Vacation, Day two

So now I get to be on my cousin's MacBook Pro...and wow. I want this thing. Anyway, yesterday pretty much consisted of preparing for and taking family pictures. Super fun. Can you tell by the immense amount of happy in my typing?? 23 people (including all age groups between a newborn and my 70-something year old grandfather) taking pictures throughout the lodge we're staying at, and then being forced to go to the beach to take an immediate family shot. Too many pictures, in my opinion. And we all had to be in a similar color palette as far as clothing goes. Yeah...awesome. So I'm sweating my arse off and having to smile AND keep my eyes open in the sun...too much for a fat girl to handle, lemme tell ya.

But the photographer was the dad in the family I stayed with during my first year of Master's Commission in Hammond, IN. It was so great to see him and his family - they have four kids now, but only had two when I lived with them. It's so strange to see and hear about people growing up and multiplying (like, getting married, etc.)

Later in the afternoon, we went canoeing. Yeah. So, canoeing might not be the best thing for our marriage...we'll leave it at that. But it gave me 4 activity points with WW, so I that's all that mattered to me. Add some "strolling" with my mother (read "power-walking" while being in flip flops...ugh), and a couple minutes in the hot tub...and I was READY for ice cream. And I got it. Well, I got frozen yogurt, but it was still good. I then wasted 30 minutes of my life watching the end of War of the Worlds, and ventured off to bed. By the way, futons do NOT do it for me, no matter how how "comfortable" they may seem...it's all lies...

Paul has already commented on the fact that I'm getting addicted to this fine machine...and that was before he started to read this blog...

I woke up this morning to my grandfather shoving a bowl in my face full of tiny, folded pieces of paper, adamantly proclaiming that I HAVE to pick a number...NOW...before anything else. So, come to find out, these numbers are the pairings for an all-family bean bag tournament taking place today, and I'm paired with one of my uncles. Welcome to my family...