**click photos to enlarge, or to go to gallery link, click "Lost Lake Pics" at the bottom of this entry (Firefox doesn't always work with Kodak link, FYI)**
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Hey all ya Stinky Stinkers,
Here are some pics from Lost Lake on Sunday. Without any premeditation, somehow, we (everyone in my family that is here in town) all managed to make it up there at the same time to escape the heat wave in Hood River (I'm sure Mom and Dad are laughing at that statement, as they are stewing away in Arizona's chilly 120 degree temps).
As you can see, we had everything from a surfboard, to a kayak, windsurfer, boogie boards, etc etc--basically anything that floated to keep us cooled down.
Mark and Mo both busted out the Bic longboard, Oskar is a crawdad hunting maniac, and Erika is the Grand Champion of Rock-the-Boat (she totally schooled Monique: I’m telling you, the kid is a tank!). Soleil and Micah were also on fire, being kids in a wild-eyed way that only youth can get away with (usually).
Even more classic was when all the kids (including 15 year old Micah, if you can believe it!!) were running around catching newts, which are those weird salamander things---we had a bucket full of those lil' buggers, and ended up having the Newt Racing World Championships to (eventually) set them free…that is, until Micah kept circling back around and catching them all by the fist-full again...she didn’t care that we were trying to set these poor things free, the hunt was way too easy…hilarious!!
We capped off the super fun sunny day with a bbq and smoresfest, along with one of the most incredible sunsets I’ve ever seen over Mt Hood, and of course, a sweet disco dance-a-thon up on the street above the lake.
Such a rare event, to have it all line up for no particular reason other than just being together and living large in the company of the people I love the most. It was a super-fun family day of goofing around at the lake, it was really really good to have everyone together --well, almost everyone: Mom, Dad, Pierre... we missed all of you guys so much, wish you could have been there!! I will work on editing you into a few photos, it'll be almost like you were there...
Lots of love and summertime bathing suit wedgies, Auntie Nicool
*click the Lost Lake Pics link below to see my gallery:
Lost Lake Pics
2 comments:
Hey Pickles, did you find the anchor you pitched out of the row boat the last time you were with us at Lost Lake????? Your "Row Boating" Mom and Dad P.S. looked like a fun "Pile-of-tire" week end.
Who is the jackass soliciting lame get-rich-quick stints on my blog??? That's not what these are for, dumbass. Go away.
Thanks, Nicole
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