We just got back from a day in Michigan. Ryan was having his birthday party in Kzoo today, so after church Beth and the kids and I headed up there. We spent a little while at the cemetery near Plainwell where Becky and Beth's parents are buried, cleaning up the broken flower pots and trimming the grass and pulling the weeds around the graves. Looks like nobody has been there in a while. But we met a guy that went to high school with Beth, within a year or so of her. They didn;t know each other, though. Anyway, the party for Ryan was nice, and it was good for the kids to see their cousins again. Ted was there too, haven't seen him in a long time. Yesterday Beth and I took the kids up around Goshen on a geocaching trip, we got 4 of them before all were too worn out (Alex was coming down with a head cold). We also finally went to South Side Diner, the place featured on Triple-D that we've been saying 'we should try that place sometime' for years now. It's excellent, we should have gone there years ago. I think Alex's cold is a direct result of swimming in Center Lake last week (Thursday) and Pike Lake (Friday). We all swam Thursday evening right after I got out of work. It was HOT those days and the lake felt really good, though NO comparison to Lake Michigan at Holland, or South Haven. But wet and cool, if a bit slimy, and I feel dirty afterwards. And I try hard to keep my eyes shut underwater. Beth said Center Lake was much less mucky. The kids had a lot of fun but now the colds come, is my bet. Oh, and the tomato plants Beth planted in the backyard this spring? Producing grape and yellow tomatoes like crazy. And they are gooo-oood. Wednesday Brad and I went out to North Webster for a district kick-off meeting for Cub Scouts. I think the previous leadership was not really crazy about meetings, or rules, or regulations...so we'll see how things go this year. Wednesday was also the send-off party for our church's intern Ray, who has been an incredible blessing for us all. He just...fit. Our kids both love him, as do all the other kids. I was at the meeting so I wasn't there, but Missy cried and cried and cried because he was going away and prayed that night at bedtime that she could see him every day for the rest of forever.