The last 24 hours have just been summer on an epic scale. Yesterday, after a long morning of water play, we drove into Duluth for a backyard BBQ with a group of Elise's friends from high school. I didn't count but there were a handful of couples, so a dozen adults or so, and innumerable kids between 1 and 11. We spent the night in Duluth (a disappointingly sleepless night for too many of us) and drove back this morning.
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| The children of the high school friends. Lily, the oldest among them, is in yellow. |
Swimming, lunch, more swimming, even more swimming, then some swimming off the pontoon boat then a break to watch some shows, eat some dinner and then a bit more bedtime swimming. Hopefully they'll sleep all night.
My favorite moment came after dinner during a short canoe outing with Lily and Cate. Our lake appears to be home to one pair of loons. On a still, glassy lake, we slowly paddled toward them. I'm sorry to have caused them distress but they swam in opposite directions, one issuing that call that is familiar to every Minnesotan and anybody else who has spent a summer night on a northern lake. It was really beautiful.
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| Here's Liz ("Nana") being tortured alive on the "lily pad" by five children. She escaped, mostly unharmed, just moments after this was taken. |
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| Ali, friend Josie, and Cate being brave at the bow of the pontoon boat. |
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| This was a briefly-successful attempt to tow Lily and Henry in a tube behind the underpowered pontoon boat. |
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| Here's a postcard that should be postmarked, "Summer, WI." |
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