Families who play together really do stay together. Play, fun, laughter, and the creation of lifelong memories are essential for keeping your relationship with your adult kids strong.. Play is a "love currency" that makes a deposit into your children's lives no matter what their age.
~Jim Burns, "Doing Life With Your Adult Children"
We began Olivia's birthday celebrations by stopping at Rock N Java for coffee and a lovely view on our way up to meet the rest of the crew.
Sarah, Benjamin, and Hannah arrived at the Air BnB shortly after we did, and they were toting an incredible birthday cake made by the one and only Sarah Choate.
Olivia's birthday request was to attend Opera in the Ozarks again.
We've made some sweet memories here before, and we built on that foundation.
The next morning, we got a call from Kings River Outfitters
to let us know that the rain was cancelling all of the float reservations for that day.
So we stayed in and played lots of games, including "One Night Ultimate Daybreak". Which wasn't my favorite, but the rest of the family loved it.
We went back to Opera in the Ozarks for a second night and thoroughly enjoyed their performance of Cendrillon. It was musically excellent and absolutely hilarious.
Saturday morning dawned cloudy, but a quick call confirmed that we could get on the river that day, so we checked out and loaded up our picnic lunches.
The sky kept getting darker, but we paddled and laughed and didn't have to worry about sunburn.
However, about halfway through our float, the heavens began to dump buckets of rain, so we paddled as quickly as we could while making lots of memories together. These are definitely my favorite people to play with!
No comments:
Post a Comment