Little Falls

Tuesday, July 7, 2015 - Russell Springs, KY

Alex and Avander were playing with the little boy next door all week, but he would not tell the boys what his name was.  I would guess he is about 7 or 8, so I am not sure why he would not tell them his name, so Papa told Alex to call him Brenda...  So this morning while Alex was playing with the boy he asked the little boys what his name was again.  When the boy would not tell him Alex said okay I will just call you Brenda.  The little boy responded by saying "I am not a girl, my name Cooper".  Well I guess that worked.  LOL

Today we decided we would head for the Little Falls.  The lake is full of debris from all of the rain they have been getting.  The level of the lake is also very high.  We heard it is about 6 feet above normal.  So we had to be very careful driving in the main channel.  There are entire trees floating in the water.  We successfully made it to Little Falls.  We almost did not recognize it since the water was so high.  The falls were not visible.

Avander and I took Gracie over to the shore and Avander once again played Gracie favorite game...rock.  :)

Mike was standing in the creek that is normally about knee deep.

Ami was enjoying cookies in the boat.

Jess and Alex went paddling down the creek.  They got quite a ways down the creek.

Pretty soon the boys had watched a couple other kids

Mike J took a short video of the boys jumping.  Below is the link.

Alex and Avander Jumping

Even Grace enjoyed watching them.  :)

Then it was time to get some tubing in.  First up, Jess and Avander.  There are a lot of pictures, but Avander appeared to be having a lot of fun, so I couldn't decide which ones to exclude, so they all got added.  :)  (But that is what usually happens)

Then it looked like he was tired and ready to take a nap....on the tube.  :)

Next up were Mike J and Alex.

Then of course Jess and Mike J had to give it a try.  :)

It was another wonderful day!

Geocache

Monday, July 6, 2015 - Russell Springs, KY

We looked up to see if there were any geocaches around the lake and we found several.  One was not very far away from Alligator II, so we headed for that cove.  We did not have far to go to get to the cove where the geocache was located.  As soon as we got there we pulled out the umbrella and had lunch.  While we were fixing lunch Alex went out paddling.

And Gracie found her spot.  :)

Alex realized he was not attached to the boat and he got out a little further then he was happy with, so Mike J had to go out and bring him back to the boat.

After lunch we swam toward shore but I checked my phone and noticed we swam to the wrong side of the cove, but we quickly corrected our mistake and we swam to the other side of the cove.  :)  Ami liked riding in her float.

When we got to shore Avander wanted to throw rocks for Gracie.  This is one of her favorite games to play.  :)

The hardest part of finding the geocache was climbing up the hill to the tree.  Mike J took a picture of Jess and I pointing at where the geocache is located.

Since I knew Bill was in the area I had sent him a text message to see if we could connect.  When we got back to the boat he had responded and let us know he was down by Alligator I, so we headed out to see if we could find them.  No such luck...  Maybe tomorrow.

After driving around for a while we found ourselves another cove across the lake from Alligator II to do some swimming.  Mike, Mike J and the boys went out on the towable.

Jess went out paddling.

While Gracie, Ami and I stayed in the boat and played.

We were not anchored, so every now and then I needed to move the boat.  Mike, Alex and Avander enjoyed going for a short ride on the towable.

Oops, we left Mike J. behind.

So we went back and picked him up.  :)

Then Avander and Papa decided to do a little showing off.  :)

Then Mike J came in and pulled the boys around for just a minute.

It was another wonderful day!

Putt-Putt

Sunday, July 5, 2015 - Russell Springs, KY

Nick and Megan were up early this morning and headed out.  They wanted a good nights sleep before heading north.  :)

It was raining when we got up this morning and was supposed to rain off and on most of the day, so we decided not to go out on the boat today.  We took our time getting ready this morning and shortly after lunch headed into town to run some errands.  On our way into town I just had to take a picture of Ami!  :)

 While we were in town the sun came out for a while, so we decided to do a round of putt-putt.  :)  Alex and Avander got into it at first, but around the 15^th hole they were over it, so we skipped a couple of holes and called it a game.  :)

After our round of golf we headed for Sonic to get some ice cream.  Ice cream is always good after a round of golf.  :)

Next we were off to the grocery store to pick up groceries for the rest of the week, then back to the trailer.  The rain finally moved out of the area and we were able to make a fire and cook hot dogs over the fire and of course s’mores.

It was another wonderful day!