Lake Joy

So we decided to go to a lake today.  We haven't been to any of the lakes up here and had heard lots of good things about Lake Joy, so we decided to try it out!  Well and it's named after me, so yeah we gotta check it out!  Haha.  Well, and I know I'm gonna offend some fellow Wisconsinites, but that was the lamest lake ever.  Seriously we were sooo disappointed!  There was barely ANY "beach", no parking, way to many people, and it was pretty pricey.  We were determined to have a good time anyway though!  We stayed for almost two hours and the older kids got some good swimming in.  The saving grace was this lake has a slide IN the water.  I will admit that was pretty cool, and the kids LOVED it!  I do have to admit though that the saying everything is bigger and better in Texas certainly rang true today!

Before we left, I ran to Dubuque to get some Old Navy $1 flip flops!!  and ended up getting some sunglasses for the kids while I was there :)  The kids were SUPPER excited about their new glasses and flip flops, and then promptly fell asleep in the van.  Haha, they were up late last night at the fireworks.

We staked out the very corner of the beach, here's a couple pictures