My friend Brad lists his google chat status as "maximizing summer." I see that and feel wistful. Are we maximizing summer? Perhaps if you have to ask that, you're not. Perhaps my idea of maximizing summer involves paddling through class 3 and 4 rapids with no other care in the world beyond keeping your beer in the boat (and preserving life and limb). We have enjoyed some lovely summer days, though. We've sipped lots of sweet tea. We've done cannon balls in the pool. I've spent afternoons in my swimsuit and we've sent Anneke to bed "pool clean." I've baited a hook with a cricket and fished with a cane pole. I swam in a lake at midnight until I was scared away by phantom copperheads.
Okay, I feel better now.
In fact, I have been too busy doing summer things to blog, so I will recap. Behold our first camping trip, which took place over a cool, damp weekend in June at Metzler Park in Clackamas County:
Tent antics
The raincoat we hastily purchased on the way to the campground.
A walk/crawl in the woods
Sniff. We'll camp together again soon, Mcmillers!
Hopefully by the end of the summer we will have greased a watermelon and thrown it in the pool, with a prize to whomever can catch it. Stay tuned!
1 comment:
Oh, how jealous Disco will be - he has been itching to get those kiddos out in the woods and camping. This fall for sure!
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