Poconos Part 3

Here are the pictures from part 2 of the Poconos (and other pictures that I forgot to post the first time!). As you can see, during the second half of our vacation we spotted Bigfoot. Or a bear. You really can't tell from this picture, but since I was there, I can tell you that it was, in fact, a big bear. My point and shoot camera takes rotten pictures to begin with, but they are really bad when the subject is moving. And they are especially really bad when the photographer is yelling, "WHERE'S MY CAMERA?? THERE'S A BEAR, THERE'S A BEAR!!!! while jumping up and down on the seat throwing papers all over the place... So here's the bear ... and I left a little corner of the car in the picture so you can see that we were really pretty close to the big bear.

And here is the bear running away from us. Rob assured me that if the bear had moved towards us WE would have been the one running away:

But the bears were not the only animals that were spotted in our trip to the mountains. Here's tiny peeper that the kids found. He's kind of a super peeper since he fell between the slats on our deck and lived to tell the tail (or hop away as the case may be...)

Then we saw some ducks heading out for a family paddle:

You can't see it, but Grandpa is actually inspecting a giant toad that the kids found:

Here Hannah and Lizzie are surrounded by deer in the backyard of our condo:

And here, Tommy, Hannah and Lizzie were tossing bread to the squirrels. Seriously, it was like we were pioneers or something...:

We did have some rain during the week, but we made the best of it by going out to dinner! It did stop raining long enough for me to snap this picture of Beanie and the girls with Lake Harmony in the background:

I taught Hannah and Lizzie that the slide (the big dangerous metal slide!) went much faster if you slid on your jacket:

 

Dad and Beanie relaxing in front of the condos (where we spent much of the week!):

Tommy carries on the proud tradition of making bunny ears (or devil horns) in a picture:

Oh wait, there IS one m ore animal photo. Here are Tommy, Lizzie, Brenna and Hannah pretending to be dogs. Aunt Tina is not pretending to be a dog:

The kids put on a puppet show with socks and a golf club cover -- and (not surprisingly) absolutely no plot:

Here's the fireplace of the condo on the lake that I am just SURE Rob is going to buy me for my birthday. Hannah and Lizzie were imitating how easily Cash would fit in at the condo:

Oh and there was golfing, too! Here are this year's golfers: Terry, Dad, Beanie and Casey:

This was Beanie's second time golfing, but she sure does look the part, doesn't she?

Three of my favorite people at Terra Cottage ... I love this picture of the girls:

And here's the whole picture of us at Terra Cottage (again!):

And here's the gang at Hog Heaven. T.A. and Ann went to the nearby casino, so Tina took the kids for ice cream and the rest of us tagged along. And Grandpa paid!

Here's another rainy day activity: Mad Libs. If you've never played Mad Libs with 8 and 9 year olds every other word is either poop or fart or some other body function. It's a hoot -- at least to them:

The girls waiting for the movie (Mr. Popper's Penguins) to start. The best part about the movie theater was that the soda and popcorn only cost $3 each. A total bargain. AND the soda was small enough and the movie short enough that NO ONE had to go to the bathroom until the movie was over:

And that is, as they say, the rest of the story: