the Klimek Chronicles

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Our Dells Adventure--Day One (Continued)

As I am playing catch-up with my blogging, I am still working on the first day we were at Wisconsin Dells! As you may remember from previous posts, our morning began with our BigFoot Zipline Tour.
http://klimekchronicles.blogspot.com/2010/09/klimeks-meet-bigfoot-alternately-titled.html

Before we went on our Zip tour, the kids checked out this old army medical helicopter that was parked outside of the Original Dells Army Ducks where we did our BigFoot Zipline Tour...

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Tough Guys in the Steel Bird...

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After our big Zipline adventure, we embarked on yet another adventure on the

WILDTHING!

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The WILDTHING is a 1200 HP jet-powered speedboat, guaranteed to make you hang on tight and bring you back to the dock soaking wet!

Abz and Jamie getting ready to enjoy the ride...

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The WILDTHING put us through a series of unexpected power stops and wild 360's and left us dripping wet and laughing like crazy!

http://www.dellsducks.com/wildthing.html
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After all of that fun, we were hungry and ready to eat. We drove up and down Wisconsin Dells Parkway, eyeing up our many options. We finally decided on Crabby's -- who advertised their $9.99 all you can eat buffet and crab legs.

Well, to make a long story short (you're welcome), the advertising was a bit of false advertising to lure people in for a less-than-desirable buffet with cold crab legs at a trumped-up price.
Needless to say, this restaurant lived up to its name and left Jamie very
CRABBY!!!

http://www.dellscrabbys.com/
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Our evening of fun didn't end at Crabby's door! Our next stop was
"Top Secret"...

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Top Secret had captured Abby's eye several times as we had driven by throughout the day. It is a model of the White House, but turned completely upside down! The reason for the upheaval of the condition of the White House is, of course, Top Secret!

Interestingly, outside the disheveled White House, there are two life-sized presidential photo cut-outs. The following two U.S. Presidents are represented standing outside the White House that has been literally turned upside down...

and...

...coincidence?

I think not!
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The three Klimies posed by/on a car that suffered the after-effects of the White House's fate...

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Abz and I proceeded to purchase our tickets and enter the over-turned White House for a tour and to hopefully discover the Top Secrets of our government...

All of the rooms and offices had the floors on what were perceived as our ceilings!

Here is George Washington sitting at the desk in the Oval Office above our heads...

(Please disregard the fact that there WAS no Oval Office when George Washington was in office, that there were no phones (see red phone on desk), and there was no electricity (for the lamp on the desk) back when George was around!)

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The Presidential Seal on the "floor" of the Oval Office which was above our heads...

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The dining room suspended from the ceiling...

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The Green Room...

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Then, our guide took us deeper into the recesses of the damaged White House.

There, we saw evidence that the Government is hiding knowledge of Alien Existence!!!!

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Further into the catacombs, we came across this psychotic woman, being hidden from society because of her insane ramblings--

does she bear any resemblance to Hillary?

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Further still, and we were exposed to the live evidence that, yes! Aliens DO exist and they are being housed in the White House!

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More horrors were revealed when we discovered this vicious creature in the bowels of the White House!

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And our nightmares came to life when we stumbled onto this monster...

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But the biggest horror of all was around the last corner. The discovery of the hidden treasure trove. Wherever did our government come by these riches? They appeared to come from foreign lands! You make your own conclusions...

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I can say that after taking this Top Secret Tour, the objectives of our administration all make sense now, and I fully understand the meaning behind all Executive Decisions.

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Before we left the White House "grounds", Jamie and I stopped to tell the Big Man how we feel about the current administration and several of the decisions that have been made...

A light caress of the jawline...

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Jamie "stickin' it to the man"!

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http://www.dellstopsecret.com/index.htm

...And then we were off for our next Dells Adventure, Day One!

Friday, September 3, 2010

September 2, 2010--First Day of School

The 2010 - 2011 school year has officially started for the Klimie Kids. Thursday was their first full day of school. As I had to work on Thursday, Dad was in charge of getting everyone up and back into the morning routine. Dad was also in charge of the "First Day of School Foto"!

The excitement is just bubbling over and out of the picture, don't you think??

