Summer so far has been more of the rainy weather we experienced on Memorial Day weekend. The rivers are running high and flooding, even without the snow pack melting yet. We might not actually fish a trout stream until late July! Full days inside mean some mischief for Claire...in the picture below she decided to use her magic markers as make-up to paint her lips and eyebrows blue.
This face is the guilty look.
We did have a long enough break in the weather for Claire and I to go camping a short distance away at Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park with friends I teach with: Lacy and Maya Noble and Lander Glenn. We had a nice afternoon of chilling in the sun, but a long night of hail, wind, and thunder storms ensured most of us didn't get a wink of sleep.
Lander and Frank made banana boats on the fire. This was a new cuisine for me; after a lifetime of camping, I'd never had the banana, marshmallow, peanut butter, chocolate combination cooked in the campfire before.
This week my sister Christine and her family stopped by for two nights on their trek across country for Indiana to Washington. We took them to tour the Lewis and Clark Caverns and to soak in Norris Hot Springs. The clouds parted long enough for some magnificent views as well during their visit.
Claire was in heaven playing with her older cousins Alyssa and Jessica. 
Yesterday we decided to drive up to Canyon Ferry Reservoir where we biked along the dike for a few miles before hanging out on shore. I got to read while Claire helped Nate with his fishing.
Nate is holding the carp he landed, and Claire looks a little unsure about getting much closer to it.
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Such nice pictures! Guess I'll have to try a banana boat sometime.
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