We went to Colorado on the front end and the back end. Cole went to a week-long summer camp the second week of June ~ Rainbow Day Camp at our church/spiritual center in Lakewood. He had a really great time (see pics!) ~ singing songs; doing karate, yoga, and archery; going to Pine Top to learn/experience native american traditions; art and music projects; and building a collective matrix of cardboard creations in the Dome Zone. We were also able to see a few precious friends and we are thankful for that time together. There was also precious family time - Cole fishin' (w/gma + gpa) and crawdad fishin' (w/gma)! Cole w/ various combos of gma/pa, cousin, uncle, mom/dad) also went to museums, zoos, movies, hikes, playgrounds, etc... We celebrated birthdays and witnessed the first drive of my nephew Jacob in the white subie...
Next we were off to North Carolina....and had a nice week-long summer vacation in a house off Lake Lure in the mountains with Sinclair-Crowel-French family members! It was a wonderful and relaxed time with family and the cousins (Maddie-10, Cole-6, Robin-6, Henry-3, Jack - 6mo) had a great time swimming in the pool and lake, hiking, playing in nearby interactive children's museums, and hanging out in the house we all rented together. A good place/time to have fun and catch up.
NC - Delaware, Ohio to spend time with the Pasters and experience a "small town" Fourth of July parade (complete with large tractors) and the OWU campus symphony-concert and fireworks. OH - Long Island, New York to visit with Martin (Rich's stepfather) and Jeannette where we took a trip out to Fire Island and then took a ferry boat to Connecticut where we made our way to Maine.
Bar Harbor, Maine is a great place to spend the middle of the summer - not too hot - and Acadia National Park is an inter-connected and GREAT part of being in Bar Harbor (wonderful city next to the sea). Alan (Rich's brother) and his son Hayden joined us for part of the time and we had fun bike riding and hanging out (no pics w/Alan-Hayden?). We took advantage of the great transportation system in the park and Cole earned his Junior Park Ranger badge. A highlight was the Dive-In Theatre with Diver-Ed nature program on a boat (mini-Ed is a small plastic diver "buddy" of Diver Ed) where you experience sea-life in real time with Diver Ed via video and audio and then hands-on with things brought on board (spiny urchins, sea stars, sea cucumbers, lobster...) http://divered.com/ All around a VERY good time - grateful for these times with family and close friends & a nice road trip for our family.
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