Wading In The Reflecting Pool On The UM Campus

Derek's New Version Of A Tower.

Hanging Out With Daddy Grilling Burgers

Sport & Sarah Took Us To A New Park This Morning

Playing Ball With Uncle Steve & Nico

At the Water Park In Eau Claire

Spencer Is Ready For The Flood

Spencer Sleeping, He's Quite Mobile

At The Milwaukee Zoo

Again

Monkey Pile On Ellie

Ellie Let Us Driver Her Jeep

Now It's My Turn

Connor Took Me For A Ride In His Jeep

Making Bubbles In Thw Backyard

Now It's My Turn On The Slide

Look At Grandpa Dale's New Pool

Monkey Pile On Connor!

Derek Napping On The Floor At Auntie Amie's

Look How Deep We Waded Into The Pool.

Hanging on the Big Swing With Cousin Ellie

Look at How Dood I Can Cliimb The Latter

Playing on the swingset at Auntie Amie's

Storm damage

Storm

Ggod Day To Be In the Pool

We're going to share a pillow for our nap today.

The Neighbor's Cool Swimming Pool

Lunch at McDonald's Today

We Love Cherries

2 Monkeys in a Barrel

It's A Great Day To Try A Tri!

Eating Lunch Lunch At The Big Table

Playing in our New Pool

Ellie & Shadow. Reunited

Connor & Shadow Reunited

Library

Mom took us to the library this afternnon. We had to return our books from our first trip here & we got to pick out new ones.

In Fish Lake

Worn out

Lake Itasca and the Mississippi River Head Waters

After a couple days on the North Shore of Minnesota, we drove west to the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Northern Minnesota is a very untouched and remote place. Lots of big forests and lakes.


Here's Spencer showing us his forestry knowledge and highlighting that a big tree used to be here. Now, it's the leftovers of a ground-up stump.

Here are the three boys and Jen getting into the headwaters of the Mississippi. Jen and Astro waded across the river. The boys just threw rocks. Here are some shots midway through the river in Memphis.

Here's the river - not very wide here.

Here's Daddy telling the boys about the river. They crossed it a couple times along the way in Minnesota and it wasn't very wide, especially in a little town south of Grand Rapids. It was wider in St. Cloud. They've walked along it and across it in Minneapolis, downtown and at Minnehaha Park. They also walked along it in St. Paul. On Memorial Day, the boys drove along the river from Lacrosse to Red Wing past Lake Pepin. The boys then heard about Daddy being born along the river in St. Louis. How come every city along the river is named after a Saint? The boys also heard a story about Daddy being raised in Freeport, not too far from the river and Dubuque.

Spencer is showing the large scale map of the river. He's pointing to the Gulf of Mexico and showing us where the oil is leaking.

Here's another part of the map, near where Iowa meets Wisconsin and Illinois.

Here's the boys at the sign at the head of the river.