After baby Nicholas was christened, we started our vacation in earnest at the Amana Colonies' Holiday Inn in Amana, Iowa. Here's a picture of my baby brother exploring the hotel. To start the trip, he stole our next door neighbor's phone (fortunately it was Uncle Doug and Aunt Serena).
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Here's a picture that Daddy took of me on the playground out front of the hotel. It was lots of fun. Cameron played with rocks.
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The next morning, we got up and went to see the Amana Colonies. In one of the Amana's (I forget which one), we went to see a barn museum. It had lots of little barns inside a big barn.
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Here's a picture of all of us kids on the bench at the barn museum. I'm on the end.
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Here's another funny picture of me and my brother, "horsing around."
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And then in the next Amana down the line, here's a picture of my and my baby brother in a really, really big rocking chair. We couldn't trust him to sit still, so that's my Uncle Jayson's arm holding him in place.
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Here's another one of the whole family.
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Out in front of the broom shop, there was a tractor for us kids to climb on. Here's Cameron taking me for a ride in the tractor. He's a crazy driver.
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Here he is again, slightly mellowed out.
After the tractor incident, we had a big lunch at a place where they just kept bringing us food! We also spent a lot of time at the water park in our hotel,
Wasserbahn! It was a lot of fun.
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Later than night, he turned into a T-rex while all of the kids were gathered in Grandma and Grandpa's room to watch a movie and all of the adults watched a different movie in the other room.
On Wednesday, we all headed to Des Moines....
Love,
Ben