Monday, September 01, 2014
Kohler-Andrae Camping Weekend
Camping with many of our friends at Kohler-Andrae state park in Sheboygan. All of the kids were thoroughly dirty everyday. Everyone had fun and despite the fog, it was a nice weekend.
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
20 Year High School Reunion...Or So I Thought!
I (Mark) graduated from high school in 1994. This year was the 20th anniversary of my graduation and to celebrate that, some of my old classmates had planned a weekend of hanging out at various locations around Sheboygan. I opted to go only to the actual reunion that was to take place on a Saturday at the Sheboygan Yacht Club. I paid my meal fee for Becky and myself and received my confirmation email that the event was all set.
I had wrangled a friend of mine (Rich) and his wife into going too. The 4 of us arrived at the venue fashionably late and asked where the reunion was. The host looked at us like we had something on our face and informed us that their was no reunion scheduled that night. We asked to speak to the manager and he informed us that the event was canceled the previous month. He gave us the number for the person organizer and we gave her a call to see about getting our meal refunded. Thankfully it wasn't some elaborate prank played on us. They had canceled the event at that venue because they didn't have enough people and instead moved it to another location...a bar.
After getting the persons voice mail, we decided to find another place to eat since we had both gotten babysitters for the night and didn't want to go home at 7pm with our tails between our legs. We headed out to find food and one of us got a call back with an explanation that personal phone calls had gone out to all who had paid for the event...they evidently forgot to give us a call, and since neither my friend or I are on Facebook(see...it's not just Becky and I), we did not get the message that way either.
After finding a place to eat I received a call from one of the organizers who was now at the Sheboygan Yacht Club looking for us. Apparently word had gotten out that their were people going to the Yacht Club. So this person was trying to find us to give us our money back for not attending the event and for all the mix-up that happened. We were currently in Elkhart Lake...quit a ways from the Sheboygan lakefront. This person with our money was adamant about getting the cash to us that night before they went home. So I gave her the address of the restaurant and we waited for her arrival in Elkhart Lake. A while later she called me...lost somewhere in Elkhart Lake, my friend guided her to the restaurant where we met her outside for our refund. We caught up for a few minutes and she apologized over and over for the mix-up. With our refund in hand, our dinner was paid for.
It turned out to be a great (and hilarious) night out with my high school friend, which was mostly the point of the evening anyways. Catching up with friends.
I had wrangled a friend of mine (Rich) and his wife into going too. The 4 of us arrived at the venue fashionably late and asked where the reunion was. The host looked at us like we had something on our face and informed us that their was no reunion scheduled that night. We asked to speak to the manager and he informed us that the event was canceled the previous month. He gave us the number for the person organizer and we gave her a call to see about getting our meal refunded. Thankfully it wasn't some elaborate prank played on us. They had canceled the event at that venue because they didn't have enough people and instead moved it to another location...a bar.
After getting the persons voice mail, we decided to find another place to eat since we had both gotten babysitters for the night and didn't want to go home at 7pm with our tails between our legs. We headed out to find food and one of us got a call back with an explanation that personal phone calls had gone out to all who had paid for the event...they evidently forgot to give us a call, and since neither my friend or I are on Facebook(see...it's not just Becky and I), we did not get the message that way either.
After finding a place to eat I received a call from one of the organizers who was now at the Sheboygan Yacht Club looking for us. Apparently word had gotten out that their were people going to the Yacht Club. So this person was trying to find us to give us our money back for not attending the event and for all the mix-up that happened. We were currently in Elkhart Lake...quit a ways from the Sheboygan lakefront. This person with our money was adamant about getting the cash to us that night before they went home. So I gave her the address of the restaurant and we waited for her arrival in Elkhart Lake. A while later she called me...lost somewhere in Elkhart Lake, my friend guided her to the restaurant where we met her outside for our refund. We caught up for a few minutes and she apologized over and over for the mix-up. With our refund in hand, our dinner was paid for.
It turned out to be a great (and hilarious) night out with my high school friend, which was mostly the point of the evening anyways. Catching up with friends.
Sam's First Baseball Season
Sam tried baseball this summer for the first time and learned a lot about playing. He has gotten really good at fielding the ball and he's a really fast base runner.
Jellystone Park Campground Weekend
We've been tent camping for years now, but we've never slept in anything but a tent in all that time. We thought we'd take it up a notch and stay at campground that had a few more amenities...and cabins! We stayed at the Jellystone Park campground in Warrens, WI.
We stayed in a cabin for the first time and it was pretty cool. We had some rain and hail one day, so it was nice to have the comforts of home during the storm and not huddle in a tent for 3 hours.
They had a small waterpark with a lazy river, wave pool and a kiddie area that included a handful of water slides and a picnic basket that dumped water on anyone standing under it. They also had a couple other pool areas, a beach (on a small lake) with a playground, a smaller lake with paddle boats and mini golf was also included.
The park was HUGE and had lots of different types of campsites to reserve. The boys had so much fun that each night they were so tired out that they fell asleep within minutes.
They even got to stay up one night to watch Yogi Bear cartoons on a big outdoor theater screen!
We stayed in a cabin for the first time and it was pretty cool. We had some rain and hail one day, so it was nice to have the comforts of home during the storm and not huddle in a tent for 3 hours.
They had a small waterpark with a lazy river, wave pool and a kiddie area that included a handful of water slides and a picnic basket that dumped water on anyone standing under it. They also had a couple other pool areas, a beach (on a small lake) with a playground, a smaller lake with paddle boats and mini golf was also included.
The park was HUGE and had lots of different types of campsites to reserve. The boys had so much fun that each night they were so tired out that they fell asleep within minutes.
They even got to stay up one night to watch Yogi Bear cartoons on a big outdoor theater screen!
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| The loft in the cabin |
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| Hail on the first night |
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| Yogi Bear at the Market |
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| Paddle boating on the tiny lake |
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| Sam FINALLY got to try his snorkeling gear |
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| Max swimming in the 8 inch deep pool |
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| Mini-golf! |
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| Mini-golf! |
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| The rock wall outside our cabin |
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| Our cabin |
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| The view off the deck |
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Cub Scout Camp
Sam and I (Mark) went to Cub Scout Camp in July for a few days and had a ton of fun. The schedule at the camp was very structured and packed with activities from the moment we got up, until we went to bed each night. Sam worked hard the second day to earn awards, called "belt loops", for completing requirements in activities like, swimming, fishing, soccer, wildlife conservation. He also had a chance to try out BB guns and archery. On the second day we had a huge water fight on paddle boats on the lake. Two adults and two kids per poat and buckets for each person to drench the other boats. Camp was tiring, but we had a great time and got to know our Cub Scout friends better.
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