On Friday night we drove up to St John's for Kidstock! St John's always hosts a "Pinestock" festival for the college kids with bands that play outdoors. They had The Okee Dokee Brothers lined up for Kidstock to play outside, but the event was moved inside due to the chance of thunderstorms. It was still great, even though it was moved inside! The kids played in the canoe, with the hula hoops and in the tent. I don't think they sat and listened to the music for one minute...but I don't blame them...our car ride that would usually take 1 hour 15 minutes took over 2 hours, so they didn't want to sit still for anything!
A little over half way through the concert we were all escorted into the Men's Locker room, as there was a chance of severe thunderstorms. We were all split up (Grandma and Grandpa joined us too). Nora and I found Gma and Gpa first and Nora loved walking all around the locker room.....back and forth and back and forth to Gma...but it kept us busy and it was better than fighting a restless toddler! After awhile (it's hard to tell how long--maybe 20-30 minutes) we were "released" and we headed to Gma and Gpa's for the night.
It was a really fun night and hopefully it's something they'll do in the future and it'll be nice enough to be outside!
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| Practicing canoeing...with the tongue out of course! |
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| Playing with the Hula Hoop! |
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| Let's ride in the canoe together! |
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| Watching the rain from the porch at Grandma and Grandpa's! |
We stayed at Grandma and Grandpa's and the kids had a blast! It was wet and the mosquitoes were out in FULL force on Saturday morning, but that didn't stop us from going out and about!
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| Reading with Gma! They love when she reads to them! |
Rich put in some concrete steps to replace some old railroad tie steps he had in. There was a man named Glen there on Saturday morning to help Rich remove the footings that had been placed for the concrete to be poured on Friday. Both kids really enjoyed watching Glen work!
The kids had their first visit to The Cold Spring Bakery and they weren't disappointed! None of us were for that fact! :)
Bishop even ran into one of his good buddies, Danny, while we were there. Danny was staying at his Grandma's and they had fun seeing each other at the bakery!
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| Bishop, Grandma and Nora |
It was fun to be there when we could go out and explore a bit. We went for a walk and ran into Rich and Eileen's neighbors (Dave and Mike). We stopped by Dave's to try to see the ducks--the ducks weren't really cooperating, but we saw them from a far. Bishop also spotted a snake, which he thought was pretty cool....and he found a ducks egg on the driveway, so Dave let him keep it! Dave sells his ducks to The Butcher and the Boar, so this was a nice find by Bishop! Dave grows all sorts of trees and raises all different kinds of produce. He has peach trees, grape vines (he makes his own homemade wine) among all kinds of neat things! It's so fun to go there, for all of us!
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| Looking for the ducks at Dave's! |
After Dave's we stopped at Mike and Kay's (Rich and Eileen's other neighbors) to visit with them! It was so fun to see them and to catch up a bit!
After that we had lunch and played at Grandpa and Grandma's for a little longer before heading for home!
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| Playing the mini piano |
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| Yee Haw!! Riding the horse together is FUN! |
It was a fun time in Cold Spring and thankfully they escaped the storms and any damage. We drove home on Saturday afternoon and were thankful we escaped any damage and we had power! There are a lot of people who weren't as fortunate! We have seen MANY trees down in the area--one tree went down INTO Lake Harriet. We saw another tree completely fallen on a car on Dean Parkway. Lake Calhoun was hit HARD. It's so sad, and it's a lot of work for a lot of people! I hope the worst is behind us!
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