A Glorious Ending!

I have many things to tell you about these two, some of which I will tell you.

Man this was a super hot competitive battle!

Meanwhile:  Dams

Movies (Narnia)

Crazy Sea Lions!

Thor's Well and Devil's Churn!

Stand-offs of great minds and Wills!

Maggie shopped for Produce wearing no Pants whatsoever!

Arthur read a book!

Childrens took a surfing lessons and then Ida and Elsie went out in subarctic conditions for way too long!

On the way home, Ripley's!

Wait, there's more:

More dam-building, for one!

Is this where we started?  Still much to say...

7 adults vs. 7 childrens

Yes!  Ella drove us south then west...

...first visit to beach was unpopular because it was so rocky and dangerous!

But we got all three cars of cousins together and talked about things.

And then figured out that if we turned Right, not Left, we'd get to the sand.  Windstorm almost wrecked our shelter, man!

Medical journal reading is ceaseless.

Ida failed to get out of this picture above.

 Man of such mystery!

Much dam-building on trip.

and sunblock application...

A little hike to Devil's Churn!

Very Vining!

The mysterious Eastern Coasters of Vining came West!  Red-eye, man!  Knocked this bro right out!

By the next day we were up to our hiking ways.  Seeing some Portland, some volcanoes, you know.

Save the Giants!  (Can you see Miki in this photo?)

Some good-natured ribaldry and badinage!

So, so Very Vining!

But would we stay in Portland?

OH, yeah, Duniway Carniv

Or post-Carnival

Summer Begins

We went to a celebration of Ida's Trackers Wilders Apprenticeship ending.  Now she can survive in the forest.

Some of us decided to stretch out this hide.  It got their hands very sticky.  Also, both girls got thrown up in the air on this hide; I don't know why it wasn't captured on film.

What a well-balanced lass!  Ida also had a jazz dance performance, at which she Shone to the sounds of Pharrell's song "Happy."  Post-performance:

Goodbye 3rd and 1st grades: it was fun, but now it's over

Last day of school: