We had a good time in Vermont over the last week. We always enjoy going to Smuggler’s Notch because it has been one of the few places we felt comfortable giving the kids the freedom we need and they deserve. They’re getting so grown up now that Ben and Gabriel were able to go off most of the days without us.
Chloe and Ben and Gabriel all learned the basics of skateboarding. They have a nice skate-park there and each of them got 90 minutes of lessons before getting turned loose. Ben picked it up in about thirty seconds and was going down some of their ramps the following day. He did really great. I’ve never seen him take to something so quickly!
After a few initial defeats Gabe wanted to walk away but I managed to convince him to keep trying. He’s not used to physical things being difficult for him. He got better and within 60 minutes he was saying
“Normally, I look good, but now I am good!”
Funny kid, eh? When we left Chloe was still struggling with it. I don’t know if it will ever be her “thing” but she had a lot of fun with it.
Ben and Chloe went off on overnight trips to a second ski lodge with their camp groups and both returned saying they had a good time.
Ben and Gabriel did a “video camp” where they filmed and produced short video clips over the course of four days. They had a great time doing that! I’ll see if I can upload the videos to show you what they did.
Gabriel tried “Mountain Boarding” - its a kind of a skateboard with big knobby tires made for going down grassy hills instead of concrete ones. He had fun but fell on his head a lot. Don’t worry, I got LOTS of good video of it!
Liz and I rented a pair of Segways and had a great time. They’re very cool machines and the ones we were on were called X2 versions because they were heavy duty, geared differently and had large knobby tires to carry one over difficult obstacles. We went through the woods and up a mountain and had a great time.
I did a lot of reading, which was nice. I don’t normally get much time to read and have found that I really like it a lot.
I took the little woman antique-ing. While it isn’t exactly my cup of tea, she seemed to like it a lot.
On the fourth of July there were fireworks in the mountains which were pretty good. There was a really good small-town parade in nearby Jeffersonville. There was also a small bazaar-thing where the local scouts and elks and fire dept raised money.
The dogs came back just fine and I was very happy to see them again.
So, all in all, it was a great vacation because everyone came back healthy and happy. Its mostly nice to be back. I’m facing some yard work & gardening. I goofed when I planted my corn a while back and I had the kids plant the corn too shallow. A lot of the corn came up and then fell over and died. stupid.
Chloe and I have managed to save seven plants. ugh. I don’t think we’ll get ANY corn worth saving from it. seven. So I think we will keep trying to convince these seven plants to grow.
oh and there are some photos of the first day or two of the trip at Flickr.com.
This had something to do with water balloons - I think someone was launching water balloons at the kids and they were all going crazy trying to catch them.
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