Right after my return from DC, Jon and Theo took off for a week up at Widji. Jon had heard that this is a peach of a volunteer gig. You get to hang out in the north woods in the springtime, but your only duties are keeping the 5th and 6th graders in the cabin overnight. During the day the Widji staff whisk the kids out in to the woods. When Jon signed up for the late April/early May trip, I think he was envisioning some great trail runs in the BWCA. Alas, they still had up to 3 feet of snow in the woods. 3 feet. In May. When they arrived the ice was still on the lake. It was not thick enough to walk on, so the group cracked up some ice along shore so that they could still participate in the Widji ritual of a 'dip sauna dip'. That means that my 10 year old son jumped into the a nearly iced over lake, then took a suana, then jumped in again. Turns out that he was so excited about the opportunity that his first dip was done before removing his sweatpants that he had on over his suit. Oh well. He took them off in the sauna and carried on about his business. By all reports, they had a great time.
Back here in Minnesota, Eli and I had some time on our hands. We took a spontaneous evening trip to the Science Museum to see the Body Worlds exhibit. I swear we had the whole exhibit to ourselves. It was fascinating. Another evening we took advantage of the longer hours of daylight to get in a round of after dinner frisbee golf. It was a lovely slow week full of quiet conversation and acting on whims. Sure, we missed the other half of our family, but it was nice to slow it down and take it easy with just my sweet tween.
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