Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Oshkosh, Wisconsin



Now that you have all freaked out over our last post (we have gotten many calls and a few brave people have posted a reply..we love getting posts)  I will tell you that Dave has not flipped out.  He is not going over the edge, he was planning to shave is hair short for the summer and decided to give himself and the kids something to laugh about and go with the hawk for a week.  It does get worse before it will get better...he now dyed it blonde (well actually I dyed it but it is kinda blonde with a Indian red tint).  Crazy!  

Well, we are now in Oshkosh, Wisconsin which is home of the largest air show in the world that just started yesterday.  We drove here from Ashland, Wisconsin.  If you ever have the chance to vacation along the shore of Lake Superior jump on it...it is beautiful!  Our campground was directly on the water and at night displayed one if the prettiest sunsets I have ever seen.  I posted a few pics!  The kids had a great time fishing.  This is actually a pretty funny story.  Peyton and Dave took a walk out on the pier (boat launching area
) and their was this 5 year old boy standing on the pier fishing.  He looked at Peyton and said, "do you want me to catch a fish for you?"  Peyton started to reply and the boy threw his line in the water and a few seconds later pulled it out with a fish on it.  Peyton was amazed and the boy yanked the fish off his line and threw it back in the water.  A few seconds later he caught another fish.  Well Peyton ran back to the RV to tell his brothers and grab his fishing pole.  They started fishing with Velveta cheese (that's all I had).  They did catch one with the cheese but when the boy gave them a home grown worm from his garden the fish jumped on the pole.  So I walked into town and bought the boys a bunch of worms.  Well, they caught fish left and right (they were very small fish, but the boys didn't really care).  So now all Peyton wants to do is fish.  He is going to be very disappointed when we go to the next fishing spot and the fish don't jump on his line every time he drops it into the water. We drove all morning till we arrived in Oshkosh.  We went to the store and bought groceries and then drove to where the planes were flying overhead.  We sat outside the RV and had a BBQ and watched the planes zip by.  It was pretty cool.  We also were parked across from the Goodyear Blimp.


Thought of the Day:  It is so funny how differently people look and treat us because of Dave's mohawk.  He is the same conservative person he was before the funky hair but people see him so differently.  It made me really think about how often we judge people on their outside appearance and not take the chance to see who they really are.