8 years and kalahari hookie day

so justin and i celebrated our 8 year annaversary by going out to this little resturant in german village called "thurmans" where they are famous for the "thurmanator" which is this gigantic burger with everything from mushrooms to bacon and onions and cheese and 2 pounds of burger. we split one and were both stuffed to the gills by the time we had finished our halves. eviently they started making them when some guys from the arnold fest came to that place and ordered two different burgers and ate them both. people are nuts. anyway, we ate, walked around victorian village, went and got coffee, and met up with jennifer and a couple in our homegroup to see a show where i ran into an old friend of my brothers who took one look at my blond self and said "you're aaron may's sister!?" gah!

than on tuesday we let the kids skip school and took them to kalahari, which is "the worlds largest water park" for the day. justin and lindsay took emmet.. (and evidently he cried all night at their house...poor baby!) justin got distracted on the drive up so it took us an extra hour, but we took the secnic route :) the kids had an absolute blast. we didn't get too many pictures caz it's a water park, and camera's don't do too well with water... we played from 1-9 and the kids wanted to get up and go back the next morning! (which we couldn't do caz justin had to work at noon...) michael's favorite part was the hot tub that went outside and you could look at the moon. this would have been relaxing if there haden't been for all the kids swimming around (and worse...pubescent boys/girls...truly a horrible breed to be around when the girls are all wearing bikinis...but don't get me started...) megan loved the roller coaster like water ride. we got stuck on it the first time. they had to get on their walkie talkies and have someone come and get us off the part we had gotten stuck on. it was pretty cool. that was our first try. megan wanted to get right back on after that and we rode it several times after. (justin had been behind us in line and thought we had flown out of the shoot when the ride stopped and was freaking out evidently...at least that's what he said...which means he was probably worse than that :) we all jumped on the hotel beds and ate crumby things and i didn't have to clean any of it up. we ate at ryan's steakhouse, which always reminds me of grandma ruth and school shopping. we slept. and the kids didn't want to leave... good times had by all.

and now i have 160 bags of mulch to lay (plus 40 at the rental..)hopefully it won't rain today... :)