This is how I feel anyway and even Donna is agreeing with me. Lots of people around here complain about the intense heat and drought we have endured for the past 10 weeks without relief in sight. Not me. We had so much going on and we made the best out of the sunny weather. Either we stayed cool inside or hung around some kind of a water source.
4th of July we are keeping cool with ice cold brewsky !!
Exploring down town St Charles
Two fisted
Checking out the ride
Donna won at the golf video game, we played a golf course in Zermatt Switzerland.
We started with taking Jacob and Luke to the water park. It took Donna quite some convincing to bring me to the public water park. She succeeded and I went. To my surprise, it was quit pleasant and I actually enjoyed myself.
Entering the water park
Waiting for the bucket to dump 250 gallon of water
Luke is showing off his back stroke
Trying to teach Luke to swim
Donna controlling the boy's
Needed a snack after his swim lessons
I was pressured by Luke to go through the tube tunnel
Luke is figuring out how to take advantage of my presence
Guess who is Luke riding on?
Pizza for dinner
Tired after all day swimming
So is Luke
After a good night sleep and a big breakfast there are ready to go again
Next we had a surprise party at our home with Eric, Karla, Gina and Daniel. Eric got hold of some great beef tenderloin wrapped in bacon and I contributed some grilled vegetable baked in puff pastry.
It was a great dinner. We had lots of drinks and ended up playing cards. Nobody won, because we had to stop playing, partly because it was getting very late that night and also some players had trouble seeing the playing cards.
Starting of with Chardonnay
Happy Gina and Donna
Preparing the grilled veggie
Ready to be wrapped in puff pastry
Intense Russian Rummy
Some snacks to keep up the energies
Seventh inning break, (watch the clock)
End of the game
Then came the time of Daniel and Gina's departure to Costa Rica for a week of r and r.
That meant we had to baby sit Nitro. To make him really feel good we had to take him every day to Daniels and Gina's home so he would not forget where he lives. I would go early and Donna joined me after work and we truly enjoyed their pool.
My honey looking awesome just for Nitro
To much training and playing made us sleepy
Very relaxing afternoon at Gina and Daniel's house
Even Nitro knows how to relax
Cooling of between reading
No time for reading
Always ready to play
We left the pool sparkling clean for Gina
As I wrote before, we went to North Carolina when Gina and Daniel returned from their Vacation and now we are all back in our homes again and celebrated the ending of this summer with a tasty cookout at Daniels Saturday. Jacob and Luke stayed over at our house the night before and traveled with Donna and me.
It looks like they're ready for bed
Luke knows how to entertain himself
There watching a movie on TV
Arriving at there house, everything is still nice and clean
Donna looks like she had a long night baby sitting Jacob and Luke
Same as Karla and Eric, recuperating from the Casino night
Jacob and Luke are ready to play all afternoon
Brian and Windy are well rested
Enjoying the afternoon
The party starts
My favorite picture "Pura Vida"
Daniel preparing dinner, while Gina is making sure everything taste good
Standard Hot Dogs for the kid's
Eric looks very satisfied with his dinner
Karla and the frog
Brian is up to no good
Even Karla thinks its funny
an other successful night
Cooling off before going home
Daniel is thinking about joining them in the pool
Midnight swim!!
As you see in the pictures, I was not lying when I said happy time. Everybody seems to be having a very joyous summer. (Perhaps we should cut down just a little bit on the Bacardi!! (well, maybe not!!))
