Indigo Girls

Friends, I am not a big concert person.  At all.  There are VERY FEW bands out there that I would want to give up a quiet night at home, or sleep, to see.  And then there are even fewer bands that I want to see live rather than just spend money on buying their music to hear forever.  BUT.  The Indigo Girls pass that test with flying colors.  :)

Last night Renee, Emily (friend from book club) and I went to see the Indigo Girls at Music in the Zoo (MN Zoo amphitheater). It was so, so delightful.  The weather was perfect, which is a small miracle in and of itself in MN in August, right?  Perfect temp, no bugs...whaaaat?  Then right before the show started a bunch of geese did a fly-over in a v-formation.  It was so MN.

The girls did not disappoint.  They sang almost all of my faves, and the ones that I didn't know as much/were newer were more interesting to me live than on the radio, where I'm always saying "Alexa, skip!" to get back to my older favorites...haha.  Emily has some guitar skills, that's for sure.

I'm not sure if this video will work, but it's of Galileo, and you can hear me singing in the background, totally out of tune...but whatever...it was so much fun.

Hooray for one concert every 5 years!  ;)

I have to tell you, one of the first songs they played...maybe the second?..was Power of Two.  I totally teared up when the started playing, and I don't even know WHY...haha!  So many good memories with their music.  :)

Mom winning.

I follow a preschool on Instagram called "Peter Pan and Little Seeds," or something like that.  They do all sorts of amazing sensory things with kids that I know my kids would LOVE to do, but often they require things I just never have on hand.  When I saw this hot lava and dinosaurs experiment I for sure knew I had everything they had/needed, except for the fake trees and fake volcano.  Ah, welp.  Good enough!

If I save ideas like this until I *have time* I never do it, so we did it RIGHT AWAY and they loved it.

Bayfield with the Gustafsons 2017

We had a bit of an "interesting" time getting UP to Bayfield this time, but once we finally got there we had an awesome time with the Gustafsons, as usual.  We knew the weather was going to be raining on Saturday and Sunday, so we spent all day Friday outside in the perfect weather.  

As soon as he got up on Friday morning Finn was in the hot tub.
He LOVES them.  Me?  I can only stand about 25 seconds of them before I want to die.

The view from the deck.  Lake Superior in the distance, the kids picking wild flowers in the grass area in front.  

The jenga blocks were the toy of choice this weekend, but not for playing jenga ever...

The Houghton Falls hike in the woods to the lake is a family favorite forever.  Finn remembered "Dinosaur Land" as soon as we got there, and he kept finding "clues" everywhere.  And mushrooms.  So many mushrooms.  :)

See Finn in the background there?  He's pretty darn good at climbing, guys.  Really balanced.  And TOTALLY confident in his abilities.  Haha.  

I wish every walk in the woods looked like this.

No big deal.  Nothing to see here, Grandma.  Look away, look away.
(Jonas handing Cora down to Dave below)

Discoveries EVERYWHERE.

The end goal!  We made it!

After we left Houghton Falls we headed to the beach.  If you can't tell, it was a PERFECT day.

I love this series of photos (Dave showing Finn how to make a drip sand castle) mostly because of Cora and Adelade being dramatic in the background....

Her cute little pony tail and suit.  Sigh.  She is likely the last of 5 girls to wear this swim suit...they have just gotten too stretched out I think.  

Finn becoming a mermaid...

Snacking on the beach.

Back in the hot tub after the beach!

Where the adults ate dinner on Friday night.  YES.

Rachel and I went to Bayfield on rainy Saturday to get a coffee at a cute shop and look around the book shop and artist stores.

Look what I found in a cute pottery place in Bayfield!  Small world, eh? :)

After we had checked out of the cabin for our stay up there we went to the Fish Hatchery just down the road.  Because:  MN.

Finn refused to look at me.  He for sure wanted this to be his picture.  He is dedicated to the craft, guys.