Last week of Summer

Mark goes back to school for New Teacher Orientation next week.  He is not a new teacher, he was just asked to do some training for the new teachers (because he is a rock star at his school now which is great and maybe a little bit more time consuming). Therefore this week is our last full week of summer vacation with him.  It's strange because once school starts I feel like it should be Fall but there is still all of August which is most definitely a summer month so really its not close to Fall (although you wouldn't know it if you walked into Hobby Lobby). But it is getting closer and I am excited.  Anyway.
We are trying to fit in the last of our summer to do items and one was a trip to Greeley. In my opinion Colorado Springs is not a super fun place for families.  It's a large city but doesn't have many of the perks that actually come with a big city. Greeley on the other hand does. It has amazing parks and really fun splash parks. Greeley also has our friend Bethany who we met in Egypt.  So we drove up Monday to visit Bethany and a spalsh park.
This was an indoor splash park and man was their water heated.  It was almost warmer then a bath.  Jared and Lydia loved it, of course. We played around and then met Bethany for lunch and had a great visit with her. We loved hanging out with Bethany in Egypt and wish we could see her more. She is just a nice fun girl.

Greeley is 2 hours away so we decided to have an impromptu picnic at the park for dinner since we would be getting back later and would be late starting dinner.  We stopped by the grocery store and grabbed some fried chicken and fruit and headed over to a park. The weather this week has been amazing!  72 degrees with a nice breeze, it also made it feel like Fall was coming.  Our picnic idea was well received and we topped it off with ice cream sandwiches for our FHE treat while we were there.  If only each summer day could be 75 or cooler.