Summer Vacation 2008

Wow, three weeks away from home. With great anticipation the Cherry family took off on our annual summer vacation. This year we are going North.

Day 1: Left Austin around 9AM and arrived in Wichita, KS around 4:30PM at the Homewood Suites. (We like to stay here because they always seem to be fairly nice places, are suites and have free breakfast and evening reception.) We were upgraded to the family suite, two bedrooms, two baths. The boys each had their own bunk bed and they each slept on the top bed.

Day 2: Left Wichita around 8AM and arrived at Sioux Falls, SD sound 4PM.

Day 3: Left Sioux Falls around 8AM and stopped in Fargo to visit Lynn's Aunt and Uncle. These guys are involved in an amazing church in Fargo. I so loved listening to them and the great things they are doing. It sound like the church is really loving Fargo well and Lynn's Aunt and Uncle have found what they can do to extend that love. Beautiful.

We arrive in Bismarck around 6PM just in time for dinner. Lynn's whole family was already there (brother, sister and their families).

Day 4-10: We attended Lynn's school reunion, Shiloh Christian School, and met some great friends. I know it was great for Lynn to visit and see how far the school has come along since her graduation in 1987.

We had family pictures taken with the whole clan, had birthday parties, went to the local water park and the zoo. We had a great time while in Bismarck.

Day 11: Went to Medora, ND. Stopped in Dickinson to visit Lynn's grandmother and enjoyed lunch together. Lynn's folks came and joined us in Medora. Neat town. We went to the Medora musical located within a canyon there in the Badlands of North Dakota, really cool.

Day 12-15: Big Sky, Montana. Stayed in a cabin at 8000 ft. Amazing. Here we saw in such beauty God's majesty on display. Check out the photo from our cabin. We had a wonderful time in Montana, we went horseback riding in the mountains (something Lynn had always wanted to do), white water rafting, visited Yellowstone National Park, saw some wildlife and relaxed.

Day 16: On to Fort Collins, CO for the night.

Day 17-18: Amarillo, TX. Funny thing about Amarillo, it smells like a giant cow patty. If there was one place I wish had an indoor pool it was Amarillo. We decided to stay an additional day in Amarillo, not because of the smell, for Daniel's birthday. We went to a movie, Chuck E. Cheese's and birthday gift shopping for both Michael and Daniel. They had a great time.

Day 19: Arrive back in Austin (Round Rock). Very glad to be home.

As we reflect back on our journey, we had an incredible time. God was so good to us. We found favor and I trust we were able to share the love of Christ. Our boys were amazing, for driving nearly 4000 miles they were very patient, certainly a DVD player and Game Cube helps.

I look forward to next years road trip, I think it will be more tropical...