Bucket List 7/30-8/5

Spray park! We headed out after Quiet Time one afternoon.

Ryan loved controlling the water.

Watery fun.

Yep. We were the only ones there. And yep. A storm brewed up in the formerly sunny skies. Thunder sent us home.

Pirate Day! We read about how to talk like a pirate...

Drank "Shark Bite" drinks (blue Kool-Aid with cherry syrup (blood) in the bottom)-rather hard to see here.

Here they are with their tools building their ship.

And the crew!

Bella checks the map...(I love that her hook hand is hanging off the ship).

LAND HO!

Bella found the pirate booty-a box of jewelry, coins and chocolate!

They had to walk the plank.

Bella cheers Ryan on.

State Fair!!! The man in the cow apron is our governor. I tried to get the kids to go over and get a free milkshake from him, but they were too scared.

I was all set for the kids to feed the goats, but they didn't have it this year. Bella didn't care-she was around ANIMALS!

Officially called "Little Hands on the Farm", Bella calls this "following the chicken feet." It was a favorite of hers last year, and it was the first thing we did this year. And the last. Yep. Did it twice.

So what do they do? The kids get hats, aprons, and little baskets. They have to gather eggs, get food for the cows and pigs on the farm, and plant seeds to harvest later.

And of course the ride tractors!

And of course Bella chose the pink one.

At the end they turn in their crops, get a "dollar" which they can trade for milk, string cheese, apple sauce, or other healthy goodies.

This is the cutest cow I have EVER seen!

I knew the minute Bella saw the pony rides that she'd want one. She loved it.

Ryan wasn't so sure about Teddy the Pony, but I couldn't let him miss the chance and I walked along side him.

Pettin' calves.

Had I let her, Bella would have laid down in the straw with the calves!

They both rode the tiny roller coaster. Their faces tell you how they felt; Bella was ecstatic, Ryan wasn't so sure. He ended up enjoying it, but not enough to go a second time with Bella.

He enjoyed the race cars.

And I enjoyed fried dough! Yummy.

This will be true sooner than I care to imagine...

We spent part of this gorgeous day downtown.

That's the statue in the middle of town-on the circle (hence our nickname Circle City).

We ate at the base of the statue. We brought a picnic, so this knocked out two of our items in one fell swoop!

And Bella had a blast feeding her sandwich crust to the birds.

We self-toured the capitol building which, surprisingly, both kids really liked.

Here's the view from inside, looking up at the dome. Bella enjoyed it so much that she asked to back the next day!

Bella starts school in just over a week-how did the summer go so fast? I've mellowed on the Bucket List-there's no way we could have accomplished everything on there. But we did a ton of new things and made some great memories. There's always next summer...