Photos from our family week at YMCA Camp du Nord in northern Minnesota, at the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
"Pitty jowers."
Oscar with his nature notebook, Milo at the Totem Pole in the center of camp.
Mark and I at the top of "Old Baldy," one of five hikes we took while the kids were in Age Groups.
At du Nord, families live and play together except for one two-hour block each day from 10 AM to noon, when the kids are supervised in age groups by camp staffers. We expected to be toting MJ along with us on the hikes, because she's been unwilling to stay with anyone she doesn't know, but the evening before when she had a chance to meet the young women who were in charge of the "0-2's", she announced firmly, "I stay with those class mommies." And she did! (They took her to throw rocks in the lake, an activity which was met with grave approval.)
I took several books along to practice my botany. Mark snapped this picture of me examining a plant which turned out to be something in the ginseng family. Another favorite plant of mine is wintergreen, which I never met before I moved to Minnesota. The scent of the leaves crushed between the fingers is marvelous.
The kids had a great time. Sometimes a little too great, as you can see from this picture snapped after dinner, and after we extracted MJ's dinner plate from under her head:
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