Great Day!

Today was a fabulous day.  We slept in (as much as the parents of four children can expect to).  A called to us a little after 7:30 so we brought her into our bed and put on cartoons while we tried for a few more minutes of rest.  But A likes her calories and it wasn't long before she wanted to "Eat food, eat food..." Which she repeated in her very cute voice countless times until Johan relented and got up to make Dutch Pancakes.

After breakfast we decided to ride bikes down to the framers market and check out the action at Lake Ewauna, where the regional master's rowing contest was being held.  There are over 500 competitors in town for the event, so many boats.  I love being around those healthy competitive people so it was a lot of fun to see.  There was a memorial service being held at Veteran's Park at the same time.  A WWII ace with 18 confirmed kills.  The PC announcer at the rowing contest announced him as a WWII ace with 18 confirmed "Air Victories."  Whatever...

There was a fly-by, the missing man formation that never fails to give me chills.  I didn't get any good pictures of everyone on their bikes, but I got Ms. A wandering around in her helmet.

We decided to ride from Veteran's Park to Harbor Isles for lunch at Nibbley's.  Fun ride along the Link River Trail.  Yummy lunch at Nibbley's.  The boys borrowed some clubs so they could hit balls at the driving range while we waited for lunch.  We got to eat outside, and the weather was glorious!

Ms. A spotted a line of golf carts parked near the pro shop during a trip to the restroom.  I told her she could "drive" after we changed her diaper.  I didn't know how literal she was taking me at the time.  After our bathroom trip, she ran out for the golf carts and hopped into the driver seat.  I looked around and confirmed that the car was positioned in the "park" position and returned to our table which was less than 50 feet away.  At some point Ms. A changed golf carts...  As the waitress was complimenting me on my well behaved children and marveling at how well they waited for their food (the wait was really, really long) we heard a loud crashing sound...  Then I heard Johan exclaim, "You have got to be kidding!!!!"  Ms. A had found a car that was in the drive position.  She rammed one cart into another.  No damage, but thank goodness it wasn't in reverse, she would have taken out all of the outdoor seating along with our bikes...  The waitress burst out laughing, and I couldn't stop myself either.  The boys LOVED it!  No damage, no injuries, so it actually was pretty hilarious.

We headed for home, and nap time.

When we got home the boys got out their GPS for Geo-cacheing.  They looked online and found quite a few geo cache spots near our house.  They took off, and found one!  They were exhilarated, and went for more.  When A woke up, they loaded her into the stroller and went to look for another site called "Night Ranger."  They couldn't find it, so they came home disappointed.

Johan was working on dinner and they boys still wanted to find more.  The boys are pet sitting for some friends who are out of town for the weekend, and it was time to put the dogs into the house so I loaded A into the jogging stroller.  The boys hopped onto their bikes and I was going to get a run in while we checked the dogs and searched for another geo-cache site.  On the way C sliced his calf open with his peddle but wanted to "power through."  Dogs fed, we headed down to Matteo's to search for geo-cache.  First site we struck out...

Then,

This one was called "Rock On!"  So when we found this rock 20 feet away from the coordinates I told C to look under the rock.  He stuck his hand in and then yelled, "Ow!!!!  Something has me!"  I TOTALLY freaked out.  I jumped up and down, my heart was racing, and then he started laughing!  He totally got me!  For years he has tried to trick us but he always fails.  We have talked about having a poker face...well, he has got it!  The boys marveled later at my geo-caching skill they couldn't believe how good I was at it.  Who knew...the site called "Rock On" was under a rock...

We did find the geo-cache.  It was so fun.  K was loving our treasure hunt, he couldn't believe how fun it was.

Our third geo-cache was supposed to be somewhere around the fire station, but we never found it.  At 8:45 I had to call off our quest, Johan had made dinner at home, and I knew he would be waiting.

Johan made Hache, a yummy Dutch meat dish.

As I cleaned the kitchen and Johan did some work in the garage, K decided to help put Ms. A to bed.  Amazing boys!!!!!

With the girls in bed, Johan decided to take the boys to find "Night Ranger." The geo-cache that they had tried unsuccessfully to locate earlier with Ms. A.  We looked on-line and it turns out to find "Night Ranger" it has to be dark and you need a flash light to shoot off a reflective point in the distance...