My Little Fortune Cookie: Another Great Week in the Ozarks!

Our annual Ozark vacation is always something fun to look forward too! We have so much fun, in fact, that I usually need a week to "recover" when we get home!!! This year, there were 31 people in attendance, from age 7 to 83! We ate, drank, shopped, swam in the pool, swam in the lake, cruised in the boat, tubed behind the boat, played Bingo, played a week-long scavenger hunt, cracked open a "grown-up pinata" one night, then did the same with a "kid pinata" during daylight, had a water balloon toss, hula hoop contests, stayed up late, ate breakfast on the deck with the ducks swimming below and the squirrels begging for food! It was HOT, HOT, HOT, in the 100s, all week, until Friday, when Robert and Ann arrived from Redmond. At that point, suddenly the temps dropped into the 90s...whew!
The last night, Kayli laid down in bed and showing me her bruises, said, "Whew, Mom, my body is beat up from head to toe, I just don't know how much more of this vacation I can take!"

Kayli helps Karen put the boat in the water...

1st full day at the pool. Our group just put the chairs right in the water and stayed put!

Kayli and Hannah were playing Mermaid dolls, when another little girl swam by and just couldn't resist joining in...

Kayli and Hannah went through a lot of water balloons during the group tossing event...

time to start whacking the pinata...

Kayli's cousin, Anna, was 2nd in line to swing the bat. On her first swing, she knocked off one cone. On her 2nd swing, she broke the pinata in half, scattering all the goods! In the end, the cones from the pinata made cool "princess hats"!