Jeff had to leave early today, so we began to use the boat right away.  We only had the single, double booted ski to use so I couldn’t shore start like I prefer.  After I ski’d, Jan ski’d, because she wanted to say she still could.  Poppa didn’t want to be left out, so he decided to try.  He also prefers to shore start, and decided that he just wouldn’t use the back boot.  Using lots of binding slime, he squeezed his foot into the boot and yelled ‘Hit it!’  He successfully skii’d with only one foot in the binding.  Congratulations!

Camp was cleaned up and we were off the lake by 2p.  After naps, we drove to McKinley Grove to see the giant redwood sequoia trees.  Those trees are huge.  It took 10 of us holding hands to encircle a medium sized tree.  Rich, Katie, Alex, Max and I were in the car together, so we decided to stop for a few geocaches along our way back.  We stopped for ones that were within a few hundred feet of the road we were driving on.  Rich is really good at following the device.  He was the first to spot 2 of them.  We were 3 for 3 on this run.  Alex really seemed to like it.

That night, Poppa and YaYa presented separated the boys and the girls for some special time.  The girls did some fingernail painting together (Lucy has little red flowers on her thumbs).  The boys all got small flashlights with shadow covers (to make shapes in the light). 

Poppa took the boys (and me) out for a night walk with their new flashlights.  We stopped at the water tower (which looks like it is brand new) and Nathan climbed up the ladder on the side.  But there was the ladder gate about 8 feet up, so Nathan couldn’t go any farther.  Alex climbed up and was working his way through the cage when he decided there might be an alarm and he didn’t want to go to ‘Juvenile’.  Max scurried on up and slipped right through the cage.  He went to the top of the ladder and let us know that there was a roof on the top of the tank.