Another great weekend in the cities...

This past Friday we drove up to my parent's house after John got off work.

Saturday, John and I (along with many others) helped our friends Nate and Leslie move into their beautiful new 5 bedroom and 4 bathroom Home in Otsego. It was a smooth move and we had fun visiting them!

While John and I were out this Saturday, my parents took Sadie along with them to visit (and meet for the first time) my cousins in Duluth. Sadie had a blast playing with several of her young cousins, including Reagan, who is also 3 - these two girls had fun playing in the hammock with the boys!!

Saturday afternoon John and I met up with Andy and Rachel! The four of us thoroughly enjoyed China Star together!! We had hoped to go out on the pontoon boat (at Rachel's Mom's house - she lives on a lake) but we could not get the boat past the end of the dock with the wind and mucky water... it was unusually windy, so we couldn't paddle the boat out of the bay... and the water in the bay (near the dock) is about 6 feet of quick-sand like muck with about a foot of water on top, so we couldn't put the motor down in the water without gumming up the propellers...

[sigh]

So, we decided to nominate Andy to go rescue the fishing boat that had drifted into the cat tails after the rope snapped (which was connecting it to the dock). First, Andy got suited up in painfully-grippy-rubber waders and tried wading to the boat, but the muck almost swallowed him whole, so, John helped him get back on the dock. Plan B: float out to the boat in a floaty chair, grab the boat and have John pull him back to the dock with a rope! This was a success!! We didn't accomplish all that we had set out to... but we made some great memories!! And Andy was very brave to venture into the mucky-critter-living waters!

Saturday evening we made campfire style pies over a bonfire at Andy and Rachel's. We enjoyed a full day of excitement with the Blocks!

Sunday, we visited with my parents in the morning and ate at Culver's! Then later we had a yummy steak dinner with John's family in the afternoon!

It was a fun, full weekend!