Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Our Wisconsin Trip - May 2009

We just returned from a wonderful vacation with
grandma and grandpa Przybyla. It was so nice to
spend a week with them.........just hope we didn't
wear them out and wish we could do it again......we
will forever cherish our memories of this great trip.
They were real troopers all the way!
There is no way I can post all of the fun pictures or tell
you everything we did........but here is a small portion of
our Wisconsin Trip!
Dody, Darlene and Maxine
We all agree on one thing about this fun outing.........and
that is that the best part was spending time with our
newly found "Wisconsin Sisters"! They are for sure
3 of the nicest people we have ever met and to think
they are family!
We thank them from the bottom of our hearts for
our wonderful, relaxing, peaceful, fun days on the
lake in New Auburn.

This a picture of the three cottages at
Max's Resort. We stayed in the one on the left, which is the
largest of the three. It was very cute, comfortable and clean. We
really enjoyed the amazing view of the lake from our window!
We sure enjoyed the boat ride they treated us to around the lake.
We were surprised how big the lake actually is and had fun
taking in all of the interesting sights!
You can tell from this picture that Helmut really enjoyed
visiting and get better acquainted with our wonderful
"Wisconsin Sisters". They really treated us like royalty
the whole time we stayed there.
On Sunday we went to church hoping so see someone
Helmut would recognize from his mission 41 years ago.
That didn't happen, but everyone was so friendly and
sure tried to remember who he was......so funny...........
he may look a bit different than he did in 1968! Ya think?!
This is the building the ward met in when Helmut was
serving in Eau Claire as a missionary. Since then they
sold it to another church and have built a much larger church.
Time marches on............
This is my favorite picture from the trip.
None of the homes my dad lived in as a child in
West Allis were still there and everything had
changed. But, this a corner that he stood on
to sell newspapers back then and the same
building is still standing there. It was a
"hamburger joint" back when..........we were
so excited to find an original building that I
didn't even notice what it is now!




Milwuakee Fun!

Here are pictures from just a few of the things we did in
Milwuakee.........This first picture is from the Public Market.
It was not very big, but it was nice. The candy, ice cream
and baked goods all looked so yummy! Too bad we weren't
hungry after a whole week of "pigging-out".


We took a boat tour of Milwuakee and this is picture of

grandma & grandpa by the river before we got on the boat.

The ride was so relaxing and we got a great tour of the city

from the water.

One of the things that my dad wanted to see was the
"Greenfield Golf Course". It was one of the
places he sold newspapers when he was a kid. To our
surprise it was still there. It looked like a
very nice golf course.

He also had some pretty funny memories of a
"really steep" alley near one of the homes their
family lived in when they were in West Allis.
This is a picture of it........we all got a tickle out
of how steep it wasn't...........funny how we remember
things from our childhood.

We spent quite a bit of time looking for the cemeteries
where dad's grandparents and uncle were
buried. We found all three of them and this is a picture
taken by the tombstone of his grand-
father, Jan Przybyla.