Mini Vacation, No Diamonds and StInKy cabin!!

We had soo much fun on our first "mini" vacation with the boys. The boys were perfect (our dvd player in the car is priceless:). Andrew and Parker had the best time at the diamond mine. They weren't very helpful in our search for finding the diamond. Andrew dug some at the beginning, Parker threw rocks most of the time and then Andrew built some big rock towers:) Cam immediately got excited when he saw something shimmer but we soon realized that place was full of itty bitty pieces of shimmer.
We also went to a couple of parks while we were gone. It was so nice to not have an agenda and just do whatever we thought everyone would enjoy....
OKAY, now for the part of the trip where we got ripped off. Our cabin was not too expensive ($70) and we thought it was definitely worth it for us to not have to drive there and back in one day (6 hours). I knew we were in trouble when Andrew (who went into the cabin before me) came out and said, "What's that smell?? It stinks in here!!" Boy was he right... we anticipated that it might be smelly so we thought we'd take some candles but we forgot. So... we stopped and picked a couple up at a dollar store. Why are we so cheap? We could've cooked those candles in a sauce pan and you would've never smelled them!! The stinch was a combination of funk, dog and smoke. I literally couldn't sleep. Then I got the giggles at about 4:00 am because it smelled so bad and was so afraid I was going to wake up the boys. Cam, against his will, got the giggles, too.
All in all it was definitely a great trip!! It's something we and the boys will remember for a long time!!