September 3
Today was truly an ideal cottage day! Can't think of a better way to end our summer vacation!
Beautiful sunshine and balmy temperatures, the kind that make you want summer to go on forever!!
By the time we were all up and moving around this morning, Nic had arrived from Mississauga. We had a leisurely breakfast of muffins, fruit, and yoghurt. (Thank you Heatherđź’• ) Great chance to catch up on each other's lives and just chat.
We spent the morning playing a bean bag toss game (in teams), somewhat like horseshoes, that had us all laughing. It was quite the feat to toss the bags onto a small platform, let alone into the hole to score a "ringer". It seemed that the more elaborate the arm-swing and dance routine in throwing, the better the result..... Too funny!
Dieter, who really is quite the BBQ chef, had a pork shoulder roast that looked about 10 lb. and started it on his smoker late in the morning to cook slowly. It was funny to watch him with Karl and Nic bent over the BBQ checking it all out ... guess this is serious business for guys LOL!
I noticed that Dieter was wearing a tee shirt, with "I Swam Buck Naked in Buck Lake" on it. Hmmmm.... After lunch, we donned our suits and climbed onto Dieter's pontoon boat for a tour of Buck Lake. We stopped in a sheltered cove and dove off the boat for a swim. Of course Karl and Nic swam off a bit and before long twirled their bathing suits overhead to prove that they could match Dieter's feat!
The rest of the afternoon was spent playing more of the bean bag toss and just visiting. It was so great to have the Euler family together!
Nic had planned to bring his lady-friend Brooklyn with him, but she couldn't get off work this evening. He sent so many texts and pictures about all the fun we were having that I felt sorry for the poor girl. Only at supper time did we learn that work was slow today and they sent her home! She was more than upset, having missed a lot of fun, and by then it was too late for her to come and join us.
Supper was delicious, the roast turned out great, and Heather matched it up with potato salad (among Karl's favourites), beets (among Karl's favourites), devilled eggs (among Karl's favourites) and lots more.. we were all stuffed!
About a half hour later I saw Nic sitting on the end of the dock, gazing at the sunset so I challenged him to a swim. Dieter joined us, we swam half-way way across the lake with just enough daylight to get back to the dock where Karl and Heather were waiting, cameras in hand.
Heather brought out a yummy birthday cake for dessert (Nic will be 35 on Friday), then topped it off with a gift from them, a tee shirt with, "I swam Buck Naked in Buck Lake!" Now how do you suppose Dieter and Heather knew he would do that?
Since they knew Karl would do it too, they had a certificate ready for him ...perhaps we'll make it into a tee shirt too!
We had a campfire, watched the stars for a while and then headed off to bed. Truly a great day!!!
Oh, as I write this, we can hear the people in Camp Walleye, just across the lake, sitting around their campfire, playing guitar and singing (very loudly) off-key, but, what the heck ... summers last blast!
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