The Anderson's and a Surprise

My brother AJ, his wife Shelly and daughter Sidney came up this weekend. They got in late Friday night. When they pulled up Josh and I were in the driveway waiting for them. Josh asked if there was someone in the back of the van and I just said it must be Sidney. They parked the van and the back door opened and out came my mom. They surprised me for my birthday by bringing my mom along. I was so happy to see her. She has not been able to make it up to our house yet and it's nice she was able to get a little vacation too.



Me and my mom

Saturday morning Sidney headed down to the lake to watch Taylor swim. We were also watching Josh's dog for the weekend.

Saturday afternoon we headed up to the Apostle Islands. We took a ferry in Bayfield over to Madeline Island.

Waiting for the ferry to come back.

Ferry coming in.

Loading onto the ferry.

Heading out to the island.

Jamie said we could move to Bayfield, but only if we lived in that house in the middle. It was huge and beautiful.

Here comes the island.

Here is Tom's Burned Down Cafe. It sounds like there use to be a cafe and then it burnt down. Now they just have a tarp and some tin roofing. It looked like fun, but the kids wanted to explore the island some more.

Jakob, Seth and Sidney

Some guys car.

We drove around the island a little bit then decided to hang out at a park near the shore.

Shelly and AJ

Jamie was trying to get Seth to go into the water.

Testing out the water.

And it was cold.

Sunday we all just lounged around the house for awhile. The kids decided the van needed to be washed. And what better way to do this then with water guns.

And we also did a little swimming.

Mom was able to lay out and relax a bit.

While the kids were swimming Shelly and I starting making homemade bagels. We got the dough mixed together, let it rise, then we shaped the bagels, popped them in the frig for overnight and headed into town. We hit the candy store first, then did a little shopping in some of the other stores. Once we got home it was time for supper. We had fried chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy, corn, buttermilk biscuits and chocolate cake for dessert. That is one of the best birthday meal ever. After supper Jamie took me and my mom and boat ride around the flowage.

Loons

An otter. You can't see him very good. The sun was starting to go down so there is bad lighting.

He didn't like us following him around.

Eagle

Sunset on the flowage.