Lake George Getaway!!!!!

You'll be all "blogged out" after reading this post! It took me forever to post it! Oh well... here goes!

Did I ever say how much I LOVE Lake George!

Every year when we go, I love it even more, especially now that Max and Sonja are getting older and can enjoy everything there is to offer there. It's just like living my childhood all over again through their eyes. As I watch them, I can see they probably feel the same way I did when my parents took my sister and I there. We would become so excited during our yearly trek there that, by the time we arrived, we were exhausted (which I'm sure my parents didn't mind at all!)

Much like when I was a kid, our first day there was fairly low key. We got the camper settled and met a few people and just relaxed at our camp ground. I've got to say, This campground had it ALL! You really didn't need to go anywhere to have fun because this place had SO much to do! They too have theme weeks (as many parks these days have). We arrived during Winter Wonderland week! Many people had their Christmas decorations up at their campsites. One unique decoration we saw was a Christmas tree made from inner tubes in various sizes. The smallest being the top, then they increased in size down to an enormous one, all in neon colors.

Throughout the day, they had scheduled events are various parts of the resort, most of them being Christmas themed. They had a recreation hall which held most of the crafting events. There were also many books to read as well as crayons and coloring books for those rainy days.
An example of a days schedule is
10:00am Build a Buddy
10:30- Bounce time!!
10:30- Family Field Games
11:00- Frog Hunt
11:30 Snowman S'mores Craft
12:00- Kickball
2:00pm- Family Softball
2:00pm- Gem Mining
2:00- Children's Holiday Party! (holiday crafts, tattoos Games snacks and a visit from Santa!)
3:00 Gem Contest
4:30 Water Play!
4:00 Teen Holiday Party! (team contests &games, make your own sundaes)
6:30- Wagon trail Shuttle
7:00 Live Entertainment "Band of Gold"

Holiday Buffet- Turkey with all the trimmings!

They have two pools, mountain trails for hiking and biking, pedal cars, electric boats and so much more. Like I said, you never have to leave the park!
We decided to go to the Build a Buddy craft at the rec hall. They kids LOVED it. Unlike the Build a bear, they got to stuff their buddy with their OWN hands! You can stuff them with friendship, kindness, kisses, hugs etc etc.

Max liked it SO much, he dove in with BOTH hands!
Sonja chose to use a lot of friendship!
Max, busy stuffing away. Like the place he chose to rest the stuffing pusher (the red thing resting on his upper arm)?
Max uses all of his concentration.

He pushed so much stuffing into his Moose "Bullwinkle" The woman said his was the second heaviest buddy!
"There! THAT should do it!"
Sonja hands her buddy "Teddy" to the woman, to have it weighed and measured.
Teddy weighs 12 ounces!
Hmmmm....... How tall do you think Teddy is?
Teddy is 18 inches tall!!
It's official! Here's Sonja getting Teddy's birth certificate!
Bullwinkle is 16 inches tall!
How much does Bullwinkle weigh?
15 ounces!!!! Here's Bullwinkles birth certificate! He's all yours Maxie!
Max checks him all over before giving him a big hug.
Sonja gives Teddy a hug too!
A storm approaching. This is a picture of the frog pond. At night, the peepers and bullfrogs make their beautiful music.
Dan decided to take Max and Sonja on the pedal bikes.
Daddy, Max and Sonja heading out for a cruise.
Sonja thought her bike was a bit dirty so she got busy and washed it. Maybe she'll go into the detailing business someday!
Max and Sonja (taken with the right hand side of the fishing pond behind them). There was a little walking path across the fishing pond, which is stocked with pan fish for all to catch.
Almost every night, we took the kids up to the store to have an ice cream. This particular night, Max was misbehaving. Dan had just finished telling Max that if he didn't behave he would have np ice cream. You can tell by the look on Max's face just what he thought about that.
ALL SMILES! Good behavior pays off in spades. Yummmm..... rocky road ice cream!!!
"Look at us!"

