The kids spent most of their days swimming in the lake:
I was ordered to join them ... :
To throw them around non-stop:
And then this old man would collapse and beg them to just swim around:
The lake lends itself to so many amazing photo opportunities and hopefully this amateur photographer captured them OK:
We spent one day at the beach in Rhode Island just to mix it up a bit:
East Beach was our kind of beach; just a natural oasis with nothing built up around it:
We made sure to partake in the the legendary Del's frozen lemonade while in RI:
And on the trek back to CT, we made a few stops along the way for more pictures:
My personal fave, making the kids suffer in the bright sun:
We spent another morning at the aquarium in Mystic, CT:
We met up with family and kicked it old school with roasted marshmallows and ... :
Sparklers baby:
My son turned 10 (you friggin kidding me?) while we were away and we celebrated it well:
But when all was said and done, the best part was spending a week with my three favorite people in the world:
It kind of sucks to be back, but I can now get back to the garden and believe me, it needs me desperately.
John