Tomorrow is the big day…Beth and I are going to get away together for the first time since before 2003. Laura and Thomas volunteered to take to kids, all 3 of them, off our hands for a week while we go off somewhere for a second honeymoon. We do have to deliver the kids to their house, so we had to find a good place that was within fairly easy driving distance. We settled on St. Catharine’s, Ontario. By what we’ve seen on the web it seems to be a fairly artsy, marina-y kind of place, maybe a bit like Saugatuck. There are hiking trails and a lakeside village, ship-watching, antiques, shopping, and a super cool old inn built out of a defunct textile mill, called the Stone Mill Inn. Looks awesome. It’s also near the Ontario House of Industry & Refuge where Beth’s great-great-grandmother lived and died. We’re going to go visit. We’ll be in Ontario for a week or so, then pick up the kids again and take them to Niagara Falls. But anyway. This week, Monday the kids and I went out with the Rahns to the TinCaps game in Fort Wayne. Steve had some extra tickets, and asked if we wanted to go with them. We were sitting in the picnic or pavilion area or whatever they call it, down the 3rd base line so not real close to the batter, but with a good view anyway. It looked at first like the TinCaps were going to get shelled but then things calmed down, and it started going back and forth. We stayed through around the 5th inning or so before all the kids were pretty bored so we headed home. Eventually we found out the TinCaps did lose. Also this week, I got the pool up. I was able to get it out of the storage unit with help from all the kids, and we just bunched it up and put it into the back of the truck, and it fit. So at least that was easier than strapping it to the top of the camper and trailering it home like I did to put it away last fall. But, we also are finding that the inflatable ring that goes along to top of the pool will not stay inflated, so maybe that it related to moving it. Or, it’s just getting old. I filled and shocked it, but it’s still way too cold to swim in even a few days later, so we’re going to see how it is when we get back from vacation. Thursday was Missy’s birthday, so now we officially have 3 teenagers in the house. And on Friday, Alex finally got his Nintendo Switch. Poor kid, he has been saving for a long time to earn the money for that thing (Beth and I have made it clear that we are DONE buying gaming systems) and he got over the edge with his birthday money, but it’s been completely out of stock everywhere. I’ve been dropping in to GameStop most days to see if they have any, but it’s been a long time. Alex has been pretty frustrated that he’s had to money for about 3 months now but he couldn’t get one. Finally, he found that the Meijer in Goshen had some so Beth took him out there to get one. They got it just in time, I guess. He even got a game to play on it. Some Zelda thing.