An off day ...

We (Jim/Laurie and Cyndie and I) had a great time last night on our date! We ate at the Blue Cow restaurant ... it wasn't as good as the last time we went there, I'm not sure we'll be back for a while. After that we went for a walk starting over by the Cove/Gilbert's and walked East/South. It was a section of the lake that Cyndie and I had never walked before. We saw several really nice houses and had a good time chitchatting. I'd say that by the time we got home, however, we were all pretty tired. The kids had a good time with the babysitter. It was a new one, Miss Hannah, whose mother will be Tim's pre-school teacher this fall. It was Maddi and Caitlyn's first "real" babysitter (not a family member or friend of the family).

Today we all kind of got up a little later and had a slow breakfast. Then headed to downtown for the "Art in the Park" fair and library book sale. We browsed around for a bit, then each family bought a box of kids books for $3. We probably got 10 or 15 books, so that was a great deal. Afterwards we played at the big elementary school's playground for a bit and then headed home.
This afternoon, the Zones borrowed the car and are exploring the local towns while Cyndie is sleeping and the kids watching a movie. It's a nice little break for the kids.

Emma has had several traumatic events recently. On Wednesday evening while we were out on a walk, she and Maddison were running next to eachother and got their feet tangled. Ems bit it on the asphalt and ended up with a really good skinned knee. She was pretty distraught for a while, but is doing better now. The other was when Lee was here she had a wasp attack her by the condo pool. Then there was another wasp out by the Dragon's Lair a couple days later. Anyway, the "bug" events are probably worse in that now she doesn't want to go out to the Dragon's Lair anymore. She just now asked me if there are wasps in winter ... implying that she doesn't want to go outside until then! I think we'll get her past this, but it's a little frusterating right now.

The big upcoming event will be when we stay the night out at the Grand Geneva on Monday night. The big thing about that is that we're going to the waterpark there before and after on both Monday and Tuesday. I think the kids will have a really good time with that!