We just spent our first of a few weeks at Gozzer in Couer d'Alene. We started going 6 years ago and it has officially become our favorite place. It is so family friendly, with everything from kids camp to amazing sports courts, pools, golf, such amazing snack shacks they are actually called "comfort stations", and best of all the lake! We spend our days playing in the sun either at Gozzer Bay where there is every water toy you can imagine including a big water slide, the beach for the little ones, fishing for the big and little, and jet skis...or at the pool that is surrounded by a play structure and sport courts. The kids go hard all day and crash hard at night! We went with Aaron, Lace, Caleb, Addie and Tristan and my parents. The cousins have so much fun playing together (most of the time!) and we have lots of laughs throughout the week! This is the first year that I actually played golf on this amazing course which was so fun...and as I mentioned the huckleberries...they are everywhere! In the comfort stations on the gofl course they have huckleberry ice cream, popsicles, syrup, jam, candy...you name it and it is SO good! It left me wondering why we don't see more huckleberry here...I mean what do they only grow in Idaho?! We rent the Gozzer boat for a few hours that comes with a driver and an instructor (that happens to be a professional in water sports). These guys are so great, they teach the kids to wake board, wake surf...go as far as get in the water with them to help them get up or in our case go WITH our kids! Matt took Jalen on the surf board to try some wake surfing and Jalen had the biggest smile the whole time! I think Matt's legs got tired before Jalen did...he would have stayed out there all day! And AJ who is a professional wake boarder took Lily to ride doubles on the wake board and then helped her get up on her own after. He also gave us a little show with all the tricks...flips and turns and all...it was impressive! Jamie, Aaron, and Calen all did some wake surfing and Ellie rocked it with the wake board...she got up and stayed up for a long ride! We ended with Lace and I doing the tube, then Jamie always gets on and lets them try and knock him off which has us all in tears laughing. Although this year Caleb gets the crazy tubing award...he got flipped 15 feet in the air...and held on! It was a little scary for all us moms...especially his...but once we knew he was okay that's all anyone could talk about.
Aaron took all the kids fishing and Ellie, Lily and Jalen all caught their own fish! They are lucky they have such a cool uncle because mommy doesn't like to look at let alone touch the slimy fish!
This year they had the "Pirates of Couer d'Alene that we took the kids on. It was on a big party cruiser and they went out onto the lake and did a whole show up on the top deck. The girls loved it, Jalen was a little scared in parts (when they were sword fighting...he didn't get that it was just pretend!) but they got fun little gift bags at the end with bandanas, eye patches, necklaces and gold coins so that cheered him up.
We wish we could spend the whole summer up there...but we are back for now (after a 7 hours drive...the only downside!) We are looking forward to going back in a couple weeks to end out our summer on the lake!
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