Final Day

Today was our final day in Minnesota. In some ways, we are eager to get back home to our own house and sleep in our own beds again. In other ways, it will be pretty sad to leave. We've had some wonderful days full of family fun, some time away from the kids, and plenty of grandparent time! We've played, relaxed, and taken some trips down memory lane (there have been some definite changes to my home area over the last 10 years of being away!). We are all so crazy grateful for this time here and are already looking forward to next year :)

We spent the morning out at Oxbow Park in my true hometown of Byron. John was slightly disappointed that he didn't see any buffalo on our trip out to the Black Hills, but this morning made up for it! The zoo at the park has a whole herd and John was thrilled.

The boys had gone swimming at the town pool while we were on vacation, but they had such a good time that we wanted a chance to see what all the fuss was about. Wow! We were blown away by how great the pool was there. There was a fantastic kids area with a lion slide and towering sprinklers, an actual swimming area, a diving board area, and two gigantic water slides. We had a blast there and would love to move here just to go to the pool!