Frankenmuth

This past weekend we were in Frankenmuth. Jon had a Rotary conference so the girls and I tagged along. We stayed at Zehnder's Splash Village which was really fun. Friday we got to the hotel and then had to be at dinner, which of course was at Zehnders. Family style chicken dinner...yum! Then we left a bit early so that Abby could go to the water park. She had a great time exploring and even went down the kiddie slide a few times. I sat with Audrey while Jon went with her. He said each time she went down she had a look of terror on her face. But then she would run up the steps to do it again!

Saturday Jon had meetings to go to in the morning so the girls and I walked over to Bronner's. Abby picked out Audrey's 1'st Christmas ornament and an ice cream cone ornament for herself. After lunch, we all went back to the water park for a few hours. Audrey had her first dip in the pool. At first she fussed but after a while she was ok.

Once Audrey had enough of the water, she took a nice long nap...

Saturday evening we did some shopping and then had dinner at the Bavarian Inn Lodge. Once again there was chicken but they also had other offerings, including a really good baked salmon. Then for entertainment they had the group Three Men and a Tenor. I had never seen them before and they were really good. Abby enjoyed dancing to the singing. Then, back to the pool Jon and Abby went before we had to check out in the morning.
Audrey reached a milestone on Saturday...she slept thru the night!!!!! 10pm til 8am!!! It was wonderful to get a full nights sleep without having to change a diaper or feed her! Of course, last night, she got up to eat, but at least we have one under our belt. Hopefully, there will be more of those wonderful nights soon!
Sunday morning, Nana and Big Bear joined us at the hotel and then we all went to St. Lorenz Lutheran church for service. I didn't realize the history of that church. 15 people started that church in the 1800's. After the service a gentleman from the church gave us a tour of their museum and a replica of the first log cabin church that the founders used. Its an amazing place and the people there were very nice and inviting. (I'll include some pictures below).
Then we went back to Zehnder's for Jon and Nana's birthday dinners. We had chicken dinner again but did the buffet so there were also other things to choose from. Abby was excited to see the Chicken and had her picture taken with him...

So that was our exciting weekend. It was actually a lot of fun and I would like to take Abby back to the water park again someday.
Here are some other pics...
Audrey in her ducky cover-up before going to the pool...look at that smile!

Abby playing in the water...


St. Lorenz Lutheran alter and stained glass windows...