5.08.2009

Family Vacation Part 2a: Hanging with the Carmody's

For the past few years our vacations have been pretty consistent - a week on Shaw Island, a week on Banks Lake, and a week in Chelan. *Last year we used up a week vacation during my three-week maternity leave (!) so we missed out on Chelan.

This year we decided to change it up a bit, which opens us up to lots of possibilities, including a trip down the coastline. But Collin wasn't quite so sure: he couldn't fathom that we would cancel Banks Lake. After some discussion, it turned out what he was afraid he'd miss out on: 1. the cool play area at Steamboat Rock State Park (it is amazing, and I can understand why he'll miss it!), and 2. push-up pop ice cream from the little store at the campground!

S0, we accommodated his vacation "must haves" and spent an afternoon at a park in Vancouver and had push-up pops that night for dessert!! Great news: he's announced that this vacation was "so much even better than that other place we go!!"So after leaving the property in Cougar, we headed to Vancouver, Washington, for Part 2 of our vacation and stayed with our cousins Bobby and Rischa and their kids Paige 4 1/2 and Liam 2 1/2. (It was their family property we all stayed on in Cougar, so this was a continuation of our visit with them.)

Bobby played a game of Hide-And-Seek with the kids on the soccer field. ; )
Owen and Liam hiding behind the posts
Collin hiding across the field behind a tree
The dads took the big kids to the store for Make-Your-Own-Pizza fixings, and Rischa and I took the sleepy heads home for some quiet time (for us!).

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