9 August 2009 - Fun with the Fails Family

We did nothing all week but have fun every single day (oh, except for that I performed a wedding on Saturday, which wasn't as much fun). Other than that, the cousins had a blast all week long. On Monday, we spent the day at Idlewild Amusement Park.

We rode the Log Jammer...

...the Wild Mouse...

...and the Spider, among other things. We also spent several hours at Soak Zone, the water slides inside the park.

On Tuesday we drove to Cleveland, OH for the night, and Karl and I scratched one more Major League Baseball stadium off the list. We watch the Indians and Twins play at Progressive (née Jacobs) Field.

The next day was spent in Kirtland, visiting church history sites in the area and enjoying the scenery. Our first stop was historic Kirtland. This is our whole group in front of the Newell K. Whitney store, which houses the School of the Prophets.

Then we went to the Morley Farm, which has its own little version of the Sacred Grove.

After that, we toured the Kirtland Temple.

And we ended our day at the Johnson Farm about thirty miles south of Kirtland.

For the latter part of the week, we stayed closer to home. We had a birthday party for Aunt Jolene...

...and one (a little early) for Jessica.

We played golf. This is Kurt taking a turn with the putter.
And we ate snow cones at the Pony League World Series, which is held each August in Washington, PA.

When we couldn't watch baseball anymore, we played water balloon baseball in the yard to beat the heat.

When Sunday rolled around, we were certainly tired, but still sad to see Karl and Jolene and our cousins have to head home after a week of fun.

We're enjoying our summer as it begins to wind to a close, and hope you are too.

Matt