Zip Lining, River Rafting and Other Adventures

The first week of August M began his one month non compete leave and being the planners that we.. I am, we had a certain set expectations of what this month was to be.. we wanted to have fun, we wanted to relax, we wanted to get back on top of things with our list of never ending errands, we wanted to spend some time with family.. we wanted to spend some time without the kids.. just us.. we needed some adult time.. and now weeks after M has gone back to work and we are back to our regular routines I can look back and saw that we had a kick ass month that lived up to everything we had hoped to get out of it and more!

We kicked it off with a trip to the Poconos with my brother and sister in law, leaving the kids at home with grandparents. I signed us up for a Zip Lining 3 Hour Adventure Course at the Skytop Lodge in the Poconos. This was the first time any of us had zip lined and it was awesome.. the course itself was crazy awesome.. there was four levels of obstacles.. perfect way to start the month.. now some horrible seriously unflattering pictures.. because it is not easy to take pictures nor recommended while 50ft up in the air trying to balance your self on a dangling rope, spinning log and swinging planks.. crazy I tell you!!

A few days later we joined some 50 or more friends to celebrate a fellow friend's birthday with a family friendly day on the water. H was too little so he spent the day at home with his grand parents while M, D and I headed back up to the Poconos for some river rafting..

Our last adventure was a trip to Six Flags.. the old man and I haven't been on this many roller coasters in one day in a long time.. with kids you get more used to the tea cups etc.. and sometimes when we have parents with us we may squeeze in a more thrilling ride here or there.. but 9 in a day.. I can not remember the last time.. We left the kids with the grandparents.. thank god for awesome grandparents and hit the park with my brother and sister in law.

It was thrilling, stomach churning fun.. so much so that I dropped my phone on one the rides.. and not just any ride.. the insane Kingda Ka.. it reaches the height of 456 feet and you can not pay me to get back on that thing.. well maybe you can but you get the idea. And as if that wasn't bad enough M had to run off the 8th ride the moment it ended to throw up!

And with that our adventures came to an end.. this August ranks pretty high up, may just be one of the best August's ever.. next August has some tough competition.

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