We had a wodnerful day at home.. went for a couple of short hikes, hung out with the dogs, floated in the pool and finsihed a bit more cleaning in the attic. Tonight we went to a restorative yoga and gong class then split a dinner at Franks in Winooski.. a great vacation day recovering from our already very relaxing vacation.. 

I have a few leftover pictures/movies from the week I wanted to share. the first was a spontaneous ‘performance’ that Gabe, Max and I did on the rental houses very ornate welded stair rail.. It kinda sounds like a gamalon

 

 

and here are soem pics my sister Mary and bro-in-law John had taken of the kids on the zipline course .. It looks like so much  fun ! (Thanks for taking  them M & J !) 

hey Betsy !

 

Gabe

 

 

Raya

Jake 

 

theo 

 

 

Ellery 

 

Mary and John 

 

really great trip !.. Thanks to my family for pulling it together ! (and holding it together 🙂 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Just got home.. and its so nice to be here. The dogs were happy to see us and the house looks glad too. 

It was a good vacation this week. good mix of outdoors and family time.. The fires  out in montana made it hard to see stuff far away.. but close up the woods were really nice .. I loved running the woods trails near the house..  It was really nice catching up with the family.. lots of changes.. but mostly we all stay the same. we’re an ecelctic group.. so it’s always interesting. 

it was also a great place to send off max and becky to their new lives in santa fe.. and gabe and raya  for their trip out west and Gabes new life as a grad student…

 

now I have to re-aquaint myself with my own  bed.. lookign forward to that.

more tomorrow

 

-nite all, nite sam

-jc

 

 

Very nice second to last day in Whitefish.. Diane and I did another 5 mile trail run.. which made for a complete week. ffels so good to have spent that much time running in the woods..

 

THe rest of the day we took it pretty slow… Max took us out on the boat for a look around.. Gaber got soem Wake boarding time in 

 

home sweet home .. such a huge place !.. I guess thats what you need for 18 people 

the ‘must do’ for the day was to capture pictures of all of us together.. always a fun time trying to aling  folks , smiles, families, etc.. we managed to pull it off.   Note the Samstones in the pictures 

 

 

afterwards came the ‘dyeing of the shirts’.. it’s been soemthing we’d managed to put off ’till the last day.. but it went well

 

 

then we had a mixed-up feast of all the leftover food… 

 

then down to the fire pit for ‘smores and singing.. somehow the theme for the night was Nirvana songs… interesting campfire singalong..

 

max used the fire to finish his ‘Daruma’.. a Japanese doll.. you fill in one eye when you make a commitment to yourself.. and fill in the other when you complete that commitment .   Then you can destroy it. Max successfully moved out of NYC after 12 good years there.. it involved lots of moving and sorting of stuff. Congrats my son  !

 

now sitting at the Kalispel airport ready to fly back to Vt. it’s been a good week.. Nice seeing my family..

Happy to be heading home. !

 

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Good outdoors day.. first a run with John and Mary.. doing about 5 miles a day which feels good . 

 

then prep around the house for leaving around 12. .. We had a reservation for some white water rafting on the middle fork of the flathead river. 

 

it was about an hour away. We signed the legal forms and all jumped on a bus. 

 

getting in the boats

 

our fearless guide Jen ..   formerly of Durango Co. 

 

the other boat.. all scalawags !

 

wait !.. they passed us !  How’d we let that happen ? 

 

we found a  nice flat place to swin

 

I went in next 

 

stopping to eat dinner.. jen and katherine.. the other guide.. cooked for us 

 

while we tried to warm up in the sun after our swim 

 

dinner time !

 

 

John looking presidential 

yum

 

interesting interlude.. we all got hit by a diffuse mist of bear spray that must have come from far away.. our eyes burned, we all started coughing  and we tasted pepper… .. it  passed in a shot bit.. more interesting than painful  

 

landing 7 rapids later 

 

 

back on the bus 

 

now home and ready for bed,..

nite all. nite sam

-me