Long Weekend

Our first Long Weekend of the year at the cottage was filled with bugs, rain, and cold. We did have some nice weather the day we arrived on Friday (we arrived at 3:00), and the day we left (we left at 1:00). The days in the middle were quite cold. The good news was that the bugs were everywhere when it was nice outside, but since it was mainly cold we could be outside minus the bugs. I would have loved to have taken a photo of Paige in her bug jacket but it made her even more fearful of bugs, and she wouldn't let it put me on her a second time. It was a child's size small, but on Paige think "bug dress". Way too cute. Even though we were a bit cooped up, there were 6 of us so Paige seemed to have a lot of fun. When we were almost home Paige was saying "back Cottage?"

I think Paige looks like Harry Potter in this picture (wand, crazy hair, wizard-like expression):

"Relaxing" on the dock. Ya right, it was way too hard to manage both her and the camera on the dock so we had to go back on land. She was stomping her feet and being crazy, and getting far far too close to the edge:

Look at her crazy hair. No wonder there are sticks in it. My plan was to grow out her bangs, so I haven't been cutting it. I realized, though, that the hair in her eyes is from the back of her head. I have her a trim in the bathtub last night and it looks way more tidy. Mike took this picture with the tripod on a slow shutter speed. It came out really nicely: