What a time we had this year as we made our annual trip to Hot Springs for a week of boating, tubing and just plain relaxing. This year our oldest son and his family of 8 children and his wife came with us. The kids really had a blast flying behind the boat of our dear friend since high school, Randy. He brought 2 of his grandchildren and with our children and grandchildren we had a total of 12 under the age of 14 with us this year. They had a blast with the hot tub, swimming and all the boating. The weather was great and only the day we left did the storms come in. The only bummer this year was the restaurant that has some of the best chicken fried steak was closed during the middle of our vacation but Grandpa C. came to the rescue and cooked breakfast almost every morning we were there. We took turns on the suppers and lunch was on the boat when we got tired of tubing. Grandpa C. made sure we had plenty of snacks and sent the left overs home with the grandchildren to enjoy. Also we made out trek to Wal-Mart and stocked up on perishables so we were all set when we found out the restaurant would be closed for two days. It was a good thing I started a couple of months ago stocking up so we were able to cook our own meals. We had our own little restaurant available for us. When the children were not tubing, the boats were nice diving boards for the children to plunge in the lake and even the babies had fun playing in the water. Once our youngest grandson was looking over the side of the little plastic raft he was floating in with Grandpa C. and when he asked Abigail to watch him while he untangled some goggles all of a sudden we heard lots of commotion. When we looked to find out what was the matter grandpa c was pulling Byson out of the water. He had looked so far over the edge he fell in face first. Momma Catherine was quick to scoop him up and Perry IV took his place on the raft. He was not interested in looking over the edge and had no problems staying in the raft. Pictured above the 3 musketeers in mean our 3 oldest of the clan enjoys the view from the tree house in the back yard where we stayed.
What a time we had this year as we made our annual trip to Hot Springs for a week of boating, tubing and just plain relaxing. This year our oldest son and his family of 8 children and his wife came with us. The kids really had a blast flying behind the boat of our dear friend since high school, Randy. He brought 2 of his grandchildren and with our children and grandchildren we had a total of 12 under the age of 14 with us this year. They had a blast with the hot tub, swimming and all the boating. The weather was great and only the day we left did the storms come in. The only bummer this year was the restaurant that has some of the best chicken fried steak was closed during the middle of our vacation but Grandpa C. came to the rescue and cooked breakfast almost every morning we were there. We took turns on the suppers and lunch was on the boat when we got tired of tubing. Grandpa C. made sure we had plenty of snacks and sent the left overs home with the grandchildren to enjoy. Also we made out trek to Wal-Mart and stocked up on perishables so we were all set when we found out the restaurant would be closed for two days. It was a good thing I started a couple of months ago stocking up so we were able to cook our own meals. We had our own little restaurant available for us. When the children were not tubing, the boats were nice diving boards for the children to plunge in the lake and even the babies had fun playing in the water. Once our youngest grandson was looking over the side of the little plastic raft he was floating in with Grandpa C. and when he asked Abigail to watch him while he untangled some goggles all of a sudden we heard lots of commotion. When we looked to find out what was the matter grandpa c was pulling Byson out of the water. He had looked so far over the edge he fell in face first. Momma Catherine was quick to scoop him up and Perry IV took his place on the raft. He was not interested in looking over the edge and had no problems staying in the raft. Pictured above the 3 musketeers in mean our 3 oldest of the clan enjoys the view from the tree house in the back yard where we stayed.
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