National Dedrick's Christmas Vacations
On a trip to San Francisco, the Dedricks visited this chocolate factory.
What is Ghirardelli?
This noise was desired by Dr. Poke and Dr. Wiggle.
What is "Little Kid Giggles"?
Jack and Collin would ask for an epilogue using this phrase.
What are "a couple last sentences"?
This movie was filled with quotes that circulated the Dedrick household, one of the less common of which being the word "Ginormous".
What is "Elf"?
What are the Big and Little?
Jack, Collin, and Jenn got stuck at the top of this roller coaster while Dad got very familiar with a certain animatronic vulture.
What is the "Mystery Mine"?
This is the name that Jack used to refer to Collin as a baby.
What is "Coco"
This was the contraption that the kids would use to travel through time.
What is the Magic Treehouse?
This was Dad's rule for picking desserts at Tazino's.
What is "The fat ones are the good ones"?
These were the punishment when losing a round of the catapult basketball game at the University house.
What is a Birdie Bott's Every Flavor Jelly Bean?
On trips to Universal, Jack and Collin thought the rides were okay, but would rather spend their time exploring this themed area.
What is Jurassic Park?
Jack's Flying Bumper Car, made famous in Land O Lakes stories.
What is *puh p p pu cah*
When they travelled to the future, the kids discovered that Jack was the only one to appear not to have aged for this reason.
What is "Jack Jr."?
This favorite movie of Jenn's was accidentally stolen from a Blockbuster after failing to be returned for over a year.
What is "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"?
This up-north favorite board game was playable with two people or with four, but not with three.
What is Blokus?
Jack loved to try to catch the dancing water jets that were at this location.
What is Downtown Disney? (?)
This phrase was shouted alongside throwing a green tube pillow or tan rectangular pillow at one of the two boys.
What is "Chicken Dumpling to go?"
This introduction would be spoken quickly to begin every Land O' Lakes story.
What is "A long time ago in a land far far away in Northern Wisconsin there were four kids named Regan Madeleine Collin and Jack..."
While we didn't love this movie, we did end up collecting every McDonalds toy from it. They even ended up on our Christmas tree!
What is "Flushed Away"?
"Lava Monster" was made much more fun when Craig hid these objects for the boys to climb to on the Ben Franklin playground.
What were our shoes?
This very first clue to our very first Christmas vacation was the two-word name for a waterslide at the Kalahari.
What is the "Master Blaster"?
This line in a song sung by Jenn at night would usually receive a duet from Craig, shouted from down the hall.
What is "Waaaaaaaaah Close to You"
When threatened with a fight out on a treasure hunt on Big Lake, Jack refused to back down, instead responding with this phrase.
What is "Put em up, put em up, I'll fight ya with one hand tied behind my back"
What is 450* for 10-12?
This game was made famous on the living room floor of the University house, but often just consisted of Craig tackling and carrying the boys (and a ball) as he crawled across the room.