Summer Fun: Gommie and Pop Camp

With Gommie and Pop heading back to Texas tomorrow, our summer has truly come to an end.  It's been, on one hand, a great five weeks, especially for the kids.  Because here is some of what they've done:

• Fishing in ponds and rivers--the kids have their own poles now and are learning how to cast
• Kite-flying at the beach
• Swimming--they'll go one last time for a swim at the hotel pool today when we pull them out of school early!
• Sleepover at the hotel!
• Aquarium
• Audubon trail walk and bird-watching with binoculars
• Nemo 3-D
• Lots of yummy meals, in restaurants and at home--chicken and dumplings, ham, special pancakes, Chinese, grilling pork chops, hamburgers on the grill, bacon-onion-pickle-cheese open faced broiled sandwiches, beef beef and more beef
• Ice cream--I think they went to at least 3 or 4 different creameries
• Celebrated Pop's birthday
• Arcade games
• Putt-Putt golf
• Bowling
• Batting practice
• Scooters and bike riding
• Girl Scout swim party
• Gymnastics, piano, and kung fu lessons
• Lunch at school and the bookfair (later today)
• Basketball
• Studying dragonflies
• Played American Girl Doll (and ordered some accessories)

And I don't think we took a single picture!

(Gommie and Pop managed to have "camp" on their own, too, with hiking the Appalachian Trail in CT some and then a jaunt up to Burlington and also Rutland, VT with a swazu to Lake Champlain and Fort Ticonderoga!  They said next time they'll get a cabin in VT for the month and just come to CT on weekends!  Maybe we'll go to them in VT . . . .)