Our last day

After the park on thursday we spent the afternoon visiting in Rhinelander again.

Friday after the park in the morning we packed a picnic lunch and went to Crystal Lake. Mom used to go there a lot as a kid and wanted to take Alex. We didn't bring swimming stuff because it wasn't an overly warm day - mid 60's and only sunny on and off. But there were tons of other kids swimming there and when the sun was out it actually felt fairly warm so of course Alex wanted right in the water!

Hydrology/geology lessons w/ Papa, recreating the Mississippi River delta.....





Friday night Grandma Ruth, my aunt Teri, her daughter Joanna and her granddaughter Katie (my cousin Dan and his wife Melissa's little girl, so Alex's 2nd cousin) came over for supper and then Lori and Mike stopped by later.

After putting Alex to bed, Ben and I went into town friday night to meet Bucky and Andy at Otto's. Bucky and Andy are friends of ours from when we lived in Houghton, we met them thru my cousin Jared and our families all know eachother as well. Andy's grandparents live in Minocqua and Bucky's family is nearby. We got a surprise when we got to Otto's, Andy's sister Sarah was up visiting too and Bucky's girlfriend Amanda stopped in later! It was great to see everyone again and catch up a little.

There was a band at Otto's...I had forgotten how great the people watching is in Minocqua during the summer. We used to go out there quite a bit during the summer when we first had moved to Houghton. You get quite a mix of people between the Milwaukee/Chicago tourist crowd (think high maintenance suburbian soccer moms and baby boomers gone wild), the "townies", and the international college students that come in the summer as camp counselors and restaurant/shop staff.