Days Three and Four...

WARNING! SPOILER, SPOLIER, SPOILER. Melissa do not read or look at this blog until you have called or received a call from MLE. Thank you and have a wonderful day.

Day Three: Monday. Events: The Orginial Wisconsin Ducks, and Paint it Pottery. The Ducks were a blast. I hadn't been particularly excited about this event but Rod and Michelle were so that was why it was in the schedule. After going on it I would go on it again and again. It was so much fun. These are incredible vehicles. They can go up to 50 MPH on land and 15 MPH on water. The tour itself was fantasic. We saw a lot of Wisconsin scenery both on the river and in the woods. These things were built to be used in World War II but very few of them actually were used in the war. There are two or three companies in Wisconsin Dells who offer these Duck Tours. We went with the Original Wicsonsin Duck company. Our tour guide Seth was very knowledgeable about the area and the duck (well duh they wouldn't let him drive one if he wasn't.) Sorry I get carried away talking to myself sometimes. Moving on...maybe five minutes into it we saw a deer under a large rock overhang the picture is very blurry sorry. Just think of it as one of the Eye Spy pictures...Can you find the deer in this picture? We went very fast down some little hills, it was fun. We then made it to the water. Once on the water I was amazed at the beauty of the river. Our guide pointed out a couple of rock formations and the second or maybe third one was called Hawks beak and next to it on a tree hanging down was a Bald Eagle. Here again you may have to play Eye Spy. Go ahead and click on it to enlarge it and then it is much easier to see. All of these pictures were taken with my mothers digital camera the Canon Powershot A510 so while I was thankful to have it with me I realize that it has many limitations. In the afternoon Emily and I went to Paint it Pottery. Each of us agonized for awhile over what piece to glaze but finally decided. As you already know I did a Gnome, but I also did a 5X5 inch tile. I just tried wierd stuff out on the tile, the Gnome I spent more time on. I didn't spend NEAR the time Emmy did on her piece. She chose a Dragon bank for her 'psuedo' niece in Colorado. The total time spent on this thing was aprox. 7 hours, three on Monday and four on Tuesday. It was worth it though the finished dragon is as you see adorable. Those were the only events for Monday other than swimming, and as you all my have been able to figure out by now we did that a lot. It was great I love the water. I wish I was in a pool right now...sigh...

Day Four: Tuesday Events: Dells Mining Company and Paint it Pottery...again.
Emily and I took Kirsten to pan for 'jewels' while Rod and Michelle took Kira to explore downtown Dells on foot. Now this place was cool, we were the only ones there (the off season is great) They give you these buckets of sand with rough gemstones (low end row gemstones but they were cool none the less.) Then you pan out the sand and put your newly discovered treasures into an empty pan box to bag later and take home. Oh before you go home they have someone tell you the names of all your stones. It was fun and Kirsten had a great time. Here is Mortimor with our findings in front of the building. From there we took Kirsten to Paint it Pottery for a two fold reason. One so Kirsten could paint something, and two so Emily could finish her bank. So while I helped Kirsten with her (can you guess what she painted?) yup you're right if you guessed a HORSE. It was a flat horse that after it was fired had magnets attached to the back so she can put it on the fridge at home. Anyway while I helped her Em continued the cute dragon. Don't you just love Kirsten's expression?! That is her normal picture taking face when she doesn't want to take the picture in the first place. It ended up that Kirsten and I left Em there to meet Rod Michelle and Kira for old-time pictures. (just the four of them I was there to help with child placation.) That was interesting to get two little girls to cooperate for this. (however Kirsten's somber face came in handy for this situation.) But they turned out very well. (sorry no pic) Then we went back to the condo and ate lunch. The girls went down for naps and I went to go get Emily. So FINALLY done we left our new friend Deb (the lady working at Paint it Pottery) and came back to wait for the girls to wake up and we all went....swimming! Here is Kirsten using the stairs to lean on and putting her legs out behind her to kick. This is a new skill she was learning with Emily and I. She did really well, we were very proud of her for trying so much new stuff with us in the pool. Well I think that is all for today. Keep up the good work people, if we don't give up we might just make it through this day.