Trip to Wisconsin

Last weekend we went to Bryan and Carissa's to help them do some painting. They are going to be selling their home in Racine and moving to New Orleans this August. Austin and Ariel were very well behaved and even got to help some. Of course I think their favorite thing the whole time we were there was the rats. They loved playing with them and watching them run around. In fact, the first time Carissa got them out for the kids, Ariel went and put her nose right up to the big one's nose. It was amazing!

We also went bowling (Bryan is in a league right now and got to show off some of his skills) It was very interesting trying to bowl at 6 1/2 months pregnant. I chose not to finish my 2nd game and instead let it be a free for all where people could throw what ever they wanted to (mostly Phil try to throw the ball as hard as he could). We used two lanes so that the kids could enjoy bowling with the bumpers up.

Ariel had to have a pink ball no matter what, and Austin got to wear his first pair of bowling shoes. They had a great time rolling the ball down the ramp and dancing to the music that was playing on the jukebox behind us. Then we went over to Lake Michigan to show the kids. Austin was amazed by all the boats that were parked at the docks and Ariel didn't like it too much. She started shaking and wanted to be help like she did when we were at Lake Erie last summer. Something about big bodies of water seems to get to her. But if I remember right she loved being out on Cannadota Lake in my Dad's boat - hm maybe it's the fact that she can't see the other side?

Our trip home was the most painful one that we have had since the kids were tiny. They were both out of sorts and Ariel was being especially needy and crying alot. So what should have been a 4 hour trip ended up being about 7 hours. We did have some fun though. For lunch we were looking all over for a Giordano's Pizza and ended up going to the Rainforest Cafe. It was so cool inside with huge fish tanks and gorillas that moved. Our next big stop was at Fair Oaks Farms. It's a dairy farm that doesn't use antibiotics or growth hormones on it's cows. While we were there we watched a 4-D movie about the farm and then did some walking around. The kids jumped on a huge pillow of air and we sampled some cheese.

The funny thing is there weren't any cows around. I guess that you have to take a bus trip to go see them :)