Vacation Part 3: Minnesota

After nearly 2 months of procrastinating and avoiding blogging.  I am going to finish up with our 3rd stop on our month long trip at Christmas time.  After our trip to Illinois, we left and headed north.  We drove about 7 hours the first day (which we have found is LONG enough with the two girls in tow), and stopped for the night in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.  We met up with Kevin's Uncle Mike & Aunt Mandy and their 4 kids.  The girls warmed up very quick to them.  We had supper at the hotel, went swimming and hit the hay because we still had another 5-6 hours on the road the next day!  After a quick breakfast and loading the car back up we were on the road again and heading to northern Minnesota.  We arrived early afternoon and we began a week of fun, laughter, game playing and love.  The girls loved playing with all of their cousins.  After nearly a week there, we finally got some snow and the girls were able to play.  Lauren loved it and wanted to play for hours.  Kaelin didn't like it so much.