Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Ozarks 2009

This year the Vancil family went to Lake of the Ozarks again for a large family vacation. This year was special for several reasons. First, it was a celebration trip. My dad is officially retired from 38 years working at Case Corp. Second, it was the last trip we would take as a family with out a little one around.
Travis and I were only able to stay the weekend due to work obligations aka Summer School. However, the rest of the family is still enjoying the sun and water of the Lake.
We left Friday morning around 7AM and spend Friday lounging around the lake. Dad took us all out to dinner Friday night to a place called "The Happy Fisherman's". We all enjoyed our food.
After dinner Travis and I hit up a putt-putt place down in a gully hidden in the trees. It was cool. They had fans blowing and it was really cleverly decorated. We had a great time!

Unfortunately Saturday the 4th was a wash out, cloudy and rainy. Travis and I went to a large outlet mall. We could have stayed all day it was 3 levels, however, we did the entire mall in 2.5 hours. WHEW! This pregnant woman was tired!
When we got back to the condo we were blessed with about 5 hours of sunshine pool time. We enjoyed hanging out with mom, dad, Justin and Jane. I love extended family vacations!
The rain held off until the first firework went off around 9PM. We ended up with a large thunderstorm that drove us away from the open water of the lake/pool, and back to the condo to sit on the covered deck and just watch the rain and all the boats that were on the lake come flying back in.
Sunday wasn't much better, cold, cloudy and breezy. We rented a boat for the afternoon and took a boat ride with sweatshirts, towels covering our legs and hoods on. We had a hard time believing it was July 5th! Mom has a picture of that so when she gets home I'll post it.
We had a great time and wish we could have stayed longer. Almost as soon as we pulled out of town on Sunday night around 5:30 the sun came out! Go Figure! :)
We had a great time and hopefully will get to go again someday!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Oh I think I envy you - two of my favorite places. We love the Happy Fisherman! And Randys across the hiway. Sounds like you golfed at Sugar Creek. That is always fun and so are the go-carts. But it can get HOT there even with the fans. Sometimes I miss having the house/condo there, but not too often. Glad you had fun