Vacation Recap...TONS of photos!

The school district that we are in this year is a bit odd in that we didn't get a full week for Spring Break... instead we got a  total of 3 days out of school over the Easter weekend. Since our summer is going to be crazy with Ben deploying at the end of it, we decided to take as much advantage as we could of our very short break. We ended up renting a 3 bedroom log cabin on Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri.

{My photos are going to go backwards because that is the way that I uploaded them and I am too lazy to move them all so that they go the correct direction.}

Our last full day there was Easter. This was the best photo of Kat from her search for Easter eggs with the added bonus that Jacob was actually in the background...

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Our final night there we were finally able to start a fire (it rained almost the entire time we were there) and cook out s'mores. I missed the photo where he had the marshmellow drizzling down his chin... ;o)

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This is one of the plank swinging bridges that I was talking about in my post from earlier today. These were built in the 30's and are still used by cars today. Just walking on it made it swing and there were huge gaps where the wood was rotting so I cannot honestly imagine actually driving across this one... and as you can see, it was pretty darn long...

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There was lots of football throwing throughout the week. It's rare that we see Jacob anywhere without a football attached to him!

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Ball caught in mid-air!

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I had mentioned this house in the post from earlier in the week with the photo of Ben & I. Kelly, I had it wrong...this house is actually not in Lake of the Ozarks state park. It's at a state park called HaHaTonka (about 15-30 minutes away from the lake.) This "castle" was built at the turn of the century and then burned down in the 40's (there is much more to that whole story, but I won't get into it all here.) It reminded me so much of the castle ruins that we would wander through when we lived in England.

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One of the mammoth window frames on the house...

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I just like this photo... :o)

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This photo has the look of them wandering through Greece or Rome with the color of it all, but no they are just in Missouri...

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I love this profile shot that I got of Ben. This is a lookout just below the house.

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The kids on the swing from the porch of our house....

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Everything was just starting to bloom the weekend that we were there...

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Jacob inside the Willmore Lodge...

And finally, a photo of all of us outside the Willmore Lodge...

Whew! If you made it to this point of this post, I salute you...LOL! That is a lot of photos, but I could have posted so many more, but I don't want to bore you!

I do have one more post to make today and that will contain the photos of my travel stamp kit. I didn't want to turn this post into a huge novel by adding that too....