Tuesday, June 19, 2012

A Weekend Away

This past weekend, we went to Minnesota to visit friends. It was a nice mini-vacation. We had a doctor appointment for Audrey first, though. We finally found out that she had shingles, it wasn't contagious, and there was medication for it. Exactly what we wanted to hear! So, we hit the road. Our first stop was Chippewa Falls. We met our friends Brooke and Steve there (they were also going to Minnesota for the weekend) and went on the Leinenkugel Brewery tour. We had done the tour five years ago, the last time we visited the same friends in Minnesota, but it's a fun tour. Lydia even paid attention for a lot of it.

The next day we headed to Minnesota. The first stop was the zoo, which was great! They have a dolphin there, which the girls had never seen before in person, so they thought that was neat. There was a dinosaur exhibit that terrified Charlie. Audrey begged to go on the monorail, so we did that too.

On Sunday we went to a water park. To our surprise, Lydia loved going down the slides. She usually is more cautious of things like that and needs a lot of convincing, but she walked right to the top and went down without hesitation. We were so proud! Audrey loved floating on the lazy river, laying on my lap. It was so relaxing. I found out that while I was on the lazy river with Audrey, Lydia had decided she was brave enough to go off the diving board and discovered she really can't swim and a lifeguard had to rescue her. Not too long after that, it started to rain with no sign of letting up, so we had to go. The girls really enjoyed themselves, though, and really want to go to a water park again soon.

Monday morning we headed home. We stopped in Madison for lunch with Grandma Deb and then were very happy to get home!

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