What a Weekend!

Goodness...these last 3 days have been so jam packed I just don't know where to begin. I will give you the highlights as best as I can...hope this doesn't get too long, and if it does, oh well!

Friday we left around 6am to drive up north. We met Matt's parents at their camper, had breakfast and then went out to this spot on Lake Michigan where the Platte (sp?) River empties into the Lake. It was a VERY cool spot. We would have stayed longer, but it was really windy and the kids got really cold really fast. The funniest part of this part of our adventure was when I crossed the river. You could cross at this shallow part and get up on a sandbar as to be closer to the lake. Well, what I didn't know is there was QUICK SAND! Hello! Yep, you guessed it. I sank right in up to my waist. That was hilarious. Never had that happen before. So we leave the lake and the Maibergers and head to Traverse City to go to Great Wolf Lodge. We couldn't check in until 4, so we stopped by our favorite pillow store there in town and all got new pillows. It was so grand. I of course got a body pillow and it is HEAVENLY. So then off to GWL...we had a little fiasco checking in. Apparently the kind of room I reserved only came in handicap accessible form, so long story short, we ended up with a handicap room. Oh well. At least it was cheap! The kids had a blast at the water park. Matt's parents joined us the next morning and Gabe and Zoe both loved that. All in all, Gabe loved his birthday celebration. We got home last night and were exhausted, but we had a great time. Fast forward to this afternoon. We went to the late service cause there was NO way we were getting up early! :-) After, we had lunch with one of our graduates who is going back to college tomorrow, and then Zoe and I headed to Target to do some shopping. I had been there about 10 minutes when I needed to look into my purse to see if I had a pull-up coupon. No wallet. Oh no. For those of you who know my brownsville wallet story, anytime I lose my wallet I get panicked. Anyway, I had my checkbook with ONE CHECK, but I wasn't sure if they would take it without ID. I went up to the checkout and talked to the manager who ran my check and said if I kept it under $100 I would be fine and wouldn't need id. Whew. So I did the rest of my shopping and checked out, explaining to the cashier what the manager had told me. Well, unfortunately, she had made a mistake and I DID need id. AAAAA. Who memorizes their driver's license number?? Well, not me, BUT, I asked if I could call my husband and use his. They said yes, so as he read it to me over the cell phone I dictated it to the cashier. Haha! What would we do without cellphones, eh? So, all is well. Now I am on my way out to the car to see if my wallet was for some unknown reason laying on the floor of the van. And it was. My crazy day had almost come to a calming end when BAM! My passenger side door caught the wind and SLAMMED into the driver side door of the car next to me. Ugh. It TOTALLY dented their door, so I had to leave my name and #. We'll see if they call. So thankfully I am home now and off to clean before the youth sponsors get here. Gabe starts school a week from tomorrow. WOW.