Kalamari ... I mean ... Kalahari

This past weekend was my work's national sales conference. for the first time this year we were able to bring family. it was held at a indoor/outdoor waterpark resort called kalahari. it was so nice. the first night i was w/out gary and lucas, then they arrived on friday afternoon. lucas loved playing on the one orange slide, which happened to be the biggest kiddie slide outside. but, he would have nothing else of the others. he must've gone up that slide 100 times this weekend. gary and i were able to just relax in our chairs and get some sun. i pretty much skipped out on all the meetings ... but, with 700 ppl there, i doubt anyone noticed me.

gary is silly. :)

this is a part of the outdoor waterpark where luke played. they had rented out the whole place for us and we had a bbq.

you cant really see the indoor water park very well. but, suffice to say, this place was huge. i got enough exercise for the month just walking to our room.

this is a girl i work w/. her name is edwina. yea, pretty unique name i thought too. i think we were both a little stoked to be away from our 4 year olds for the night ... can you tell by our cheesey grins?

this is katherine. she works w/ me too, but we never really hung out before. we had a lot of fun riding the indoor slides the first night. after we ate at our "around the world" dinner, which consisted of entirely too much food. i think they thought i was a little too excited b/c going up the stairs to the slides i took two steps at a time. :) then, one time we realized we went up the wrong steps, so i thought we should just jump the fence. well, edwina is all of 4ft 11.5 inches. so, she couldn't make it over. NO WORRIES! i grabbed her under the arms and pulled her over.

anyway, it was a fun weekend all around.

Cedar Point and a Family Reunion

In no particular order, here is what we've been up to the past couple weeks. Gary's family reunion this past weekend. They had a slip n slide that Lucas couldn't get enough of. Then, a pond with a ton of fish, that Lucas enjoyed visiting.

The weekend prior, we went to Cedar Point. We had a great time and gary and I got plenty of time to ride the adult rides too. We are both big roller coaster fans. And, luckily Lucas is too. Lucas loved the kiddie roller coasters. One was actually pretty rough and took you sideways and Lucas just held his hands up with a huge smile and laughing. They videotape you now on them, so I bought the DVD and Lucas loves to watch it.

We stayed until it closed, so as you can see, he was EXHAUSTED! The hotel we stayed in left much to be desired. But, I guess it's just once a year.

The first pic is us at breakfast the morning after Cedar Point. I'm too lazy to put this stuff in chronological order.

This is Michele and I on our own while we gave Gary and her cousin the kids. A much needed break for us. The lines were so short since the day was supposed to give us a ton of rain (which we got a one minute drizzle). We waited no more than 1/2 hr for a ride the whole time!

And, yes, Lucas is trying to smile. He is not throwing a fit here. He's a strange child. ;)