10th Anniversary Trip

It has been full force busy around here with the school year starting and I have let the blog get way too far behind. Hopefully, I can recover! :) Here goes......

Dave took a couple of days off for our 10th anniversary and we spent a long weekend in Lafayette, where our marriage started. It was a wonderful way to celebrate and we had a great time! First up, we went to the bridge where Dave proposed and he surprised me with a new ring!

Eva's own sunglasses!

Then we enjoyed the fun little (and free!) zoo. Dave and Benjamin playing with the water globe.

Anna and Collin loved all these animal statues.

Eva loved this little elephant that shot water out of his trunk...

We got to pet an armadillo!

Our monkey loved watching the real monkeys.

An eagle's wingspan is a little bigger than our big Benjamin.

Two eagles!

We had a fun time at the zoo!

Pretty Anna with some pretty flowers.

We were shocked to see that they had torn down the hospital I worked at and that Benjamin was born!

We picked a hotel that had its own water park and had a great time swimming, sliding, and splashing.

Collin was so funny....he would hold his nose as he began coming down the slide and then let go before he hit the water.

Anna got her brothers with this water-shooting crocodile and you should have heard her gleeful laughs. It was perfect! (she deserves to get them every once in awhile!)

Good job, Anna! You got them good!

Eva loved this!

There was a huge bucket hanging from the ceiling that would slowly fill with water. Once it was full, an alarm would buzz to tell you it was going to dump out so the kids could run under the platform and let it soak them (or us adults could move away and not get splashed). It would mist Eva a little bit sometimes and she got to where she knew what the buzzer meant and she would look up with this very discerning look. It was hilarious!!

Ahoy, matey!

Anna loved the tunnel that went under the ship and was often hidden away in there.

We had dinner our first night with our friends from college, Mike and Lindsay and their two kids Ruby and Burke. We spent the next day with them at the dairy farm and the kids hit it off big time! They LOVED each other!!

Merry-go-round, cow style.

Racing to set the cow up for milking as fast as the professionals do.

They loved this big bouncy trampoline thing!

On the bus to go see the cows.

Waiting for their grilled cheese lunch.

Train ride.

It was adorable how good of buddies Collin and Burke became! They were two peas in a pod, for sure.

Rock wall climbing on a milk jug.

Benjamin was the only one to make it to the top and did it with no trouble. Here he is ringing the bell.

JUMP!

Later that evening, our friends were so kind and kept all four kids so Dave and I could have an evening just the two of us to celebrate our 10 wonderful years of marriage. We did some shopping and got new Purdue clothes, drove all around campus, and enjoyed a wonderful Thai (my favorite!) dinner together.

Here they are standing under the bucket that I mentioned earlier that would dump on them. It took Anna a day to become brave enough to try it and once she did, she loved it...just like her wild brothers!

I forgot my camera when we visited campus (hard to believe, I know!) so we had to go with the good ole camera phone. We let the kids run through the fountain (it was super hot, so we knew their clothes would dry quickly). It was quite the fun sight to watch them get so soaked so quickly. We were slightly envious as we suffered the heat without the cool water.

Anna looked so beautiful posing for me on the hills by the Union. I can remember spending lots of time here in college studying and she looked so grown up, I can envision her doing the same there one day.

The boys being silly at dinner.

We took the kids to the popular restaurant Triple X that's famous for their root beer and got them their first root beer floats.

They were a hit!

It was a wonderful anniversary trip!