Indiana, Remington - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - Caboose Lake Campground

On Sunday night we had a wonderful time at the home of some new friends, Bill and Bonnie.  They live in a wonderfully renovated old farm house that is well over 100 years old.  Bonnie is an artist and an antique collector so they have lots of one of a kind things to surround them.  Bill treated us to a ride on his “margarita wagon”.  It’s a flatbed trailer with four benches attached that he pulls behind his 4-wheel drive tractor on trails he has cut through the woods of their 150+ acres.  What a great time that was!  The grandkids got to take a turn at driving the tractor so we got smacked by some branches a few times.  We ended the evening roasting hot dogs and marshmallows over a fire – couldn’t ask for better.

Monday it rained really hard and the wind blew until there were whitecaps on the lake.  It was a good day to stay inside and do some cooking and cleaning.  Greg is interested in the baseball college world series so he didn’t mind being inside either.  Tuesday afternoon we stayed with the twins while dad and mom worked.

This afternoon son AJ, Kim and the twins planned to come over to swim, but the lake was closed for swimming because all of the rain we have had lately had upset the bacteria balance.  They did get to enjoy the “Hippo” water slide though.  I think I read that this slide was at least 35 feet tall.  Just climbing up the stairs to the top looked a little daunting to me, but they did it over and over.

 

 

This is Jackson coming down.

 

And here is Braelynn.

Then it was girls against boys in a water balloon fight, not sure who won but they all got really wet.

 

 

Jackson and Braelynn enjoyed the smaller water slide too.  Jackson soaked me as he came down.

 

 

Rain and wind came through just as we were setting up to cook hot dogs over the fire.  We hauled everything inside and still had a very good supper.  The weather cleared after supper and we were able to get outside to roast marshmallows for some s’mores.

This little guy ended up in my chair with me.  I wasn’t so happy about that but Braelynn was thrilled.

 

 

Going to miss these guys when we leave.