Dinner with Frank

Yesterday, we dropped the boys off at my sister's, and Brian and I headed to the Wisconsin Dells. We hit downtown, and had lunch at Macs before checking into our room at the Sunset Bay Resort. I've got to be honest -- the Wisconsin Dells is probably the last place we'd pick to get away without our children. But we had important plans that evening. Our friends Maria & Robbie had reserved the Seth Peterson Cottage and they invited us over for dinner! The Seth Peterson Cottage is a small vacation residence on Mirror Lake, built by Frank Lloyd Wright. It's such a special and unique opportunity to be able to rent it, and we were so excited to get the invitation to visit them for the evening. Maria made a delicious dinner, and even had a dessert with a birthday candle for Brian, who's birthday is Monday. It was an amazing night.

Wisconsin Dells :: Too Small

Don't worry, C had just as much fun as everyone else. And I bet by the next time we take a trip to the Wisconsin Dells, he'll be able to ride everything too. Although, he did get a little bummed that he had to sit a couple out.

Wisconsin Dells :: The Park

Well, I didn't get many pictures of the water park. Probably because I was having too much fun in the water to worry about my camera. So much fun. As soon as we got to the Wilderness Resort, an adrenaline rush hit over all of us. We spent the entire day on the water slides, wave pool, lazy rivers. The kids even went on the go-karts. It was a blast. Late that night, we ordered pizza and hit the arcade. We were up at the crack of dawn (thanks to my boys), and were raring to go right when everything opened -- hence the empty photo of the wave pool. We spent a couple hours swimming and sliding again, then drove home. Exhausted.

Wisconsin Dells :: The Ducks

The three kids and I just got back from an overnight adventure with my mom and my sister's kids to the Wisconsin Dells. It was so much fun. The first stop we made before hitting our hotel/insane water park, was a one hour ride on the Original Wisconsin Ducks. It's cheesy and the jokes are always the same. But it's really fun. And if anything, it does give a glimpse into some of the scenery of the area. In fact, the rock formation in the photo above (Hawk's Beak) was featured in the 1962 Life Magazine.



Here's what a Duck looks like in the water. This one passed ours up.



And here's what it looks like on land. We had a really good time.