Sunday, September 9, 2012

FUNTOWN - 2012

Funtown: Wherever Anner and Heidi are.

Last month Aaron and I met our friends the Kampe's on Madeleine Island located on Lake Superior.  Everyone was very excited about taking the ferry from Wisconsin to Mad Island.  I thought it was exciting because I had never seen such a cute little ferry!

It had been triple digits and drought so naturally we packed all t-shirts, shorts and multiple swim suites.  Except when we arrived the weather turned cold and it was about 65 and rainy.  On the up-side we got to hear the thunder, which is a rarity in Seattle. 

The rain and thunderstorms, changed our plans of spending everyday sprawled out on the beach.  Instead, the kids were forced to run around the house a lot and Aaron and I went hiking in the rain.  Still... we managed to eek out a fine time.  We ate well and had great social times with the Kampes.  Michael took professional photos of Aaron's jewelery which was another bonus (which you've seen the pictures on his newsletter)

You can see we had a good time:


Cute Little Ferry (I counted room for 20 cars...they probably can sqeeze a few more on).

Anner and Morgan showing Aaron the love.  The boys totally adore Aaron (who can resist?)  Morgan wanted to ride home in our car because we're "funner".  We like to think we're funner too, but since we wanted to stop and look at art we shoved him into the truck with his parents and went on without him.

Can't have vacation in the woods without s'mores and hobo pies.  Not having kids we didn't know exactly how dangerous a camp fire can be.  Ben nearly ignited Aaron with a flaming marshmallow.  Luckily, Aaron has cat-like reflexes and got the heck out of the way in just the nick of time.  

This is Lake Superior - "The Greatest of Lakes" the signs read.  It IS big!  It's cold.  It's clear.  It was very, very nice.
 

Here's Heidi and I bundled up for a day at the beach.

Aaron brought official Ultimate Frisbee frisbees to give to the boys.  It was a life-saver (or at least a sanity saver) when he took them out to "toss the disc" while Heidi, Mike and I made dinner or were packing for an outing or something.  Aaron proved to be even better than a Game Boy - and that's saying something!  Ben and Morgan played and played and played. 

We celebrated Aaron's birthday on the island.  The An-I-Mal flip flops were a big hit.  It wasn't warm enough to go without socks, but these are pretty fun footwear.  

 

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