It’s about 2 Am and we’ve been home fro about 2 hours. It was a really good vacation.. relaxing and fun.. good time with family. Last night we closed the week by all going to eat at the funky bar in the resort we were staying in.. We couldn’t get seated until about 9:30… Gabe passed the time waiting by perfecting his Ollie’s on the wall outside.

As we went into the restaurant, Shaun showed me she’d hidden a SamStone.. under a stuffed wild cat just outside the bar.

Dinner was fun and chaotic.. here’s my folks and sybs.. (and Jake)

And here are the long suffering ‘outlaws’.. they put up with alot !

We went home and packed most of our stuff.. then Gabe, Max and Iwent down to do one more fire of the spud cannon come fishing pole.. We did a little fire experiment with glow sticks.. messy .. but cool

Gabedid the steel wool spin thing.. Looks cool in time lapse.

Then we coverd one o the golf balls we found in glow stick go, loaded it behind a potato with a tuft of steel wool attached . and launched out into lake superior. The film doesn’t do it justice at all. It was really spectacular.

This morning we woke up early to finish packing.. max and I zoomed down to the lake to do a quick divein.. We hadn’t seen anyone in the lake all week.. I guessed because of the 40 degree temperature.. Shawnand Betsy came down to watch..

In we went..

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Then it was back to the cabin to move out.. I found soem cool tuff as I was cleaning.. Liek this clayhead that one of the cousins or syblings must have made while we were making SamStones.

Our last act was to place a SamStone. We’d been thinking that if Sam were here he’d be climbing on the rafters.. So Gabe colimbed up.. shimmied across the rafters and placed a SamStone on the crosspiece.

Then it was time to say good bye.. bye-Bye jake and mary

Bye-bye granpa and grandma ..

Sigh.. it was sad to leave.. but I was ready to go home.

We ran into Billy, ben and Betsy in th airport even though they’d leve about 40 minutes earlier than we did.. They’d had to change their flight.. so we hung out with them a little.. Itwas nice getting to say goobye to them again..

The trip home was long but uneventful.. a 2 hour drive, three flights and some long layovers made it nearly 15 hours door to door ..

There was a beautiful sunset as we left detroit..

Max and Rose met us at the airport.. . It sounded like they had a fun a peaceful stay at the house.. They loved the dogs and the dogs loved them . we drdve them home then came back to the house… which was spottless ! It was so great having them watch the place.

We all spent some time in the back yard watching the meteors. Thepersieds peakss tomorrow night.. and we saw a bunch of bright shooting stars tonight. Each one makes methink of Sam..

Right now, Max, Nicholos and Nick’s freind Wyndham are playing guitar and singing.. it’ now 2:15.. I better get ome sleep . More tomorrow.. Man it’s good to be home ! Gnite all.. Gnite Sam.
-me