Here’s what we were up to in July. More boating, this time with the Toomey’s.
             

Layla did a musical theatre camp and performed a routine from Annie.

I helped my parents get their house on the market. Here are a few arial shots I took with our drone.

The ice cream man came to town

We were busy with summer swim team. Grammy and Papa came to a meet.

Toward the end of July, we went back to Bainbridge Island to stay at the Tyee Outstation and see more of the town. We had a great time, learned more about our boat, and got to go through the big locks this time coming back!

Looking back at Seattle

We walked to the Japanese American Exclusion Memorial

Phoebe overheated and had to be carried back

Picking blackberries

On a date!

We went to see a friend from the yacht club who was playing live music with his band.

At the pump out station

We saw our friends from Snoqualmie, the Woods, at the locks. They have three boys who our friends with ours.

Whew! We’re all tied on!

Lock traffic

Back at our marina

In July we, along with Grammy and Papa, went to Pullman to visit Scott and his family. We had a great time being together cooking, talking, eating, playing ping pong and going on walks. We even looked at some houses over there for Grammy and Papa.

One day Jonathan and I took the kids to the water park

    

We enjoyed another Snoqualmie Fourth of July this year. Our small town does a great job with this holiday and we always like spending it at home. The city featured this picture of us from the parade in their social media post.

Cooling off with snowcones

The kids were excited to set these off

Then the boys went out for more

We invited a couple families out with us early in the summer to spend the day in Andrews Bay. It was a perfect day in the sunshine, enjoying good company and letting the kids play in the water. We also held our renaming ceremony for Everlong, which involved pouring a bunch of champagne in the water, renaming the vessel, reciting some verses for Poseidon, and asking for safe passage in his waters.

Dave & Blake

Jonathan, Dave, Blake, Wendy, Vivian, Heather, Dylan & Lindsey

 

Layla, Kelsey, Silas & Dylan
 

Layla, Kelsey & Vivian

 




 

That evening our friends went home and our family stayed on the boat

Changing the zincs the next day

What a difference!

Boat scrubber!
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Layla gave it serious thought, but in the end, wasn’t ready to jump

Andrews Bay