August 21, 2006

Another once-a-summer treat is the family trip to Tinkertown (the name of which now makes me giggle thanks to mixed moss). This year we went with good friends Janet and PJ and their kids Jacob and Megan…

Chloe always enjoys a cigarette when boating. Kathryn doesn’t like the smoke.

 

Chloe and Jacob doing an impromptu street performance as an outreach. Lots of people got saved I think.

 

Megan expresses shock at Kathryn’s level of glee at machine-gunning other riders. Lots of kids died I think.

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(p.s. - scroll down to see The summer that was 1.0)

Gonna do a bit of bloggerly catch-up here on the summer that was. It’ll come in 3 chunks then chunk number 4 will be a day-by-day transcription from an analog blog account (paper and pen) of the personal retreat I just returned from.

On with the show…

1.0 - Winnipeg Beach

We usually only get out there once a summer but it’s always a highlight for our family. It’s about an hour north of the city and we were just out there for the day.

Chloe chillin’

Kathryn divin’

Kathryn smilin’

Not sure if anyone outside of Winnipeg (or inside of, for that matter) ever watched the summer-teen-drama TV series Falcon Beach but it was all shot at Winnipeg Beach and they desecrated the landmark water tower at the east end of the beach. I think they might have been vinyl lettering though cause if I squinted it looked like the edges were peeling a bit.

Reminds me of the time Winnipeg lost out as the location for the Brad Pitt/Anothony Hopkins pic “Legends of the Fall” because the city wouldn’t replace the mature trees in the historic Exchange District with smaller trees. There was much local debate over that but I can’t remember what my stance was.

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