Just another day in paradise. Today was golfing for me and Geroge and it was father’s day. Just a few more pictures today.
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Day 2 in Hawaii. More swimming, more playing in the ocean. More pictures.
Well, we are in Hawaii again. Just got here long enough to get in the water for a little while. Sam is just LOVING the ocean this year. Margaret is a lot more comfortable in the water as well.
We had a great weekend in Tahoe for Memorial Day. We went on hikes, got a lot done around the house to prepare it for summer, bought everything that was in Reno, went to the dinosaur park, and lots of other stuff. Great weather, great weekend.
Because of Mary’s graduation, we had to leave from Oakland about 4pm on Friday. So, we decided to go an around about way. We ended up driving through the delta, along levees for a good bit of the way. It took longer, but we avoided most of the traffic. It was also a very interesting part of the state that we had never been to.
So, while we were waiting to see my dad every few hours while he was in ICU, we toured Jackson a bit. We saw the Frank Lloyd Wright house, Fountainhead. We also saw where Eudora Welty lived most of her life.
We were back in Starkville for Thanksgiving. My whole family was there. My uncle made it down from West Virginia, with his son Timothy who I haven’t seen in over 10 years. My aunt came up from Pearl. Of course my brother and sister and their families were there. The kids had a great time playing with everyone. We went geocaching. We found this cache, but didn’t find this one.
Being in Starkville for Thanksgiving, we went out to campus and got some MSU stuff and then went and rode the tractor. All the kids got to drive a bit. Katy drove it by herself. She even ended up driving it all the way back into the garage and parking it.
While Elizabeth and Margaret were at Girl Scount Camp. Daniel, Izzy, Sam, and I went to Full Belly Farm for the Hoes Down Festival. It was basically a hippie festival, but pretty much centered around kids. There were workshops and what not on organic farming and other similar things, but we mostly just played with the kids. They did pot painting, Tibetan flag painting, crawled all over and through a straw maze, rode a zip line, picked pop corn, learned how to play drums, and went through a grass maze as well. It was loads of fun. We are all planning on going next year.
Margaret and I went to Girl Scout Camp this weekend for the Mother-Daughter camp out. We slept in this tent cabin with Sophie and Karla Maxfield. Most of Margaret’s troop went along, but we made up most of the camp out. We had a great time hiking to the Fairy Grove (aka Fern Canyon, a redwood grove) where the girls built houses for fairies. Margaret built a hotel. she spent a lot of time making the “Clover Cafe” portion of the hotel. She also enjoyed climbing the tree, making smores, singing songs, and exploring the tepees. We also spent a whole afternoon at the craft shack, making birdfeeders, necklaces, dolls and the big pink hat.
Katy’s first set of photos from England. These are basically uneditted, we will edit them and add to them over the next few days.