Lusterville Vacation

Lusterville vacation 2012 has been wonderful! Don took off an entire month this time instead of his normal 2 weeks. It has been so much fun hanging out with him and having him home every day. I am going to be sad when he has to go back to the "real" army world of work :( We took the kids to Busch gardens where we got stuck at the top of a roller coaster. DaniKay was very upset and scared. Of course being the good father and brother of Lusterville they both made fun of Dani and gave her lots of grief :) The next day we went to New York and New Jersey. Well that was an adventure! I do believe that the drivers of the city honk their horns to just hear the honk. I hated driving in New York! We did have a great time there and saw some beautiful buildings. I enjoyed one of the local cemeteries. They had beautiful scenery and some of the tombstones dated back to 1740, talk about history! We saw the Statue of Liberty and also went to where the Twin Towers were. The next day we went to Hershey, PA. We made our own Hershey bars and had some amazing chocolate covered strawberries and huge cupcakes! After Hershey we headed to Birmingham. Birmingham is where the loves of my life live. My baby sister, her two kids, and her hubby all reside in Birmingham. I love going to visit them! This was the first time that Don had ever met O, who is 2 1/2 and the first time he had spent more than a day with MsKelly, who is 6. Don had an amazing time hanging out with everyone. After a couple days we left to head back home. Dakotah stayed with Aunt Ju so that he could go to Honduras with her and Paul. He is going to have an amazing time hanging out with them for 2 weeks :) MsKelly and O came home with Lusterville! We are so excited to have them with us. We are going to do so many things with them before we return them to their parents. :)