Skippertak

Howdy, everyone…

I’m not even going to try to make excuses for the poor blog performance in 2011.  It’s just embarrassing.  I think I’ll blame facebook.  Or maybe some other site for the distraction, but really – there’s no excuse.   However, you may notice that all of a sudden – at least the pictures are up to date.  Not a lot of witty, clever commentary or little memorable quotes from Daniel and Rachel, but the broad outlines of our last six months are finally online in this and the preceding 5 posts. 

The Norwegians have a word for this.  It’s “Skippertak” – which for all intents and purposes just means “the extra effort you do to finish a lot of work that you’d been neglecting”. 

So over Labor Day weekend,  we went camping again.  We didn’t have a reserved spot, which is a bad call on the busiest camping weekend of the year, but nonetheless we managed to get a place up at Turquoise Lake, in a tent-only camping ground that we’d noticed longingly when we camped there last summer among the RVs. 

It was a very nice weekend.  The weather cooperated, though it was a bit cold, with frost in the mornings (there seems to be a theme to our camping trips in 2011), thought that’s sort of to be expected at 10,000 feet above sea level. 

We did the usual camp activities with hiking, fishing,  campfires, UNO at night and all the usual activities. 

This time, we brought the kids bikes, and Daniel had a great time mountainbiking the trails we hiked along. 

The lake was nice enough that Rachel and Eric waded in for a bit, though only Rachel was brave enough to actually lay down in the water. 

 

Now we’re back in town, and back at school again, and summer is winding down.  We have a trip planned up to Winter Park in a couple of weeks, then really nothing extraordinary planned between now and Christmas break – though we’ll probably come up with something. 

 

Here’s hoping that it’s not another six months before the next skippertak.

Love, ADRE.