Lake Geneva - Day 1

So, it's been a while...Hi. How are you? Glad to hear it... :)

A trip to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin for another family reunion has given me another excuse to write up funny family quips and post a few hundred pictures to a blog. You can't wait, can you??

We started the trip by leaving our white lab, Maizy, in the very capable hands of our pet sitter, Collette. She even came a few hours early to pick Maizy up and take her to her very first doggie bday party at the kennels...apparently, Maizy was the star attraction jumping in and out of the pool (her first water experience) and catching all kinds of doggie meatball and bday cake treats (I don't even want to know the status of our new Master bedroom carpet after last night!)

After we said our goodbyes to Maizy and the kitties, Indy and Poly, we headed an hour east to Omaha to catch up with Cousin Angie and her 2 girls, McKenzie (12) and Ireland (9). We got some groceries, watched a DVD and tried to get the giddy girls to sleep before we left on our road trip.

5 girls and Drew. He called it the Estrogen-mobile. We all survived the 8 hour road trip in my Honda Pilot, Sylvia, with only a couple of potty breaks and one slight detour about 8 miles in the wrong direction. That Drew...he's a quick one. :)

We're here now getting settled in, only to get up and go to back to some local grocery store to stock up our kitchen cabinets and frig with food for the week.

It's nice NOT to be sitting in car on the "sun side" trying to stay cool with the A/C down really low freezing the people on the other side right out.

And be sure to ask the girls what they named all the fishies in the hotel lobby's tank: Flo, Bulgie, Peek-a-Boo, Dead or Alive, Finder, Ronald, Sparkles, Flubber, Chip, Speckles, Midget, Airhead, Barracuda and Shiny - which one is which, the rest of us may never know.

Pics and a summary of the 2nd half of the day yet to come. :)

Lots and lots of family and lots and lots of "Now how are we related exactly? And who do you belong to? And how you've grown since we last saw you!" It was cute...and it was LOUD! And it was fun...lots of cousins pics. Ireland says "Loudness runs in our family." And I would have to agree. The indoor pool was cool...the outdoor pool closed early...and according to the kids, the hot tub was scalding hot...but they still sat in it, of course! Tomorrow look like rain in the afternoon, but there's still talk of walking around "downtown" Lake Geneva and renting a boat - the "older crowd" is thinking pontoon, and the kids want a speed boat for tubing! We'll see what happens then.

Click here to see pics from today

Later!