Day 5...Home Sweet Home

The boys got a few last turns in with the go carts then we packed and headed home. We were sad and partly not ready but man it's good to be back! I'll leave you with a few pics from around the campfire!

Day 4...Underground Again

We headed for Penn's Cave today. We enjoyed it a lot. One of the funniest things is that one of the men in our tour group looked so much like my BIL (but older) that I swear I thought it was his brother! The pics from today are my favorite from inside the cave, a group shot of the boys outside the Penn Cave House, and a shot of Ty and Cory just because I love the pic so much! If you compare Cory in it to him in the header of my blog (from last October) you can really see how much he has matured in less than a year!

Day 3...More of the Same

We spent day 3 just enjoying the campground again. The pics in this post this will be the boys enjoying the bumper boats and go carts. The campground had different activities each day too. Today the boys enjoyed the foam party by the pool. There was a huge blow up pool filled with soap bubbles to play in and you got hosed off as you came out.

I enjoyed every minute but my best memories will be from around the campfire. It's amazing what the boys will talk about in front of the relaxing fire with nothing else to focus on but the flames and each other. I feel like we got to know each other all over again and they sure can surprize me! They laughed, talked, told jokes and stories. Even L at 4 years old told amazingly creative (although frightingly graphic for his age) scary stories in such a wonderful story teller voice. It was so beyond what I expected of him that the shock of it made us all laugh til our sides hurt. It was just so surprizing to hear that breathless, edge of your seat tone from him as he told the tales. I'lll NEVER forget those nights around the campfire, just me and my boys.

Day 2...Aaaaahhhh

Day 2 (Tuesday) we spent enjoying the campground. There was the pool and splash park, bumper boats, mini golfing, game room and pedal carts. There's a hot tub there too but it wasn't very hot lol. Still relaxing though lol.

The pics this time are from the pool/splashpark.

Day 1...Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho

We're back from our vacation. We had a great time and got a much needed time away together.

We couldn't check in til later in the afternoon on Monday so we left home early and went to one of the points of interest on our list. We took a mine tram tour of a PA coal mine, which was very interesting and educational. I'm not sure the boys cared about the educational part but they thought it was "wicked cool." The tram took us to the middle level of the mine I guess you'd call it. This meant we could look up gangways (emergency passages for the miners to climb if needed) and down into the ones to the lower level. The pictures just don't do justice to the scope of the length and incline of the gangways. The one we saw from above looking down into the deeper level of the mine was mind boggling. To point out how dangerous it could be the tour guide turned off all the lights and said, "Now find the Wishing Well (what it was called.)" In the picture you can see a grate over it but back when it was in use of course they couldn't block it off. Another thing that hit home for us all was the story of what they used for brakes on the mine carts (12 yr old boys used to stand along side the tracks and throw wood into the spokes to slow them down). We all really enjoyed the whole experience.

After the mine we checked into the campground. We had time to enjoy the pool and splash park and the boys rode bikes and pedal go-carts for a while.