The Salanoa's: Wisconsin Dells

Monday, July 31, 2017

Wisconsin Dells

We decided to make a last minute trip to the Wisconsin Dells. None of us had ever been to Wisconsin and Monty heard that the Dells was a fun place for families. It did not disappoint. I will say driving through Iowa wasn't the best, but Wisconsin really is beautiful...in the summer.

Of course, we evening before we were suppose to leave the sink clogged. Monty and I tried everything, but nothing worked. We decided to stay through the weekend and have a plumbing agency come Monty morning to fix it. Sure enough the clog was about 150 down. I love the way a kitchen looks when your sink clogs--your kitchen goes to POT! No pun intended. But, $250 later the clog was fixed, we got the kitchen cleaned up and our trip began.

We began with a fun picnic at Devils lake. Followed by a fun canoeing adventure on the lake. The wind kicked up while we were out on the lake which is an experience none of us will soon forget. Poor Tyler was in my Canoe and he worked so hard to get us back to sore. He was super positive the whole time. He never got mad that as hard as I was trying I wasn't helping much. Instead he was very encouraging. Thanks Tyler. Monty said Kyle was not as positive in his boat, but either way we all made it back to sore just as the wind stopped. Go figure. We rewarded ourselves with Ice Cream and Cheese Curd. Super delicious!!

We then decided to take a hike. We don't have much hiking in our neck of the woods, so a hike was refreshing.

At least for most of us. Makai wasn't super excited, but Dad tightened his shoes to stop at least a part of the complaining!

Stripling warriors!

Or goofy monkeys!

Hiking with Makai is like hiking with a ball and chain! More like 50 balls.

One step at a time!!

Pure torture!!

This kid is just a goof ball!!!

At the top of Devils lake!

Both these boys had tingling feet and neither really enjoying the height.

Me just being goofy because the height didn't bother me as much.

Kyle loves to have his picture taken.

We went to Noah's Ark. A water park in the Dells. It was so fun because off of us could go play together. We've never been able to play as a family. In the past we've had to have someone stay with the little kids while someone else goes with the big kids, but now all the kids are big. It was a blast. Kory was scared to ride several rides, but did it. Makai just wanted to do the lazy river and wave pool, but did the rides with us and then it started to rain! And it rained hard!! I didn't get a lot of pictures because we were having so much fun together. After these photos we left as they closed the park because of lightening, but the boys were all hungry and ready to leave by then.

After dinner that night Makai was totally exhausted! These innocent photos of complete contentedness are priceless.

Only in Wisconsin!! At a random gas station.

Monty found out that the Packers were having summer practice so we drove up to Greenbay and watched the Packers practice for a while. When you have a house of boys sports is always part of any family vacation.

Trey has no shame sporting his Dolphins at while in Green Bay.

A fun lunch afterward along Lake Michigan

Our boys love water. It wasn't as fun as the beach, but Makai and Trey got all the way in. We stopped for a bit and let them play before beginning our drive home.

A classic Wisconsin picture. Beautiful sunset. The picture isn't nearly as gorgeous and the real thing.

As we fueled up the last morning to drive home we ran into this guy. This maching was for corn and Monty learned that it took 400 gallons to fill up!!

Schubert's in Mt Horeb Wisconsin. The troll capital of the United states and the best breakfast ever!! It was such a cute restaurant. We have a great country. So fun to travel anywhere and find good food, friendly people and people just trying to do their best.