Day Trip

When we woke up this morning Mike rolled over and said, "Can we just go somewhere to get away today?" We started brainstorming where we could go for a day trip. There are tons of state parks that are day trip worthy...but on Memorial Day weekend they would be overrun with people and boats! Mike finally suggested taking the boys to Cabela's. While this didn't seem "day trip " worthy to me (wasn't as exciting as going hiking and swimming at the state park)...I knew all three boys would enjoy it. We asked Brody if he could go anywhere today for a fun trip where would he go. His immediate response was, "CABELA'S!" That sealed the deal!

We may not have gone jet skiing or tubing behind a boat on the lake, but the boys still got to climb around in a boat that was parked in front of Cabela's.

We didn't spend the night in a hot sticky tent trying to sleep on the hard ground while listening to the crickets chirp outside...but the boys pretended like they were camping in one of the tents set up in the camping section of the store.

Mike and I didn't spend hours hiking through the woods with Barrett on our back and Brody trudging along beside us, but we did spend hours walking around Cabela's with Barrett in the backpack! (Brody took this picture of me and Barrett playing inside the tent. I think he did a great job framing the picture! I see a future little photographer!)

They boys didn't get to fish at a lake or hunt for wild game with their guns...but they did get to shoot at exotic animals in Cabela's shooting gallery (laser guns).

It may not have an exotic vacation in the great outdoors, but we had so much fun together as a family. And in some ways, going to Cabela's is like taking a day trip to the great outdoors...only it's with air conditioning!