More Is Caught than Taught: Traverse City-2011

For Christmas Steve received a weekend at a Kiteboarding Camp in Traverse City...it just so happened to land on the weekend of his birthday!! So...early Friday morning we packed up and headed up north for a weekend of fun and adventure. The weather was iffy, but we were confident that we could make the weekend fun regardless.

One of the blessing of traveling with three children fairly close in age (and stature) is that we can all still fit in one hotel room! Mommy & Daddy in one bed and all three kids in another!! Those benefits will soon be fading, but we'll take advantage of them for as long as we can!!

Gotta' love a chance to play in the hotel pool!

Jake & Connor strap up for a Zipline Ride!!

It's actually a lot higher than the picture makes it look...

Mission Accomplished!!

Aye, Matey!

Downtown Traverse City has a quaint old fashioned theater that was showing this movie for 25 cents!! Can't beat a family show for $1.25 (you can't even get a drink for that at the theater back home!)

We spent some time at a bookstore down town. Just looking and reading books.

I gotta' train up these kids to love a good book ...and a good bookstore!

Paigey took this picture of Daddy on the morning of his birthday.

We took him out to breakfast and gave him a couple fun gifts.

Best buddies!

Nothing like a good old fashion PILLOW FIGHT!!!!!!

These two are just too cute!

You can't go to TC without a visit to Pirates Cove...

Putt-Putt

Watch out for those hooks!! These are some mean Pirates!!

BEWARE! of the Princess Pirate!

Paigey and Con all ready to go on the ropes course.

Such a brave, daring little girl!!

(I see a lot of fun in our future together...plane jumping for her 18th birthday, maybe!!!)

Bumper Boats~

Jake squirting the ticket taker!! (Little Rascal!)

We hiked a couple miles through this forest to get to the water where Daddy was Kiteboarding. Paige never complained, but pushed her way through the trails with great determination and sense of adventure.