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Back from Minnesota! (Saint Louis, Kamp Dels, and family wedding)
By Rebecca in Learning in Freedom
August 22, 2008

I know I said that we were driving up to Minnesota for a wedding but we took a detour and stayed two nights in Saint Louis, Mo.  We went to the Gateway Arch, road along the Mississippi River on a river boat, and let the boys take a little helicopter tour.  We also picnicked at the sculpture park.  Finally, we stayed a week at Kamp Dels in Minnesota.




Looking up at the Gateway Arch


Base of the arch


View of Saint Louis FROM the inside of the arch
  

Riverboats on the Mississippi

Family photographer with her mom on the River Boat - These pictures were from Kelsey's camera.

Forgot about little brother!
Mom and dad at the Sculpture park




My husband's favorite fast food restaurant growing up was Hardee's and in Texas they are all Carl Jr's.  But, up north we found a HARDEES!  I won't even go into Saint Louis PIZZA!  I love IMO'S. 



We stayed at Kamp Dels for a week and LOVED LOVED LOVED every second of the Minnesota summer weather: dry mid 80s during the day and 60s at night.  Hey, if "snow birds" are people from up north who flee to the south to escape extreme winter temperatures, does that make us FIRE BIRDS??? 

A few of Rodney's family members are seasonal campers there at the park (and a few live there) so we were with family the whole week that we were at Kamp Dels.  We could walk up the road to eat at his Aunt's trailer or go visit his cousin down the path.  His uncle let us stay at his camper under the trees and right across from the water park. 

Here is a video of Matthan jumping off the diving board at the pool:






A view from our deck.  It was tree covered and overlooked the water park.


Kelsey at the water park.  I usually just sat and read a book as the children played. Of course, Matthan played tennis and found some family members to visit and play basketball with.  We didn't see him  much because he was always walking around the camp grounds.  There was so much to do!


Christian playing in the fire pit. 

On the day of the wedding we stayed the night in Mankato but headed back to Kamp Dels that next morning.  The wedding was so much fun.  All of my children danced and had a great time with their cousins.  The wedding pictures are all on my snail camera. 

It took us three days of driving to make it to Minnesota: August 10 - From the coast of Texas up though Dallas then onto 69-75 to Durant, OK for the night.  August 11 - Up through Muskogee onto 44 to Saint Louis, and then up 61 along the Mississippi River through Hannibal into Iowa and up to Waterloo.... August 13- Our final destination was Kamp Dels in Waterville, Mn.  This was a different route for us as we usually stay on 35 all the way up and avoid Dallas!

Our trip back only took two days because we didn't jump over to Saint Louis.  We were silly enough to go through Dallas again.  In other words, we sat in Dallas for an hour.  Kelsey caught an image of one of the reasons why:

 

And my daughter's take on Kamp Dels:

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