Labor Day 2011

This is just about everyone who was at our annual Labor Day Mirror Lake picnic. The weather looked a little threatening on the way up, but it stayed nice the whole time we were there (and kept a lot of people away). We stayed from 11 to about 5. It started to rain just as we left. Dad, Janet, Jennifer, Stanton, and Chieko and I ate the usual hobo dinners. Of course I started the fire with one match, no paper, using the three essential ingredients to a campfire: fuel, oxygen, and patience. We started a second fire with no matches, just some warm coals from the first fire. The others all brought food they'd made at home. We also roasted some wonderful giant marshmallows and stuffed them with little Twix and Snickers bars that Nancy brought. Jordan and Madison were off catching a bunch of fish when we took this picture. And Jason and Julie (Julie's taking the picture), who brought two kayaks, headed up just after this to hike Bald Mountain.

Jason, Maddy, and Kaitlin.