big boat and fountains

big boat

A few weeks before we left, Chad and Jamie went down to the see the "big boat" (Turner Joy) and to have lunch at Fritz (of course). Here are some pics from their adventure.





walking home from downtown...

Submarine water park

On that ONE hot sunny day we had awhile back, I took the kids down to the fountains with my sister and her family. I was skeptical about how hot it really was so I didn't put swimsuits on the kids but they needed it! Abby and Jamie walked around in their underwear (or diaper).

I hijacked these next fews pictures off my sister's blog, so they were taken by Jason. Here's the story: a ball that the kids were playing with had drifted over next to one of the "spouts" and Jamie and Sydney were too scared to go get it (for fear that the fountain would "blow"). Abby saw it and pointed to it so we told her to go get it not thinking that it would go off anytime soon (because they usually gave you some sort of warning). Well, she walked over there and the thing suddenly went off and a huge wall of water came crashing down about a foot from where she was standing! She was so frightened she ran to the nearest person, who was my sister. And EVERYTIME that the fountain went off after that, no matter how far away she was, she was scared to death, and we pretty much had to just leave.