Friday morning we went back to Devil’s Lake since we had such a good time there on Wednesday. We checked out South Shore first since I thought maybe I could get a better picture of the lake from there. After we determined that the water was warmer and it was shallower at North Shore, we drove up to North Shore to spend our morning there. We hung out on the other side of the chateau this time so that I could lay on the beach while Dave and Elodie played in the water. We had lunch with Dad and Jan, who brought us fixins for sandwichs.
After naptime, we joined Dad, Jan, Aunt Ann, Uncle John, Jim and Diane for dinner at House of Embers in Wisconsin Dells, famous for its barbeque and Friday night Fish Fry. Elodie was a bit of a handful. In retrospect, taking your kid out to dinner, where she’s confined for the entire night the night before you put her in a car seat for 17 hours isn’t the wisest idea. Dave and I both got the 1/3 rack of ribs and I thought they were quite good.
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Friday, September 11, 2009
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Day 6: Wednesday, 9/9/09: Lake, dinner on Wisconsin River
We spent the morning at Devil’s Lake with Aunt Ann, dad, and Jan. Other than the haze from the California fires that’s plagued us since we arrived, it was absolutely beautiful and the weather was perfect. The road into the lake is covered in trees and Elodie calls it a “tree tunnel.” The north shore is very shallow for a ways out so it was perfect for Elodie to run around in. Dad rented a row boat and took Dave out to his childhood swimming rock. Aunt Ann went swimming and Elodie ate some lunch. When the men made it back, we all had lunch on the picnic bench in the shade. Elodie went swimming with daddy one more time before we left.
We tried to put Elodie down for her afternoon nap at the farm but we weren’t very successful…in fact, not at all. Aunt Ann and I looked through one of her mom’s travel photo albums from 1936, when she was only 22 years old along with a photo album she started when she was 16 years old that also has dad and Aunt Ann’s baby pictures in it.
Then we headed over to Uncle John’s brother Jim’s house in Prarie du Sac on the Wisconsin River. We even got to take the Merrimac Ferry on the way to their house. It was a great dinner with fun company. The highlight of the evening for Elodie was Jim’s restored player piano. She loved dancing to the piano as Jim obliged by picking out different songs. I even got to take some decent sunset pictures of the Wisconsin River from their boat dock.
Click here for a slideshow of PICTURES from Day 6.
We tried to put Elodie down for her afternoon nap at the farm but we weren’t very successful…in fact, not at all. Aunt Ann and I looked through one of her mom’s travel photo albums from 1936, when she was only 22 years old along with a photo album she started when she was 16 years old that also has dad and Aunt Ann’s baby pictures in it.
Then we headed over to Uncle John’s brother Jim’s house in Prarie du Sac on the Wisconsin River. We even got to take the Merrimac Ferry on the way to their house. It was a great dinner with fun company. The highlight of the evening for Elodie was Jim’s restored player piano. She loved dancing to the piano as Jim obliged by picking out different songs. I even got to take some decent sunset pictures of the Wisconsin River from their boat dock.
Click here for a slideshow of PICTURES from Day 6.
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