Thomas Site. It's A Place to Go.

It seems to me that I must be old. It doesn't seem all that long ago that I was writing here about Ray—but that was back in May.

An entire summer has passed, and most of the fall. During the summer, we took Alex on a camping trip, and he loved it. It was only a night, but he spent the whole time running around the site naked except for hat and sandals. We have some pictures of that here. The high point of the trip (from Alex' perspective) was when a raccoon came right up to the site and took a bag of hot dog buns off the top of the cooler. Alex talked about that for days after: "AND AND AND he came up and took the hot dog buns!" The mind of a young child has such a different perspective!

The summer also saw us headed back east for vacation, where we spent time in New Hampshire (saying our final farewells to Azalea, Claire's mom), and Vermont (where we stayed a week in a house in Charlotte with my Mom and visited with family).