Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Vacation at the Lake

Lake vacations are much more popular up here than beach vacations (for obvious reasons). We had so much fun!

This is a really fun game to play in the car - it's called Railroad Rush Hour - My brother E gave it to the Man-Cub a couple of years ago. There's a bunch of cards that show you how to set up the board and then you move engines and cars one square at a time to free up a path for the red engine to get out. The cards get harder as you go on and even if you've done them before you can come back to it a while later and it's new again.
There was just lots of this - playing on the beach...

The Man-Cub made a couple of fast friends with other boys who were staying at the lake this week - they played together quite a bit...
Here we are in our paddle boat - whew almost home...
It was a lot of fun - but it took about 2 hours of paddling and the Man-Cub didn't ask to ride the paddle boats again...
Remember it stays daylight up here until about 10:30 - so here we are swimming at 10:00 PM...
There was some swimming in the pool - but not a lot...
A couple of families of Canadian Geese - their little babies are so sweet...
This was just interesting - they're 'harvesting' the seaweed...
They pile it up on the beach and haul it away...

6 comments:

  1. We have Rush Hour, and Tipover by the same company. Good fun (my husband is very good at those games, must be the logical brain).

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  2. hey, loved the comment about not asking to paddleboat again!! nothing like too much of a good thing....

    and the 10 o'clock swimming shot was pretty neat too!

    love, k

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  3. Hi Nicola,

    Yep - I actually think both the Man and the Man-Cub are better at the visual/spatial games than I am - I do try 'though...

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  4. Hey K,

    We had a lot of fun at the lake - I'll try to post a photo of our sunset up here - about 11:15 still...

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  5. I grew up in Michigan and we always had an annual lake vacation. You're pictures reminded me a lot of my brother at that age, on vacation. :)

    Looks like you had a great time!

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  6. Thanks Kristina,

    We had such a good restful time - we're happy to be back home too...

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