Hess has the cheapest gas

Day 3 of vacation has come and gone...... Today we bypassed three gas stations to get to the Hess station that Eric insisted had the cheapest gas around. The "low gas" beep had already sounded...... When we made it to the Hess we found that every single pump was closed so we had to turn around and go back to another gas station. I know what you readers are thinking.....that's it? Where's the excitement of the day? Where is the drama? Well, we then ran out of gas and had to walk fifteen miles to (7.5 ther and back) to get the gas into the tank......... Gotcha..... We actually had a very relaxing day after we bought gas.... Lunch at the Chinese restaurant (perhaps the strangest lunch ever), a trip to the yarn store (to get my supplies for my next two projects) then four hours at the lake. The wind was blowing and a young girl's raft was floating away.... The lifeguard didn't want to go after it so the mother of the girl had risk her life to go after it.....okay,no life risking but still kind of amusing to witness as just as the mom would get close to then raft, a wrong breeze would push it farther away. She got enough exercise for the week.

Isa got a new inner tube (and perhaps the above story would be more entertaining to my audience if the raft adrift was Isabel's and I was the mother risking her life in the rapids but alas this was not the case.....anyone who knows me knows that I am not really a good swimmer) and wanted desperately to swim without assistance. By the end of the afternoon she was getting quite brave and was wading out to where the water was up to her chest with Mommy beside her but not touching her. We spent quite a bit of time playing with our new sand machine that Daddy bought today after the trip to the Hess.

Tonight I started knitting my socks........ Tomorrow off to Stowe, Vermont to see where the Von Trapps live. We are planning a horse drawn carriage ride!!!!!!