The Final Week of Summer!

Man, this summer has been crazy hot, but crazy fun!  School starts next Thursday, so for our final week we grabbed our library summer reading coupons and cashed those babies in.  First, though, here is a photo of our annual Clark/Noehren Acquire smackdown.
 One morning a crazy storm came through.  I'd never seen lines in the sky like this before! 
With our coupons we headed to Waveland - a historic house we've been to a zillion times for Haley's soccer practices, but this week we finally went inside!  It was actually really cool!  It was built by the Bryan family who came through Cumberland Gap with Daniel Boone (they are related.) 
 Grant made friends with a cicada and a cicada shell.
Then Friday, we headed to Louisville and went to the Louisville Slugger museum for the first time.  It was actually cooler than I thought it would be. 
The kids loved their free mini bats.

 Then we headed across town the Louisville Zoo.
 
 We somehow missed this fun little gem last year.  'Is that a hippo that pees when you turn the handle?' you might ask.  Why yes..yes it is.  We got a big kick out of that. 
 Haley tried out a cool ropes course.
 I was surprsied when she got nervous on the tricky higher level and quickly headed down.  It's good to know she has limits! 
It was a great week and a fun way to say goodbye to summer!

Comments

Jennifer's Kitchen said…
That all looks SO fun!! What a great send-off to summer. We "just barely" got out of school at the end of June, so we still have a month left of summer. BTW, love the free mini bats! So cool! Love all the fun things you did. And the crazy cloud picture, too.
August 6, 2011 at 9:51 AM
Anonymous said…
So does Haley have some sort of rope attached to her on the ropes course? It looks scary. Alexander is making friends with cicada shells here too.

Cara
August 7, 2011 at 5:36 PM
Anonymous said…
Glad to see you are keeping up the Acquire tradition. What a fun summer you all had! Many happy memories!
August 9, 2011 at 8:32 AM
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