First on our schedule was a visit from Ulyana and Steve, who live in Baltimore. Ulyana had lived with us in Yardley, PA during her exchange student and under graduate years (1990's-2000's).
We were sad to see Ulyana and Steve leave, but we had a camping/kayaking trip to Baker Lake to get ready for. We packed our tent. Friends Judy, Janine, Bill, and Jean got their various sized RVs ready. Five of the kayaks were loaded on our trailer and on July 11th we headed up to Baker Lake.
The weather was glorious with blue skies and white puffy clouds. We saw the fish taxi dumping fish into the lake. While kayaking we saw an eagle catch a fish so big he had to swim to shore to eat it. It was a great time, except for the raccoon that found our Costco sized (BIG) container of chocolate and coconut covered nuts. It was our mistake for leaving it on the picnic table. We forgot raccoons are clever enough to unscrew lids. Somewhere out there was a mighty sick raccoon. There was only an empty container in the morning.
We capped off our trip by joining the Anacortes Newcomers Plus group for a boat tour of Diablo Lake.
After the tour we packed up and headed home. That was Thursday, July 14th. I was dealing with a bit of a cough, but all was well in my world.
