Coeur D'alene

Last week we drove up to Coeur D'alene for the ISDA Annual Convention.  I've never been to this part of our state, it was beautiful!! It was quite the drive (9 hours) whew! It makes me wonder how on earth we made that drive to Omaha (16 hours) in one day!!! We were crazy! We had a ton of fun while we were there.

Brody fell out of bed the first night and smacked his eye on the night stand on the way down.  I guess that wasn't so fun.  He wouldn't share a bed with Hudson the rest of the trip, because he claimed that Hudson "kicked him out of bed." Poor kid what a rude awakening!

We ate at "Hudson's Hamburgers" famous for their burgers and pie...and that's all they serve is burgers...and pie. They were good burgers though.

On the boardwalk.

Room with a view.  This lake is HUGE!!  We stayed at The Coeur D'alene, a fancy schmancy resort where people look at you funny because you brought your kids.

One of the nights while we were there we went on a pirate dinner cruise. It was fun...and hot.

They gave all the kids some pirate gear.

And put on a show.

Darn it, I didn't have time to get all of the kids in for a picture here.

We switched hotels for the second half of the trip and went to one with a Triple Play attached.  Indoor water park, go carts, mini golf, bumper boats, bowling, lazer tag, rock wall etc. The older kids were in heaven for two days, Joslyn was completely done in by Fri night, too many late nights, too hot, too many people, crappy food. So we called er quits..me and her anyway.  Nate and the boys kept on playing until they all came back in tears because they had to be done. 

The kids were so good in the car, how did we ever travel without and DVD player??