a holiday weekend away
The girls and i traveled to visit my mom over the 4th of July weekend. We made a couple of trips to the river to walk through the Sinnissippi gardens and feed the ducks at the lagoon where we used to play hockey as kids.
On Friday, we saw a really good fireworks show in Cherry Valley, where i found out that Cherry Valley is an actual charming little village and not just where there’s a shopping mall (as i’d assumed as a teen).
On Saturday afternoon visited the Anderson Japanese Garden, an absolutely beautiful garden less than 2 miles from my mom’s place. It was the first time we’d been there, and i really loved it.
John and Lorie came in from Chicago with their new hunting dog Bocephus, who has ears like a bat.
And we played lots of badminton
and Gnip Gnop
and chased the wind-up airplane
The full photo set is here.
Gnip Gnop, rock on! We had that game when I was a kid.