and relaxing little vacation for us!
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