Well, we just returned home from our annual trip up to Village West in Okoboji! Can't say that anyone is glad to be home, though! The week up there seems to go so fast... next thing you know, it is time to go back to work... YUCK!!This was perhaps the "rainiest" year we have had up there in the 8 years we have been going up. At least most of the rain was in the middle of the night, so it didn't really disrupt our day plans much! Even if it had, there are plenty of indoor activities to do there as well!
We arrived up to Okoboji last Sunday afternoon, and the first thing Brianna did was put her swimsuit on and head down to the beach!!! It was so hot that day, and the beach was crowded! Brianna did get in the lake and swim around for about 45 minutes or so -- we were told the water temperature in the lake was just above 50* or so... cold, but you got used to it fast enough if you kept moving around! My mom came up later in the day and stayed with us until Tuesday evening. We kept her busy going to movies, swimming, golfing, playing games, etc. As a matter of fact, the kids were so busy doing everything on Sunday and Monday that everyone was tired and in bed by 10:00 Monday night!!!
My sister, Jenny, and her daughter, Sydney, came up on Tuesday morning, along with Jenny's boyfriend, Matt, and his sons, Luke and Noah. They stayed with us until Wednesday afternoon. The kids went swimming, did some craft activities, played on the beach, swam some more (!) and we also had a cookout!
On Thursday and Friday, we didn't have any company so the kids were bored. We went swimming some more, saw a couple movies, went miniature golfing, and then went out to eat. We let the kids pick the restaurant, and they picked McDonalds! Of all places!! We can eat there any time! But we ate at McDonalds, stopped at a WalMart to pick up a few things, then headed back to the resort for... you guessed it, more swimming!
On Saturday, my uncle Bill came up from Emmetsburg with his two daughters, Jasmine and Collette. Both girls are close to Brianna in age, so they had a lot of fun together. We went and watched The Bee Movie in the movie theater, had a cookout for lunch, went swimming most of the afternoon, then we decided to make a trip over to Arnold's Park and see what was going on over there. Arnold's Park is just across the lake from where we were staying, and it is a very busy "area" with an amusement park, several museums, lots of little clothing shops, food places, bars, etc. We parked and walked down to the water and out on the docks to watch all the boats. Then we decided to walk up the The Emporium, which is a large three story building with restaurants, bars, clothing shops, an arcade, etc. We did end up buying the three girls matching Okoboji shirts in one of the stores! (see the picture above!) Bill and his girls decided to go home after we had been walking all over down there. We stayed and 
went in to the amusement park and Zach and Brianna rode all the rides and played games. We ran into "neighbors" from the resort and even saw people from Sioux City who were up to Okoboji for the weekend! We finally got back to the resort shortly after 9PM and the kids decided to go spend more of their money in the arcade instead of swimming one last time. When we got back to our townhouse, the kids watched TV and fell asleep while CJ and I cleaned the place up and packed our stuff to get ready to leave in the morning.Zach and Brianna were pretty good about getting up this morning and helping load the car. We were ready to leave by 9:30AM, but Brianna had some coupons for the gift shop that she had gotten while playing games in the arcade. She had close to $6 that she could spend in there with her coupons, so we had to wait until 10AM when they opened. She got a few things with her "money", then we headed back to Sioux City. We got home about noon... I just got done unpacking and Brianna is already over at a friend's house, so I thought I would get on and update the blog before our week started up and we were busy again!
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