The crazy travelers!!

So, here's an update to last week....Courtney ended up leaving on my birthday, June 17th, for his 620 mile trip across Wisconsin, and I got a phone call on June 18th around 7:30pm telling me he's calling it quits after 117ish miles in his day. Now, you have to understand my husband. In order for him to pull the plug on anything in his life, especially a pre-planned 10 days of vacation and an incredible chance to create history on a 1st time ride by gravel/single track(mountain biking, for the non-biking people) and to get to do it in a different state to accomplish this...my hubby is more than game!! After getting lost from his riding companions and taking an hour long detour, he decided to call it quits and after 2 hours of a combo of his parents and mine and myself searching for a hotel in the town of Prairie du Chien, just across the river, which happened to be having it's annual "Festival" which apparently the entire state of Wisconsin shows up for, we found him a small room 7 miles outside of town to take a hot shower and sleep in a real bed for the night. So as luck would have it, I got to travel to Wisconsin for the first time, yeah, I know, I'm sheltered, with my Bob(the oldest and youngest hanged w/ Mimi and Umpa for the day complete w/ garage sales of buying things we don't need and they're first bowling experience...which I can't wait to witness myself:-)!! I must say, taking a 5 year old on a 4 hour out and back road trip was a bit scary, but she was the biggest trooper(mind you, I would have lost my mind w/ all 3...I know, you thought I was super Mom, but guess again:-)! We had a nice 2 hour layover in Jim's Bar in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin w/ lunch and a couple cold ones, then took a small tour of the crazy roads Courtney explored the day before. Now, I was very excited for him to be back with us, but I feel terrible that he wasn't able to accomplish what was his hope for his week....there's always next year in this house:-).

Sidenote-I never realized how beautiful and hilly(mountain-like) northern Iowa and Wisconsin was, but WOW!!! That is some beautiful country and if you are anything of a landscape/bridge fanatic like I am(thank you Bob Ross), then you will just love that area of God's awesome world he created for us!!!!

So, that brings us to having a Happy Father's Day w/ our favorite Daddy and a great visit with Uncle Chris and Auntie Annie, to decide that the end of this week we'd take ourselves a little road trip to visit them and the new house!! So excited to just get out of DM proper for a day or two, don't care to where, but excited to do whatever is offered:-)!! So on Thursday, we will load the family into our little Fit(and this time it will be quite a fit), all 6 of us...Peanut included...to go and do our 2nd road trip of the summer! So fun and hopefully be back in town for the Boone 3/6 hour on Saturday to see our men in black and our PRC girls kick some serious butt to represent DM this year:-)!!

That brings us up to speed, other than the dog chewing Daddy's Father's Day gift(a new wallet), trust me, not the happiest Daddy ever, and the crazy wacky dog who loves tabletops, countertops, anything that is off limits, every trash can in the Casa de Hilton and has officially learned her name, although I think it's more screamed than spoken lately....we're golden:-)!! Have a great rest of your week and I can't wait to share our fun adventures from this weekend, because you know it will be interesting:-)!!