No work, all PLAY...

...makes for one GREAT week! Cary and I both took last week off from work, and had a wonderful time together, and with the kids.

The week started off with much excitement, as Monday brought a visit from Grandpa David and Grandma Connie...

Grandpa David and Grandma Connie babysat the kids on Tuesday night so Cary and I could go on a Larson Allen charted Paddlewheel Boat on the Mississisppi River with his coworkers...

Then to a bar afterwards (we stayed in a hotel in Brainerd)...

Thursday morning, it was off to Duluth...first stop, the zoo!

The Lake Superior Zoo has a train that goes around the premises, so of course, we took a ride...

With temperatures soaring to 100 degrees, it was all everybody could do to stay cool...

After sweating buckets at the zoo, we wanted to do something, anything, on the water. We ended up going on the Vista King, an hour and a half boat ride that goes out into the bay, and along the shores of Duluth. It's a narrated tour and was very interesting.

To be continued...