Notice his shirt? It says, "As a matter of fact, I am a rocket scientist!" Well, you wouldn't know it by the way Max puts his helmet on (If you can't tell, it's on backwards!)!
A visit to the big mini put and Max thinks he's at the U.S. open! Here he lines up his next shot.
"CHEESE!"
Ummm.....ahhh....nice look there
We found a store in town that had all kind of stuff. We had so much fun just trying on all of the hats, glasses, disguises etc. Who says you can't have fun for free?!
Sonja Boone?
During our stay, there was an huge storm that came through. It was the same storm that caused so much damage in the New England states. There were tornado watches in the local area, with some neighboring townships sustaining damage from the wind and flash flooding. As a matter of fact, our campsite had a mini stream going through it for a few hours during the worst of the storm. Other sites were completely flooded, leaving the campers to seek out sites on higher ground or leave all together.
All of that rain didn't dampen Sonja and Max's spirit or fun! They just put on their raincoat and boots and made mud pies!

Max seems to have gotten bitten by the shutter bug. The picture above, and the following pictures of Dan, were all taken by Max. While I was at one of the laundry centers at the campground, this is what they were doing.



Raining out? Go to the rec hall! Here we arrive at te rec hall. Sonja immediately took her coat off and off she goes with the other kids!
Sonja gets a butterfly painted on her face.
Max a teddy bear.
Teddy bear art was the craft of the day.
Max really getting into his work.
After the crafts the rain stopped and the sun started shining. The kids decided they'd pan for gems. Sonja found a huge sodalite gem as well as adventurine, bloodstone, citrine and jasper among others.
Max found an obsidian arrowhead, sodalite, crystal, garnets, emeralds, and amethysts and others. They loved it!

After we enjoyed our campground for a few days, we took at trip to the Great Escape Splashwater Kingdom.
Sonja wasn't shy about getting her picture taken with the Looney Tunes characters. Max on the other hand wanted nothing at all to do with them.
He would rather see the animals. They had a newborn goat there that I just wanted to take home with me. I case you haven't guessed, I LOVE goats!
Sonja the cowpoke! She got right on and wanted to take the horse herself instead of having the horse led. Max again wanted no part of riding the horses.

Max at first, wouldn't go on any of the rides. As soon as Sonja went on them he would say "I want" and point to the ride, trying to tell me he wanted to go on. On occasion, the ride operator would stop so that Max could get on, only for Max to refuse again.
Max wasn't afraid of the merry-go-round though.
Sonja doing the "No-hands" thing like the big girls....
That is until the ride started to drop!
Ummm.... Dan.... don't you think you're a little big for that ride?
Max looks as if to say "Opps, I dropped my keys in the water!'
Sonja klanging away on the bell as Max gives the universal "quiet" sign.


I think this one says it all. Sonja waving without even looking, as if to say, Yah...Hi Mom...whatever....
Max looks so small riding on the swing with Daddy.
Sonja wants to go on all of the rides, even the scary adult rides. You wouldn't know this is the same kid that last year was afraid to ride most of the bigger kiddy rides!
Max also became more daring as the day went on. He too wanted to ride the adult rides.
Oh.. how I wish I could ride too sometimes. I used to love riding all of the rides, especially the scary ones. Don't feel sorry for me though, now I get to see the delight in my children's faces, which I may not if I rode too! I love it!
Max gives an evil look as he pretends to give Sonja a motorcycle ride.

Sonja having fun as Max sleeps this one out.

"Are you ready?"
"Here we go!"
At the Magic forest, they have a diving horse. This is her prior to her dive.
Here she is, ready to go!
"Spllaassshhh!"

"Hi Mom!"

A visit with Santa. Max wouldn't even go into Santa's house. I had to take the picture from the door threshold.

We had a lot of fun and may go up again before the snow flies for the changing of the leaves, as it is sooo beautiful.


Sonja's birthday is September 1st!

Well.....Until next time.....