August 5: I’m about to fall asleep, but I wanted to post the pictures I took during our weekend at Jack’s house. We all had a wonderful time. Mom felt pretty good, and there was lots of laughing and eating and being outdoors together. The weather on Saturday was rainy (for the first time in what feels like a month) and chilly, so we postponed the Wisconsin River float until Sunday. Instead, we drove around some of the beautiful areas surrounding Jack’s place, headed over to Iowa for a bit, and saw some beautiful views.
On Sunday, Michael, Matt, and Lisa had to head home early and so missed our float. Tremendous thunderstorms overnight kept Kyle awake, so he found a bed to catch up on sleep. But Terry, Jack, Tom, Josh (a friend of Michael’s), Joe, Becky, Bryan, Andrew, and I had a fun time on the river. We took a canoe so we could get home fast if Andrew stopped having a good time. And it was cold, cold, cold, but the wonderful thing was that Andrew was just sparkling with delight the whole time. He thought that being in the water was so neat, he did NOT want to ride in the canoe, and so he had fun in the river with the rest of us. We stopped for our watermelon demolition mid-way, there was some watermelon attacks, and despite the lack of sunshine and chilly water, everyone had a really fun time. Photos of the weekend are in the gallery.
Althea, Bryan, Andrew, and Sylvia