Brian and my 10th anniversary was on July 10th. We went to a concert on our anniversary (Train and Gin Blossoms) and then went to Petoskey, MI for the weekend. Both were fantastic. We stayed at Stafford's Perry Hotel in Petoskey and I would highly recommend it. We walked around downtown the first night we were there and found many great shops including an excellent bookstore. I got a book about Chinese workers and I spent quite a bit of time sitting on the veranda of the hotel reading my book. I think that I could have happily spent the whole weekend reading on the veranda.
The next weekend I heard on the radio on the way home from work that Willie Nelson and Alison Kraus & Union Station were playing at the zoo that night and that there were tickets still available. Brian called his parents when he got home and we left them with the kids (and the chicken and vegetables that I had roasting in the oven) and went to the concert. We ran into some folks we knew at the concert including our neighbors who also left their kids with the grandparents for the night. The concert was awesome. This is now our third concert of the year. I think that is a record.
We did manage to get the kids back to the lake the last weekend in July for Lexie's 13th birthday party. She had a lovely party and despite predictions for rain it was a wonderful day for the party. I think it is safe to say she will be well clothed when school starts this year and she also has plenty of books to keep her busy for a while. Aunt Misty got sorbet for Isaac and Brian and I think that everyone that tried it was pleasantly surprised. Their allergies make everyone's diets more diverse :)
We went back up to the lake this past weekend to celebrate Grandma's birthday. Again, despite predictions for bad weather we had lovely weather. However it got pretty chilly at night and the water was pretty cold. Luis, a co-worker of mine, brought his family up for Saturday afternoon and the kids had fun playing and swimming together. That morning we were notified that the city of Toledo had put a ban on drinking and bathing in our tap water. That was pretty interesting information. Brian called his parents and was told that the stores were sold out of water for quite a ways. Luis told us he had to get almost to Ann Arbor that morning before they found and open restaurant to get breakfast. On Sunday they did not lift the ban although they said that healthy adults could take a short shower in the water (um, what?). So Mom was gracious enough to keep the kids for us and we filled a 10 gallon cooler with water and bought 14 2.5 gallon containers of water at the store to bring back with us in case anyone needed water. I won't go into tree hugger mode, but basically climate change and pollution from fertilizers is bad and we need to do something soon!
While we were at Grandma's filling up with water, Nero made himself quite comfortable in Grandma's kitchen:
They finally lifted the ban at about 10 am on Monday morning. So we are back to having safe tap water, I guess.
Oh, and we pulled Isaac out of daycare and Haley, a former student of Brian's has been watching him when Brian has to go to ONU. One day they used my leftover fleece to make Ninjago costumes for him and Mackenzie. Here is a shot of Isaac in his costume:
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