Family Vacation Summer 2011

As of this upcoming Saturday we are taking our 1st official vacation as a family.  This will be the first time ever that James and I have taken the girls on an extended vacation from home.  We have done, 2 days max with them...that been it.  Just the 4 of us!


It should be a blast, as long as the weather behaves!


On Saturday we are driving 5 hours north, to Lac du Flambeau Wisconsin.  We will be only 15 minutes from the resort area of Minocqua and Woodruff, Wisconsin.  Right now the only thing that worries me a bit is the 5 hour drive.  That is along time for anyone to drive, let alone little kids stuck in car seats!  We plan on making stops, one most definitely being McDonalds, with a playland to let them use up some energy!!!


The place we are staying at is:  http://www.timberbayresort.com/ and we are staying in the smallest cabin the Cedarwood.  It looks nice, way nicer than some I had seen while scoping out a place to stay!!  And I have only heard nice things about the place and owners. 


Our plans include swimming, playing in the sand, smores, cooking out, campfires, fishing, shopping, swimming, playing in the sand, swimming....to only name a few.


One day, probably later in the week, we want to take a 1 - 11/2 drive to Bonds Falls  http://www.westernup.com/bondfalls/
Also Thursday nite is Pow Wow nite on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation.


We head back home the following Saturday.

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