Friday, August 1st around noon we all loaded in the new camper and off we went. (Don't worry, the girls are wearing seatbelts and it didn't take Reagan long to stake out her space on the couch.)
Our first stop was in LeMars at the Wells Blue Bunny Ice Cream Parlor.....
Maggie has been BEGGING to sleep in a Walmart parking lot since we got the camper.....hey, a girls gotta have goals :) So after a long day of driving....she got her wish....
Admittedly it wasn't quite as exciting as she had hoped, but she was glad we did it. We will likely do it again some day. Makes for a good safe place to sleep on a long drive! We were up early and off again...this time headed for Oshkosh.
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| Maggie was very proud of her photo bomb :) |
After a few hours of driving through Amish country (we saw a horse and buggy pulling a ski boat, I wish I was quick enough to get a picture), we arrived at the largest airshow in the world.
Arnie and Maggie were in pilot dork heaven. I can't even really describe how BIG the show was. There were conservatively 5000 campers parked in the fields around the airport and miles and miles or airplane vendors, military planes, experimental planes, pretty much anything that could fly....we could have used a couple more days to explore it all.
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| This is the start of the "campground", it went on and on and on. |
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| Maggie spent more then an hour learning to preflight. She was supposed to find 10 things wrong with the plane, but leave it to her to be thorough....she find 12 :) |
Maggie made good friends with a guy at the Embarar (sp?) booth. They make luxury private jets, she had to redeem herself from the Walmart thing :) Anyway, right before the Saturday night airshow she ran into him again, and he offered us special seats for the airshow. That road in front of us is the runway, most of the people around us are the families of the pilots. The night show was really cool.
Sunday we explored some more, got SOAKED in a down pour and reloaded the camper to head for "WinsConson" as Gracie calls it (she means the Dells). Next time we go to Oshkosh we'll allow more time, it was really something to see and it was definitely on Arnie's bucket list.
Our first day in the Dells was really rainy. We played in the camper, got settled and Maggie and I did a little shopping...first on the list was raincoats...
The rest of the week was spent visiting waterparks, playing at the campground and enjoying the beautiful weather.
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| I think Reagan pulled rank of Gracie for cartoon watching seats :) |
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| I love this picture of my 3 favorite girls! |
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| Everybody needs to ride a Duck Boat at least once in their life...glad we can check that off the list. |
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| We couldn't leave baby behind while we went on a hike! |
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| Gracie wanted to switch chairs with me so she could be in the "3" chair. |
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| Gracie was a little vacationed out....until.... |
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| ....she found this to perk her back up! |
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| Very lady like Miss Gracie! |
Before we knew it, it was time to load up and head for home! Reagan was going to be sure she got her seat for the ride home!
See you later "WinsConson"!
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