River tubing--July 2011

Well, the kids decided to try tubing down the river.  We wake up on Tuesday morning to head for the big pink buses and the weather looks like it might rain!!  Darn it!!  We contemplate for a while and decide that we will head in the direction to see what the weather brings as we get closer to Detroit Lakes.

A quick stop for me to do do a job at  the store in Lake George.......it didn't take long and the kids got some snacks. Tina, Jess and Ty decided to walk across the street to look at a gift shop.  Tony and I came out to find them gone!!  Well...............i drove to park so that we could see them coming.  they were surprised to see the van removed from it's parking spot but Ty noticed us right away and headed to the van.  the ladies were walking rather slow so i decided to drive off!!!  FUNNY!!!  We were all laughing so hard...it was fun.  I drove down the road the girls just walked across the street to another gift shop.  I went back to get them and we all had a good laugh!!

Well,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,off to tubing.  WE keep driving and the weather id just beautiful!  Great!!  now we get to go tubing.  Get there where the big pink busxses are and noone else is there.  We asked where everyone else was and they said that in a coupl e hours it would be full.  It's only 11:00 so we head out.  Get on the bus and they drop us off at the beginning.  They told us there was rope to tie toegther but we decide not to.  Well........as luck would have it........we should of tied together!  It was fun laughing the whole ride.  Tony kept on running into rocks and would give out a yell of fright and remind us the rocks were coming up.  It was fun.  Then Ty suggested to Jess they should try and stand up on the tubes......nope.......Jess landed in the river and got laughs from all! 

There were so many times that we just laughed so hard we peed!  But then, who would notice.........we were all wet anyway!!  LOL

Too bad we didn't have a camera with us but we have the memories.  Ty saved me from getting wayyyyyyyy behind all of the others..  I am not good at steering myself out of the weeds!!  Yuk!!  Not sure if we will do this again but it sure was fun for the first time.  Good choice of people to do this with.  Lover them ALL!!!  They are the best!!

On the way home we stopped at the West Forty in Park Rapids and ate wayyyyy too much food.  Good food and they all rested nicely on the way home.