After spending 4 days in Orlando at the MPI User Seminar, I was glad to come home to the extended weekend. Saturday was opening day at the pool. Danny and Nicole were already regulars, though, since they had been going to swim team practice after school all week.

We had barbecue (Danny and Nicole snuck an early look at the whole pig that was roasted through the evening before) and other pot-luck fixings. We ate with Bill and Theresa ______ and Jim and Carol ______ whose daughter Cindy showed Nicole, me and Danny the secret cut throughs to get home.

Nicole and Danny can now walk to school and the pool now that they know the secret paths.

We freed a baby bird from a tomato net on the way home.

Kelly enjoyed her first swim in the baby pool. She calls it a bath. She also calls the river a bath. She didn’t eat much barbecue.