Vacation pt.2

Before I talk about the 2nd part of our vacation, Danica had asked about the Banana boats. I had never heard of banana boats before that day either, but it will definitely not be the last time I eat them! All you do is take a banana still in the peel and make a slit down the center lengthwise (making sure you don't pierce through to the other side). Then shove inside any type of these toppings: Chocolate (chips, bar, whatever you have on hand), peanut butter, and marshmallows (mini or cream). It will be pretty messy since you obviously can't get all of it inside the banana. Then, you wrap your banana up in foil and lay it on the hot coals next to your fire. After it's completely heated through and your chocolate is melted, it's time to eat! Just eat the insides of the banana with a spoon! It's sooooooooooooo amazingly good!

Alrighty then, on to the rest of the vacation:

After spending time with Shane's family, we then started the long drive to Michigan.



Along the way we stopped at a couple of different places. In South Bend, IN we stopped at a really cool chocolate factory to do a tour. I only say it was "cool" because the tour and the samples were free. However, the tour was really lame. Since there was no one working in the factory that day (it was saturday), there was nothing cool to see. Just a bunch of empty conveyor belts and boxes. But hey, the kids still thought it was cool. After that we drove another couple of hours and then stopped in Holland, MI. At first we were going to visit the Little Holland park thing, but it was going to be almost $60 for us to get it! It was kinda cool, but not $60 cool! So we decided instead to check out the outlet mall that was right next to it. The kids had to go to the bathroom, and the only bathrooms in the whole place were located inside a laser tag/game business. I'm glad we stopped in though. We bowled a little bit, played some air hockey, and did some miniature golf. While playing air hockey, Kelly exclaimed very loudly "This is the best vacation EVER!" Best $14 ever spent.

After playing around, we drove the rest of the way up to Hart, MI to meet up with our friends the Romney's. They have a distant relative who lives there and was willing to rent out a small trailer they owned for just $5 a night. Check out that beauty:


Now come on, how freakin' awesome is that??? LOL! OK, it wasn't freakin' awesome, but it was cheap and really really funny for memories sake! I really wish we had taken some pictures of all of us crammed inside. The trailer was really built for just 2 people and we had 4 adults and 3 kids in there. Oh yeah! We really only slept in the darn thing. It was just too small to do anything else. It was nice really nice, though, having our friends there. In the evening when we would put the kids to bed, we would stay up playing card games and just DYING laughing at the stupid voices that Justin and Shane would make up. Just so you guys know, if you ever want to watch the funniest game of scum or phase 8, just play with Justin and Shane!

The rest of the vacation was spent going to Lake Michigan, cooking out on the grill or over an open fire pit, doing the touristy thing, and just having fun with the kids. The whole trip was soooooooooooooooooo relaxing and it just made it better that the kids just kept saying over and over again, "This is the best vacation EVER!"