What We Do For Fun

I grew up as a Navy Brat and love to travel and see new places and experience new cultures. Kurt grew up in central Minnesota and didn't travel much until he met me. Most summers we go to Michigan near Traverse City to my grandparent's cottage. It is the most amazing place I've ever been, and I've been a few places.

This is Big Glen and Little Glen lakes. The other large body of water is Lake Michigan, the very sandy spot you see in the upper left is called Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes National Lakeshore. It's like a tropical paradise in the middle of our country (except in the winter when there's LOTS of snow). Autumn has fallen in love with this place and constantly asks when are we going back to "our brown house". I'll post a picture of the cottage when I get the computer hooked back up to the other hard drive.

This coming summer we are going to try to go to Washington DC for the Girl Scout 100th Birthday celebration so I'm not sure if we'll get to the lake, but if we can we definitely will! 

As for what we do around here, we go to the zoo as often as we can, Autumn loves animals and the zoo is a fun place to spend the day as a family. We also go to the aquarium at the Mall of America where we enjoy watching the sharks. We've been to plays with Autumn and go to many many parks. We love going to the Children's Museum and the Science Museum as well. We are hoping to get back to the Minneapolis art museum this summer as well, Kurt and I haven't been in a while. We like to hang out at home and play in the backyard as well as going for walks in the "forest" as Autumn calls the county parks we visit. 

We go to a wonderful church where we have a fantastic group of friends that we like to do things with. We are very involved in our church and spend a couple of days a week there volunteering, having supper, going to or teaching classes...