a beautiful day for kayaking at jersey valley (enjoying my birthday/father’s day gift)! later, off in the distance, near the far shore we’d discover a large flock of geese which looked like they wanted to attack ( maybe nests nearby? ). we kept our distance though odin offered to video if I went closer. he thought the video might go viral.
pretty happy to be out kayaking with odin on father’s day. particularly pleased that he seems to enjoy hanging out with his old man even though he’s going to turn 13 years old in just a few weeks?!
on vacation in michigan, enjoying the dunes and beach at p.j. hoffmaster state park.
i thought I’d find lots of evidence of underage drinking while cleaning up a local westby park with work peeps. the park has lots of spaces to hide shenanigans so I was surprised to find nothing but one shard of what appears to be a root beer bottle.
lake of the clouds – just one of the many, many awesome sights and sounds seen while camping and hiking with odin in the porcupine mountains.
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odin tests my resolve to not be a helicopter parent at a local park ( known colloquially as “the dragon park” because of the dragon woodwork on the park fencing ) by excitedly showing me how he can ride the “zip line” while doing a crazy gymnast flip move which involves pulling his legs up and over and switching his hands on the handle. all while moving laterally 6 feet off the ground.
oh, how to weigh odin’s sense of self-satisfaction gained from completing daring physical feats against the odds of a trip to the emergency room for a broken arm?