(a little note: the boys are wearing their personalized "Jordan" shirts they recently got in the Dells. Andrew's says "Kleezy", and Austin's says "Craiigerz"--gangsta.)
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After school, Abz had her first Cross Country meet of the season in Spooner. She had a fabulous run and placed first for the Barron Team!

(Bailey, Abby, and Ahna)
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The boys had a soccer game in Cumberland after school. Cumberland beat us just two weeks ago, and, as far back as we can remember, Cumberland has always won when our two teams meet on the soccer field...

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Here is Andrew working through the defense....~~~
Andrew moving toward his shot on goal...~~~
Andrew and Eric (my co-worker's son) battling for possession...~~~~~~

Austin anticipating the header while Andrew blocks the defense on a corner kick...

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Austin powering the ball out of the corner...~~~

Austin "bulling" through the defenders... ~~~
The final score was Barron: 1, Cumberland: 0!

The BHS Boys finally broke Cumberland's winning streak where Barron was concerned! The lone goal of the game was captured being scored in the very blurry picture below...Yep! That's Austin, driving the ball home to score a goal!
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BHS is now 3 and 3 for an overall record.

(Austin has scored 2 goals and Andrew has scored 1 goal for the season!)
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GO BEARS!
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{more soccer pics can be viewed at:}

http://shanassportsshots.blogspot.com/

BigFoot Strikes Again--Pirated Photos!

One more post about the BigFoot Ziplines!

(See previous post if you don't know what I am referring to!)

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I finally found our "professional" pictures online of our adventure. I have pirated them to share on my blog--ENJOY!

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This is a picture of our whole group that was with us during the "Three-Hour Tour"...

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We will start off with pictures of Abz...

Here she is, hanging upside down! Every time she hung upside down, she kept her body curled in a ball--thus living up to her name of "ABZ" as she showed off her tight Abdominal muscles!

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Abby again...

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Abby nearing the end of the line... LOOK OUT FOR THAT BEAR!

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Andrew is the next Klimie to zip down the wire.
Here he is "relaxing" in his harness!

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Andrew makin' it look easy...

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Andrew coming in for a landing--OH, NO!! THAT BEAR IS STILL THERE!!

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Austin is the next Klimie to skim through the trees...
He loved hanging upside down!

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You can reach speeds of up to 40 MPH on these lines...

I think Austin probably came extremely close!

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Enjoyin' the ride!

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Jamie swung from the line like a monkey!

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He looked like a professional...

(Do you see the bear lurking below him?!)

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Jamie getting ready to break as he comes into the tower...

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And here's the proof that I, too, hung upside down hundreds of feet in the air...

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Guess it's a good warm-up for the sky-diving the boys have in mind for me for our next adventure!

(When they are both 18, that is!)

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And that was our Zipline Tour in Review!

The Klimeks Meet BigFoot! {Alternately Titled: The Dells: Day One}

We took a end-of-summer vacation to Wisconsin Dells last weekend for a "last hurrah" before school started and we had to say goodbye to summer. Our mini-vacation started early Friday morning when we left the house bright and early to get to the Dells for our 11 am departure on the BigFoot Ziplines!

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Jamie and the kids are all geared-up and ready to go!

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Here is me and the kids--all harnessed up. I was scared to death and the rest of the family was excited and couldn't wait to hit the ziplines!

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This is a map of the lines...

We did six lines and it took a total of about 3 hours. Through the trees, over water--it was breathtaking!

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Abz had a blast riding the lines...

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Andrew coming in fast to the end, where Peter, one of our tour guides, waits to "catch" him.

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Austin had no fear flying over the water!

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Jamie was the official photographer during our excursion. He had a blast watching everyone zoom down the lines! He also had fun on the lines himself--taking running jumps, falling off the tower backwards, and hanging from the line upside down!
(Which, by the way, we ALL did those "tricks"--yep! Even Abz and I!)

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Here is Austin flipping upside down while on the line!

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This is Andrew hanging upside down in mid-air!

(Clicking on the picture will enlarge it a bit--we couldn't bring our "good" camera on the lines, so we used our old digital and our camera phones...)

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Abz hanging in the middle of nowhere!

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The Klimie Kids on top of one of the towers...

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And here is me--Shana--hanging over the water...

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The last run was a dual run, so two people were able to race! Generally, the heavier of the two would win the race (physics, you know!), and our family proved that to be true...

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Jamie and Abz race to the finish line...