our trip up North

We had the most wonderful time visiting with Andrew's family in Winnipeg last week.  What a wonderful town Winnipeg is.  We enjoyed the newly renovated Children's Museum, loved the zoo and all the animal babies, and explored Fort Whyte.  The new park is incredible!  There was so much to do, and we loved sharing every minute of it with our Winnipeg Windsors! :)  Nora and Xander had such a great time playing with their cousins and spending time with Aunt Dorcas, Uncle Kirk, Aunt Sam, and Uncle Dave that Nora even cried when we left.  Thanks, again, guys for such a wonderful visit.  Here are lots of pictures from our trip.  I know it seems like a lot of pictures, but we took almost 400...it was hard to narrow it down.  I was very sad to see that I didn't get one picture of Sam and Dave with their kids.  Sam, I will definitely get one the next time we see you guys...and I hope that is soon!

Jack showing Xander one of the exhibits at the Children's Museum

Andrew and Xander at the museum 

 Nora and Anna scooping rocks with the excavator at the museum

Dorcas and Kirk showing Andrew pictures

 Nora with a peacock at the zoo

 me and the kiddos at the zoo in the new bird exhibit

 at the zoo...yes, they have Starbucks

Those adorable kiddos in Sam's awesome wagon

Nora and sweet Emma at the incredible new park.

that's a decorated frog wearing a tutu and playing an instrument behind the girls

more cool things to do at the park

taking advantage of some awesome slides

 posing with Aunt Dorcas (our fabulous tour guide!)

 another cool park "statue"

 Xander REALLY enjoyed getting to know Jack

they bonded over Hot Wheels

 Nora, Jack, and Anna

 all the kiddos,

doing crafts and watching a movie and having a snack...you know, just hanging out, cousin style

 kicking it with Uncle Kirk

 uh oh

lots of stuffed friends at Fort Whyte

(the kids were HUGE fans)

 howling

 hiking at Fort Whyte

 it was a beautiful day at Fort Whyte

checking out the sod house

 Andrew and Uncle Dave (or cousin Dave)

 getting an organ lesson from Aunt Dorcas

 grabbing some dinner on the way back to Minnesota

being silly in the hotel