Bear Lake

At the beginning of August we went to the Hulse family reunion. It started with a family "Thinking Society" (book club), dinner, and talent show.  Jace showed off some basketball dribbling skills for his talent. Before we checked into our condo at Bear Lake, we toured the Minnetonka cave in Idaho.  It had stalactites, stalagmites, and other interesting rock formations.  It is 40 degrees in the cave year round so we had to dress warmly. During the week we rode wave runners, went swimming, went on the boat, played at the beach, played mini golf, had family dinners, and played volleyball, basketball, kickball and dodge ball. Amos and I took turns playing games at night with the adults. Of course we went to La Beau's for shakes and Bear Lake Pizza.  Violet seemed to like going on the wave runner.  When Jace and Amos went on the boat, Amos tried wake surfing and Jace went on a tube ride. At the pool, Jace went down the slide into the pool by himself.  He was wearing a puddle jumper but his face still went into the water for a second.  He loved it and went down the slide a ton.  He also went off the diving board a couple of times but wanted Amos to catch him. Raspberry Days was happening while we were there.  I went with some of the ladies to the booths of people selling things.  I also went on a walk in the mornings with some of the ladies. Jace was very into the playground near the beach this year.  He wanted to play there a lot.  We had a great time!

Colorado

In July Grandpa Mayne took Jace and me (Amos) with Uncle Poosh and his boys to Colorado in a rented van/SUV. It took about 9 hours to get to Denver. Jace did great on the trip, but definitely got tired of being in the car. Jace and I slept over at Grandpa Mayne's Thursday night which Jace was excited about. Friday night after checking into the motel we went to a Rockies game. The Pirates won. Jace was also excited to stay in a hotel. Saturday we went to Uncle Jake's grave at the military cemetery. Then we spent the rest of the day at Lakeside Amusement Park. The lines were short all day, which was great. It was a very old fashioned park with lots of character. Jace went on every ride they would let him on including the Cyclone (big white rollercoaster), even though they wouldn't let him on the little dragon rollercoaster. We had planned on going to a nice Mexican restaurant with entertainment, but we were tired and not feeling well after all the rides, and the line was like an hour long so we went to Denny's. On the Sunday drive home we stopped in Gypsum and Glenwood springs to put wild flowers on Jace's great Grandpa Mayne's grave.