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More Lake Fun
After breakfast a group of us went to Silver Dollar City to tour Marvel cave. The other group, the older grandkids, all went tubing on Table Rock Lake. They didn't send any pictures of their fun but we have pictures from the cave. Rhoda took the video below of the bats flying around the entrance of the cave.
The cave is not for anyone with hip, knee, ankle or back problems. There are over 500 steps to climb down and more than 100 to climb back up. It was worth the effort.
Stephanie sent the picture below.
After the cave I took River and Zeke back to the house to play so the rest could enjoy the bigger rides. The boaters came back for a late lunch, ate then headed to the pool. Tonight we had our steak dinner and I didn't bring enough steak. They ate everything we cooked and would have eaten more. They all had at least 8 ounces. For dessert we celebrated Elisabet's birthday with cookie cake and ice cream bars. Then the older kids went to Silver Dollar City to enjoy rides and fireworks. The younger kids got their turn to go out on the boat.
The weather was perfect and the water warm. Rhonda and Spark took some of their grandchildren to Pleasant Home (the house we grew up in). Karik and Molly told their children about John the Ghost who supposedly lived in the dirt room. (the root cellar)
After telling the story Kari and Molly sang the Ghost of John song to them.
One of the favorite games on this vacation is a game with letters in a cage that is shaken up and then the kids have to find words. I'm not sure if it was already here or one of the mom's brought it but I am very impressed with how many words even the littles come up with. They have been playing it every day.
Zeke and River have been spending hours building.
Below is one of the videos from tonight's tubing. Zion jumps from one tube to the next then Elisabet stands. These kids are getting BRAVE!
This really has been a wonderful family vacation and even the adults were saying this is the best one yet. WE have one more day then Saturday will be heading home.
Diane, Joan and Ruth have been in New Jersey at Lake Gerard visiting with Aunt Jinnie, Mark and Becky. The first morning there Joan caught lots of fish and then it started raining but yesterday was beautiful for them and they all ended up on the lake.
The pictures brings back so many wonderful memories. We would spend our vacation there every other year (usually the year mom had a new baby) with our grandparents and cousins and all off us LOVED it. Grandpa and Grandma had a cottage that they modified to sleep all of us, there were beds everywhere, built into the walls and even in the downstairs workrooms. It was pretty primitive, having an outhouse and a pump to bring water in from the lake for washing dishes, an old wood burning stove in the main room for heat. They would take trips to the well and had a large metal container with a dipper for drinking water.
