Summer madness is in full swing! I’ve been on a trip to the Minnesota North Shore of Lake Superior this past week–one of my favorite places in the world (what little I’ve seen of the world). I thought I’d have internet access, but didn’t. Thought I’d have cell phone service–didn’t. I was planning to be mostly unplugged anyway, but I wasn’t prepared for total unpluggedness. And hadn’t prepared other people, work contacts, etc. Oops. But when we went to Grand Marais, there was Wi-Fi in front of the tourist office so I could check email a few times over the week. Sorry to be AWOL without notice!
Anyway, I had a great time with my family and my sister Patty’s family, and I found lots of material for poems, reading passages, and a chapter book I’m outlining. Here are some of my favorite pics–you can see more here, if you want.
| My nephew and daughter jump off an old destroyed crib in Duluth Harbor. That Lake Superior water is cold!
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Split Rock Lighthouse | |
| Me on the rocks below Split Rock Lighthouse
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Do you ever feel like you’re just not yourself on vacation? | |
| Alpine sliding was a highlight (though my brother-in-law and nephew both ended up all scraped up from separate incidents)
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4th of July in Grand Marais, MN | |
| Sea kayaking on Lake Superior
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Sunset on the lake | |
| Randy wins!
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As you can see, we can’t resist a good cutout board. | |
| Apparently, my husband is a Skizzle-baking Viking princess. Huh. | My sister and my older daughter, who joined us for just a couple of days
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| My sister and her husband on Artist’s Point in Grand Marais, where you can climb over cool rock structures and an extremely narrow ledge to the lighthouse (which was a little scary early in the evening–I would have hated to try it after people started drinking!).
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Ben and Maddie at Artist’s Point | |
| Games and eating were two of our favorite activities. | I apologize to all people along the North Shore who were frightened by our weirdness. Um, I’m with you on that! |