It got me hugs.

Ivan in front of his new favorite spinny ride, The Fiddler’s Fling. His new favorite roller coaster is the Goliath. He rode it twice.

Ivan spinning the bean boozled prize wheel. He had to eat a rotten egg jelly bean.

Riding the two story Columbia Carousel.

The kids have been asking to pitch a tent in the backyard and sleep in it for years.
This is the summer we did it.
Eric made a fire in the firepit for marshmallow toasting and Ivan slept better out in the tent than he has been in the house.

Ivan put on this outfit without even realizing it was the 4th of July. Ezri is wearing her girl scout gear to prepare to march in the parade.

This is the one photo “silly style.” You can kinda tell Ezri’s tongue is out.

Due to high heat and a ban on screen time, Eric introduced the kids to Risk and Clue this weekend. Ivan loves Risk. Ezri is more into Clue. She wondered how I knew when I returned from work that she had played as Colonel Mustard. That’s the yellow piece on the game board. I knew she would pick yellow. I mean maybe Professor Plum after she gets tired of yellow but initially yellow.

Perfect for a Friday when the heat index is 103 – actual temperature 95. Rocky Road continues to be Ivan’s ice cream flavor of choice.

Ivan was impressed with the dorm room, ALL the junk food, the bounce house, the sno cone truck, playing mini golf, learning frisbee skills and playing foosball.

His face when he realized that truck had sno cones!

Ivan was not into meeting lots of new people or posing for photos.

Frisbee lesson from his dad and our friend Pier

I didn’t catch a good photo but Ivan loved the foosball both in upper Sayles and the basement of the Cassat Dorm

Storytime at the library is a thing the Carleton academic librarians now host for kids of reunion attendees. According to our friend Ann, she proposed hosting this annually after the reunion 5 years ago when I volunteered to do storytime for kids.

This is a drawing lesson and talk about how picture books are made by a classmate who is now a professional children’s book illustrator.

Ivan, Ezri and Katherine are trying to stump each other by sharing riddles they know.