The Geerdts Family Blog
We went indoor skydiving today at our nearest iFly. This was a new experience for Trevor, Calvin, and Jen. Dan had done this once before as a work team building event. If you don’t know what this is, you basically go inside a vertical wind tunnel and “skydive” by having the speed controlled wind blow …
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Calvin and Dan went to Cars and Coffee today, and we brought Dan’s car this time. There seemed to be more people and less cars this month (compared to August), but it was still a lot of fun. Here are some pictures of our car, and a few unique cars that caught our eyes. We …
Read More Cars and Coffee – September 2019
Calvin and Dan went to our first Cars and Coffee car show, in our very own home town. We didn’t really know what to expect, and we decided to bring Jen’s new electric car to the show. We paid a small donation to be able to park with all the other show cars. We had …
Read More Cars and Coffee – August 2019
Today was the annual Knickerbocker Ice Festival on the other side of the lake. Jen and Dan snowshoed across the frozen lake to the Icehenge. The Icehenge is a “monument” built from ice blocks cut out of the lake. It looks really cool in the sunlight, but today was foggy because the temps were close …
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The lake has about 12 inches of ice on it right now, but today was very warm at 50 degrees. We walked across the lake and enjoyed the beautiful sky as the sun was going down.
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Calvin and Dan wanted to run their Traxxas RC cars in the winter conditions. We looked at buying special tires, skis, and some other things, but we ended up building our own tire chains. The tire chains work really good in the snow, and much better than Calvin and Dan thought they would. Here are …
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We took out our pier today. The weather was an unexpected 70+ degrees, and windy. Calvin and Dan did the job in under 2 hours. It’s sad to see it come out of the water, but it had to be removed before Nov 1 (according to township rules).
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The weather was really nice for the middle of September, so Jen and Dan took the sailboat out. Lots of wind to keep us going, and the water wasn’t too cold when we got splashed.
Read More Sailing our Catamaran
Calvin and Dan did some fishing after a soccer game. Dan was able to catch a few nice fish, but all Calvin got was a little guy. He snagged the fish somehow with his hook, because the fish’s mouth was too small to bite the hook.
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The local sporting goods store had a really good sale on kayaks yesterday, so we decided to buy a pair. For never owning kayaks before, these are basic models but really easy to paddle. They go nice and straight and zip through the water.
Read More New Kayaks for our Family