alternative fun

we spent the 2nd half of our vacation in michigan -

along with stacey's brother's family we stayed at a house right on the beach of lake michigan.

it was a beautiful location ...

with an AMAZING view ...

HOWEVER,

it rained pretty much the whole time we were there ;)

it didn't stop the boys from playing in the water

(and it actually created AMAZING waves for them to jump in)

see next post ...te he he

BUT ...

it did force us to find a few other things to fill our time ...

SO ...

one day we drove over to kalamazoo and visited AIR*ZOO

AIR*ZOO is basically an interactive museum with

* a TON of cool planes

* bits and pieces relating to space travel

and

* a few rides thrown in here and there

the boys thought it was very cool

drew was the only one to REALLY do rides -

but that didn't stop ben and alex from having fun as well.

just to name a few things they did -

they sat in a fighter jet cockpit ...

they pretended they were astronauts ...

they stood under a rocket engine ...

AND ...

they got to watch a little craziness;)
i wanted drew to try the space ball
BUT that meant that i had to try it too ;)

spinning myself crazy wasn't EXACTLY how i thought i'd be spending my afternoon ....
BUT it was a fun break from the swimming when it's 60 degrees out that we had started the day with :)

the things we do for our kids ;)

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seeing as though we were already in kalamazoo,

it ONLY made sense that we drive the little bit extra to see the lees

we don't get to see them enough -

SO why not meet up for a nice, calm, quiet dinner with 7 kids ;)

HA!

thanks for the fun night out guys!