Assets and Liabilities

On day 3 of vacation we spent the morning "hiking" on a trail in Bayfield. It was a challenging hike for Deacon (aka Diego, who doesn't need help) and Baby Jaguar (who will except help from mommy jaguar). We went with Chris and Debbie and had a good time. It was short enough that we never heard "are we done yet?" and they led the pack.

At the end of the trail we looked into a stone building with heavy metal grids for doors and windows. Upon peeking in, we discovered that it was an old jail! It was pretty cool and the boys were super impressed when we said it was probably a "pirate jail" since it was right by the water.

After lunch we headed over to Madeline Island on Peter's dad's boat. We meaning Noah, Deacon, Roman, Lincoln, Peter, Elise, Genna, Joe, Peter's dad, me and 4 bikes, 1 ride behind and a burley trailer. We arrived on the Island after a 1/2 hour boat ride with 1 kid screaming 82% of the time, 2 kids screaming 64% of the time and 3 kids screaming for 27% of the time. Thank you to Peter's dad for not throwing anyone overboard.

We rode, in the rain, about 6 miles to a beach. The kids hopped right in and had a great time goofing around in the water. When everyone was sufficiently chilled and hungry (it was still sprinkling) we carefully assessed the situation:

ASSESTS: 2 partially dry kid sweatshirts, 1 baby shoe, 2 crocs, 2 sandals, 1 moderately clean and dry t shirt, 1 slightly peed upon t shirt, 1 clean diaper, and 2 pairs of semi clean/dry shorts and 1 promise of lollipops for the ferry ride back. (when you have 3 boys 4 and under, clothing size doesn't really matter).

LIABILITIES: 1 15 month old with only a saturated diaper on, 1 soaking wet underwear clad 2 year old , 1 underwear wearing (finally!) 4 year old, rain, and a 6 mile ride back to the ferry.

After clothing everyone as appropriately as we could, we biked as fast as conditions would allow back to the ferry dock. I ran to the yacht club store and purchased 15 tootsie pops. The lady kindly offered me a plastic bag with moist paper towels in it as well. I hoped 15 tootsies would get us across on the Ferry with minimal screaming. It did. Roman only tried to jump off once.