Mommy went swimming alone because nobody was crazy enough to get in the seemingly forty degree water with her....
Julia stayed on land and played in the sand. She enjoyed destroying Daddy's sand castles.
Julia is sitting in a pile of ruins...it was once a sandcastle city..
Julia's homemade swimming pool. The lake water was too cold so we dug her a pool in the sand and it was much nicer.
It was a hot one in Duluth today! Anytime we get over 85 degrees, everybody in town has to leave the house and go to the beach because air conditioning is a rare find up here. Swimming in Lake Superior is always an adventure. You get in and you jump right back out because it's freezing. Then, you slowly get up the courage to get back in and you stand there and feel your legs burning with cold in the water. Most people stop here and get out. Few choose to stay in longer, perhaps the coldness numbs your sense of reason first....and then there's those of us that have a built-in, God-given wetsuit.
Anyways, the hot weather and the fact that I was off (!!!) led us to Park Point beach today, and we took our friends Dan and Jessi, and auntie Annie. Julia had a wonderful time playing in the sand. We built her a little personal swimming pool in the sand so the water would warm up enough to sit in. Julia played for almost two hours before she threw the towel in.
We went home and slept after that while Daddy did some long-awaited projects around the house. Then it was off to DAn and Jessi's for movie night: the Neverending Story. What a classic.
I hope we get some sleep in this heat as I am on call and Mike is home alone with the baby tomorrow. We put a box fan in the window on High.
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