When the Mom’s Away

Our day started with dropping Mom off at the airport to go see baby Ashima and friends – Henry would spend the rest of the day identifying planes (and a helicopter) as likely being the one that mumma’s on.

From there, we were off to Devil’s Lake.  It was an absolutely gorgeous day to be there – low 60s & sunny.  Some nice fall color showing, although from the looks of things the best is still yet to come over the next weekend or two.  We got ambitious and left the lake-level paths for something a bit more challenging: the West-side bluff.  It was fairly high risk as I was almost assuming that at some point I’d have Tess in the backpack while carrying Henry but he was a total champ.  No complaints the whole time — trucked right up those rocks all the way to the top and still had energy at the end (of course) to walk the railroad tracks!  At the start of the trail there was a “Lost Dog” sign, so the whole hike was basically a rescue effort in his eyes.  He made sure I questioned every person we passed to ensure they were also on the lookout.  In the end we decided that the guy we saw with 2 walking sticks (ski poles – whatever they call those things) had probably located & returned the dog already.  Tess did a great job too and didn’t really fuss much about being stuck into the pack until we were almost back to the beach.

In the afternoon we hit up the Sun Prairie Dream Park (which apparently is a Freshman hangout after school??).  The park was a hit but my favorite part was the leaf pile.

… and, of course, when you’re in a foreign country you don’t order the hamburger, right?  So, I figured I’d whip something up that the kids don’t normally get when their Mom’s around: hotdogs in the macaroni!

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