June 9, 2015 – Dayspring Disciples

We’d been blessed Every Day of our trip with outstanding weather. Today was no exception as the forecast was fourth consecutive day in the 90s. Praise the LORD! I was not happy to see the forecasted weather for our Yellowstone day is 58○F and our Badlands day is not much warmer. OUCH.

The girls took the little ones and the dog for a walk. See – Tab doesn’t have a dog – so she thinks walking a dog is fun. Ella doesn’t have little sisters, so she thinks walking little sisters is fun. It works.

The girls made some parfaits for breakfast.

Ella and I ran to Target to buy t-shirts and underwear for some of the kids. After the Really Long Day we drove 916 miles we ~~cried uncle~~ acknowledged that our trip home would likely be less miserable if we only had one killer-drive day, and not the three I had originally planned. Try as I may to repack our things, there just weren’t enough clothes for some of the kids. Target to the rescue!

Meanwhile, the rest of the crew went to mini-golf. Ella and I got there when they were on about the 9th hole. She joined in and I grabbed more photos.

I’m not sure who won. I’m quite certain it didn’t matter. ♥

We went home for lunch and I spent some time confirming hotel information and some activities along the way. (Tune in later in the week for exciting summaries!) We also gave Katriel time for a nap.

Our final fun activity together was visiting Sky High trampoline center. We essentially had the place to ourselves,because there aren’t a lot of people who say, “Let’s go jump around feverishly in a ginormous warehouse without air conditioning.” The kids had a blast and the dads may or may not have injured their backs with their acrobatics. I foolishly wore a skirt and missed out on the action.

We believe Marie broke her toe.

We piled back into a terrifically stifling hot van (oh it felt so GOOD not to be freezing) and headed home for enchiladas and some serious packing up.