We took Stella and Nova, our nieces, and Addie and Violet to Splash Universe. We stayed in the Amish Country Inn.....there were no amish there. For those of you who don't know what Amish are, they were homemade clothes and bonnets and ride in a horse and buggy and don't use electricity. They live right here in Leo and Grabill. Anyways, they live in Shipshewana, too and that is where we were at Splash Universe. It was soooo much fun. We only stayed one night but had two whole days to swim. It was sort of like a cruise ship for kids. Icecream, pizza, puppet show, magic show, story time, popcorn and of course the water park. Even Kevin and I loved it.
Our woodstove hearth. Now we have a Fisher freestanding woodstove there. We don't use our furnace at all, in fact the woodstove makes it too hot inside!
The finished eastern white pine rustic floor. My dad and I installed it. We glued it to the floor, it was literally back breaking work. I remember having blisters on my hand from troweling the glue on the floor, and I wondered wether or not to tell my dad (because most likely he would say, "so") but I told him and he said, "I do too"!
Me putting the one and only coat of "gingerbread" stain on. I brushed it on and then rubbed it off with rags. It took me 8 hours one day, I swore I would never do that again! We love our new home and our awesome floor.
