Vacation Part 2

O.K. I have posted one and now here is the other part of the vacation.  I am trying to do this without anyone helping me so here it goes...

We arrived at the The Ritz on Sunday afternoon and checked into our room, as I walked out onto the patio I started to relax almost instantly, the picture says it all...

This is the view from my patio.

How wonderful is this view!  Here are some more pictures of the grounds and some of our activities while we were there.

The kids acting like little kids and playing on the swing.

The other view from the Patio!

Emily and Grant totally enjoying the "view"

Just one more picture of the grounds.

This is what they do to the trees when they die - they sculpt them into different things - very cool.

Scott having smores - they have them every night at around 7:00 all free!

I loved to sit on the patio in the morning and have coffee, it was so quiet and relaxing. And at night they would have a fire and everyone could make their own smores!  Scott and Grant really loved that!

We were able to go swimming in the heated pool, fish, take out kayaks and do a lot of different hiking trails - it was really a lot of fun.  The day we went fishing was not the best of weather but we enjoyed it anyway.  The next few pictures are of us on the boat.

Captain Scott

My future retirement home!

Aren't they sweet! 

This was 2 seconds after I snapped the first picture!

Here are some more pictures of other things we got to do - such as skeet shooting for Grant and Scott, horseback riding for me and Emily and just general relaxing.  So here are some more pictures.

Emily checking out the horses and below right before we had to saddle up our horse!

Yes we brushed and saddled our own horses!

The kids had it really hard!

Grant's first room service meal

Learning how to shoot skeet! (He liked this more than I like but oh well)

Literally hanging out at the pool.

The swing was a big hit with the kids.

Next are just some pictures that I took while we had them dressed up and cooperating.  Some of the pictures came out really nice.

My beautiful children!

My beautiful family!

My silly children!

Grant is almost as tall as Scott now!

This was a "statue" in one of the little towns where we had dinner...

Emily was afraid it was going to move if she got too close...

Turns out it does not move but Emily was never really comfortable with it!

This is the hallway to our room - can you say "Twilight Zone"!!

O.K. enough for one day - I have figured out how to get most of this done so I was on a roll.  I still have one more day of vacation pictures to post so I will do that soon. - hope you enjoy these pictures!!