Some Day Trips...

A few weeks ago we decided to do a couple day trips.
We were going to go camping again, but the weather wasn't going to hold up the whole time.
We have been trying to make the most of Chris's time off before he starts rotations.
Chris's parents just came in town for a week (pictures coming soon!),
so right before that we went for a "hike" (more like a nature walk)
and did a beach day.

For our hike we went to Lapham Peak and spent a few hours up there.
It was so pretty and it was nice just to be outside!

Up on the tower.

Drake was really excited to climb up all those stairs!

And here is Drake just being a boy....

Next we decided to go to Pewaukee Lake.
We didn't know it, but there was a Beach Party going on that day
so there was tons of fun things to do.
Here is Drake doing what he loves,
playing with trucks and dirt, sand, rocks (anything that is messy).

One of the things you could do there was test drive different water activities.
And it was all free!

The highlight of the day was when one of the sausages made a appearance.
Our baseball team here has a sausage race during every home game.
Basically is just some people dressed as different sausages (hot dog, Italian, bratwurst, etc.) that race around the outside track on the field.
Drake loves this part, as does the whole crowd.
Well, this is the hot dog, but Drake just calls all of them sausages.
Anyways, so Drake was so excited to see one at the beach.
He didn't love being right next to him though.

He just wanted to stand there and watch him.
This is Drake giving the hot dog a thumbs up.
He stood there like this for like 5 minutes.
And then he just wanted to follow the hot dog around.
It was super funny!

Well, it was so much fun getting to spend a bunch of time with Chris the last two weeks!
Now he has started his first rotation (surgery)
so I don't think we will be seeing much of him for the next couple months.
But Chris is so excited to be out of the classroom and actually getting to see some things now!