Our weekend away

The last weekend of September, Arlen and Debbie took the kids for us. Arlie and I drove up to Hinckley on Friday night. We stayed at Arlen and Debbie's house there. We decided to go to the Casino after we cleaned up puke (Rio ate a bunch of veggies out of the garden before we left and got sick in the car...it was delightful :( ). We enjoyed the noise and slots for about an hour, then went back to the house. Saturday we drove up to Duluth. The leaves were perfect. It was so fabulous. We went on walks through the woods, shot the 22, played games, read books, watch a movie, and kayaked at sunset. We slept late every day and relaxed like crazy. When we went on our walks we'd play silly games like, if you had to choose this or that, what would it be and why. We also played the, if you could be any animal...what would it be and why...or any vehicle..etc. Arlie seemed to have a recurring theme with his answers. His animal was a bear, because it got to live in the woods and not much threatened it. His vehicle was a broken down truck, because it would get parked by the woods. Do you think my husband might like the woods? Also on our walks, he seemed to find every deer stand, but not only find them, he'd have to climb up into them and tell me if they were a good stand or not. I honestly thought it was super cute and loved it! Sunday we had to leave earlier than we would've liked to because we had two kickball games, but on the way home we decided that we would like at least one weekend a month like that :) Something we'll just have to dream about!






I took these while thinking of you, dad!