Wonderful Weekend

We had a very nice Labor Day weekend. My nephew Isaac, wife Andrea, and the 7 kids (dwarfs) came to Ash River for the weekend. I was worried at first that we wouldn't be able to find enough to do for the weekend to keep everyone entertained. Not a problem...

We took the kids swimming....
One of the resorts has a raft, and they let us come and use it....

...and even the little kids were VERY brave and swam to the raft (15-20 feet away from the dock) climbed up and jumped off-again and again.....
...and we went to the project where Bill works....

Of course, as cool as everything is, the hard hats were the biggest hits...and the scissor lift....but that was, of course, off limits...

We took Sunday and rented a pontoon for the day and went to Kettle Falls...

(naturally, sideways...)
On the way home, we stopped and had lunch and went swimming at one of the many sand beaches, and campsites on the lake...

Everyone got to drive the boat....Captain, Captain, who's the captain!? (only one was watching where we were going...thank goodness!)

A nap.....and after, we went fishing...no pictures of fish, but Grant caught a nice little bass, and (with my help, I casted, Emile cranked...) Emile caught a nice 3 lb. Northern which we got to the boat and in the net, but the net had a HOLE in it, (wasn't ours...) and we lost it. That is what you get for trusting other people's gear... But, we (he) did get to see it, and that was the important part...we did eat the bass...YUMM...

Of course we ate well, and had great campfires at night. Mason, Emile and Harrison got to sleep in the "silver spaceship" (Airstream...!) and Harrison (he is 4) thought that was AWESOME. He really wanted Andrea to go out there and COOK something. Even tried to bribe her saying she could cook "vegetables"! (I will have to have some jiffy pop on hand for next time....) they were all so CUTE.

The girls got to do a little sewing, there was even some Xbox Kinect going on (imagine that!) and other computer games. I don't think anyone was ever bored! It took me 2 days to recover, but that is o.k. Can't imagine doing this full time! You guys are AMAZING. I missed everyone when they were gone. It was a lot fun...come back anytime...

Thanks for sharing your babies, guys...