My mom's side of the family (or some of them, at least, though I'll get to that later) decided that this year, we'd do a little family thing together, and it would be to rent a house in Charlevoix, MI. We spent the last week there; me, my mom, and sister, my dad for half of it (he had to come home in the middle for an inspection on our house), my mom's two sisters and one of their husbands (the other came late, and stayed only for a day because he wasn't feeling well...we think he had E. Coli), and all their children.
To be honest, while I love my family, they are hard to deal with. I'm pretty sure this is true for everyone. We have all sorts of tensions that go on among the adults, not helped by the five young children running around the place and screaming. And of course, being the eldest cousin, the really used to enjoy doing things to me - sort of, "Let's all gang up on the big kid" thing. They've gotten better - now I only have the youngest hanging around all the time, and she's absolutely adorable, so I'm okay with that.
Anyway, so we were up by Charlevoix. It really is beautiful up there in Nothern Michigan. Like, breath-takingly beautiful. It's the second time I've been there, it turns out - when I did the bike trip through my camp two years ago, we biked right through it. We also visited a couple other towns we went through - though it took us far less time by car. Leland, known for its historic fishtown (...yeah. It was actually pretty nice), and Traverse City, which was hosting the...National Cherry Festival. *cough*
I leave for Ohio this Wednesday, where I will be for my dad's family reunion on Saturday, and moving on to my YMCA camp on Sunday, for two weeks. When I get back, I will have one day, and then I will be going to another camp, at which I will be teaching disabled kids to ride horses. The day I get back, I have a French exchange student as well as family coming over.
It's going to be a busy summer.
Books read this year: 61
Times I've been to the beach: 5
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