What a very busy summer The Musil family had. It started with my friend and former missionary Jessica coming to stay with us and ended with me vacationing in Utah. It was go, go, go the majority of the summer. The second set of visitors we had up here were my parents. The arrived Tuesday, July 2. The whole family (minus Nate who had to work) went to the airport to pick up my parents. I am so over joyed with having them come that I couldn't sleep very well the night before. After I picked up my parents we went downtown to get my parents something to eat because they were starving. We got them a reindeer sausage. It happened to be my first time trying them as well. They taste an awful lot like brats just in case you were wondering. Later on that night we went to one of my favorite places to eat Bear's Tooth. Which is just like Moose's Tooth only it isn't as busy and a lot easier to get into.
Because my parents traveled the day before and because we were going to be staying up so late tonight I decided that the best way to approach the next day would have it be a more relaxing day where we would worry more about getting things done during the day then actually going out. Well that kind of failed. First we hiked out to the mud flats. Which is a very easy stroll out to the ocean. Along the way we saw fresh bear scat but that didn't deter us from getting to our destination. We walked around the flats for about 40 minutes or so before we headed back. It was like a huge mosquito colony there and wasn't much fun to be in except we did get to see the beautiful ocean and all of the nature that surrounds it.
Later that afternoon we went to see World War Z in the theater which is such a good movie but also not one for kids so luckily I was able to leave Ella with a friend and go with the 3 older kids. It may of been a little to intense for Tyler. I know this because every time it would get a little more intense I would look over and he would be plugging his ears. I have known for years that Tyler doesn't like the intensity of music that goes along with movies. He liked the movie but looking back on it I don't think that I would of let him convince me that he should go.
After the movie we headed over to the church lawn to meet up with Ella and about 200 other folks (that is how many were on the church lawn there were well over 1,000 people there) for The Eagle River City fireworks show. Eagle River hold their firework show at 12:05 am on the 4th. So you actually get to enjoy the festivities of the 4th on the 3rd and the 4th of July. Nichole opted to stay home that night while the 3 other kids came with me. Nate met up with me after his school class. Ella helped sell lemonade. While Natalie and Tyler hung out with their various church friends.
My parents not being used to the cold had to get all bundled up for the 50 degree weather. While I looked around to see people playing outside without shoes or coats. I got to see a whole bunch of people that I know as well. One of my friends Erin came up to me and my parents to talk with us for a little bit. My mom just happened to be so bundled up in her jacket, coat, and a blanket that she fell asleep (plus you should take into account that Utah is 2 hours a head of Alaska so the fireworks that started at 12:05 to us really started at 2:05 am to them). Erin thought that my mom was playing on her phone. She talked to her for a minute and then said "Oh she's asleep. Oh no she is just playing on her phone." When I assured her that she was in fact asleep and not rudely ignoring her it made us all chuckle just for a bit. With all of this excitement going on who would of thought that someone could fall asleep.
The following morning we were disappointed to wake up to heavy rainfall. It did screw up our plans for the day. I had planned on us going out to Otter Lake and having a BBQ and then going paddle boating but the rain did not let up all day long. We did end up having a BBQ it was just inside of the house. We made all of the BBQ fixings and had a great time indoors. We played a Skipbo marathon which my dad agreed to play. This was the first time that he has actually agreed to play skipbo so that in and of itself is a small miracle.
The day didn't start how we had hoped but we did end up having a great time. It also gave us the opportunity to get ready for our first of many summer road trips.
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