A Cerney Periodical

 Our somewhat recently established tradition of meeting Jake, Joanne and Nate in Tucson to convene and celebrate with our mom and dad for turkey happened again! Yay! Since mom and dad don't travel anymore, we try to take them on a mini-adventure while we're there (they are just as happy to stay home though) and give us a little more cousin time. This venture we went to a family friendly casino in Camp Verde, Cliffs Castle Casino. Our first night there we went fancy for some cave dining. Joanne gets politely whipped at thumb war.   Part of the reason for heading out of Tucson was for some quality discing. The place we went was just magnificently beautiful. And everyone played!!! Jake has played before and it was great to take him along and get Nate hopefully slightly interested in the sport. Alice crushing! On our way back from the casino, we revisited one of our favorite Tucson haunts, the Ostrich farm, Rooster Cogburn. This place is pretty magical and was worth bringing the ki

Another year of love in the Matt and Holly land. Complete with children, apples, fall and love! For this year, we booked too late (and were a coughing a bit for the splurge) for our beloved Goldberry Woods, so we ended up in Saugatuk this year, very close to where we go, the "Hamptons" of the Midwest. Annual picking brought us to a new place that had only one kind of apple, but it was a new favorite! Firecracker apple! the chosen one!! No event is complete without a Murray and Myrna sighting. Weather was worse this year! So for indoor stuff, we heading to the disco-golf for some spooky putts. Free video games! We made it to a small public beach to take in the wind, sand...and sink holes! As I did a tiny bit of tourist shopping, Alice mastered the monkey rings.   Then to the worlds largest root beer barrel. I can't confirm, but I certainly can't deny. Then on to one of our new favorites, Virtue Cider and farm. Alice was a basket case. Just as it started to rain while w