A Few Photos From Cousins Visit

As I wrote in a previous blog post, we had quite a few guests the other day and some beautiful weather for this busy day. 

Although I actually shot more than a thousand photos that day, here are a few photos... not necessarily the best... but a quick selection which is representative of the day nevertheless.  

Early morning was beautiful... we quietly paddled the lake in our kayaks as the morning mist rose from the lake and the rising sun burned through the night mountain fog. 

By mid-morning, the lake was a little windy (and thus slightly cool) but that made for some nice sailing. Lukey actually had a chance to sail for the first time and he enjoyed it immensely! Until now he only got to play on the boat as it sat on its dolly on the back lawn. He actually seemed more at ease in the fast-moving, leaning sailboat than while in a slow-moving, stable kayak.

I have some video footage of both this first sailing experience and the early morning kayaking but compiling a video will have to wait until I get back to my more powerful computer with editing software. Sheila's brother, Doug, helped out by providing some aerial video footage while Sheila captured some footage from the land. I should be able to put together a nice video! The aerial footage of the house and property really looks beautiful.

Long before lunchtime, the weather turned to a typical hot summer day! The water was calm and surprisingly warm too! As we moved into the afternoon, the sun bordered on actually being too hot but nobody had any problems with sunburning for a nice change.

The grandkids are now in the process of packing up to spend the weekend with mommy before returning to Gee and Papa to spend time at the lake next week.  

Also worth noting here because my mom was always the self-imposed family "Chief of the life jacket police"... the grandkids love the water...  Lukey even went out to the float and jumped off into the water! They love the boats... they love being on the dock... they love kayaking... they love being in the water at the beach... and, quite surprisingly, they want to wear their life jackets all the time and even refuse to take them off when we say it's okay!

As always, we're enjoying our time at the lake house...