Eagle Ridge for a work vacation

It was that time of year again, my work summer retreat.  I had to work 2.5 days of it and the rest was vacation, baby!  We left Monday the 15th and got back Saturday the 20th in the evening.  It was a great trip.  We had our same 3-bedroom villa as we had last year – Townhouse 5.  We also got to have our same babysitter come back and watch the girls two evenings while Ryan and I worked.  Her name is Helene.  I hope we get her back again next year if we have our work retreat there again.   Besides the working, which wasn’t too much work, lol – we got to have a lot of fun as a family.  We swam, we biked, we ate lots of fattening junk food and resort food (lol), we shopped at our favorite boutique – Poopsies, as well as other shops.  We went pontooning, horseback riding, and went to the spa!  Yes, the spa!  The girls got their fingernails and toenails done and I got a swedish massage and facial.  Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!  lol.  We also drove a little bit into Iowa and went to the place called Crystal Lake Caves.  It was neat and awesome for the girls to see a cave for the first time.  Oh and we lounged around, was lazy and watched movies.  ROFL.  A great vacation all around!

The only……teeny negatives, if you want to call them that about the trip were I dropped and broke my iPhone (sniff, sniff).  I locked the keys in the van (but Galena territory security got them out for FREE!!) and Kylie had another bike accident and bumped her head – no major damage though.

So all and all a great trip!  I do not think we took much pictures, though, sad to say.  We were so busy having fun we didn’t have the camera on us.  I’ll have to dig through the cards and see what was taken.

A week and 1/2 and we are on our way to Mt. Vernon to visit family for the 4th.  Then the next vacay is a camping trip with friends THEN our cruise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   YAY!!!! What a fantastic jam-packed summer for us.    We’ll need a vacation from the vacations when we are through with summer, lol.