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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Only if you're bored.....

Here is a little Paulsen camping entertainment....
the air mattress pump....
watch out the spit kind of flys around....
they are each about 20 seconds long.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

that over the weekend we also floated the Upper Iowa River?
That is where "being cold" met "being wet"
creating "cold and wet".
YUCK!
BUT!!!!
The second day was much warmer and much more fun!
Here are a few pics!

Daniel rows the canoe with me perched in the middle in a lounge chair.

My bad back CANNOT row a boat!

(sorry no pics, I don't trust and of them that close to the water with my Cash)

We rented Kayaks for the boys!

Which, it's no surprise...

they often treated them like bumper boats.

Jedd only eats when he is actually hungry.
So his McDonald's burgers (yes TWO burgers..... that is what boys do once they hit 9.5 yrs old) made it half way through our journey before he was ready to eat it!
I am very sure his hands were not clean at this point.
See the mud?

Then we hit the highlight of the day!
A beautiful spring entering the river!

Hey look! It's me!
Again, very glad you can't smell me in this photo.

Jedd is pretending to go over the edge... which in reality...

is THIS high up!
See him at the top!?

THE END!

Don't you wish you were there??

It made using the porta*potty all weekend, worth it!

BTW!

I found a $50 bill in there!!

NO JOKE!!!

But I feel compelled to put it in the plate on Sunday!

Even though it came from a porta*potty!

*smile*

Don't tell the ushers where it came from!

he-he!

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

This weekend was all about....

being cold

and wet

and muddy

and really wet

drying feet by the fire

drying socks on the line

eating smores with dirty hands

and getting them even stickier

getting your smore stolen while you're not looking

hard drinkin' (diet caff free dew)

really hard

did I mention getting really dirty?

... you know, all the things little boys
and their daddy's
dream of.

Oh and how could I forget...
no running water,
or electricity
and one blue porta*potty.
At least it was the cleanest, least stinky one I have ever used.

God is watching out for me.
Really.

Fish... smelly fish. Just for you ED!

Russ caught a nice trout!

And a baby bass.

okay, so what did you expect from Paulsens?
Flowers and more flowers?
No!
Fish and more fish!

He just doesn't even care that this is a carp.
Daniel caught an even bigger carp than Jedd's but the are so ugly I refrained from taking a picture of Daniel's carp!

I would do a close up of this one....