Tim wasted no time getting down to business at the lake. We all slept in a bit, but he managed to take the dogs for a walk, get the motor on the boat, take the boys out for a quick boat ride, and go swimming all before lunch. When he first went down to the lake, Tim called us down to see something. There was a deer SWIMMING in the MIDDLE of the lake. It was so fast that by the time Jeremy, Mom, and I got down there, it had gotten to shore and climbed out!
After lunch, we went on a geocaching adventure at Soudan Underground Mine State Park. We still had the GPS we borrowed from them to go geocaching at Bearhead. Goober got to go with us! We wound up going through the woods a little more than we would have needed to - Jeremy called it his most extreme hike ever. Maybe it was just the quarter Tim promised to whichever kid found the cache, but the kids seemed to have a good time. They especially liked the ice cream we went out for afterward! We tried to stop at "Soudan's Only Store." It's off the main road, and I've never been there before. The only problem was that even though the store was open, the ice cream counter was closed! We didn't understand why they couldn't just uncover the tub of ice cream and scoop some out. Anyhow, it was just as well, because much to Zachary's delight the cones at Vermillion Food and Fuel in Tower were HUGE. Still, there's something about buying an ice cream cone in the same spot you get your leeches that grosses me out a little.
On our way home, we had a bigger adventure than we had intended to. We drove back to the public landing on Lake 2, and on the way back I somehow convinced Tim to go down Six Mile Lake Road. Even though there's a private drive sign, there's also a stop sign AND a street sign AND it was on the GPS. So, off we drive in our MINIVAN, onto a road that was probably meant for an ATV. It wasn't until we were were about 2/3 of the way down the road that it got really bad and we're starting hearing loud bangs of rocks on unknowable things underneath the van. We had a mile left to go on that road. Tim actually had to get out and move large branches away from the road. And no cell phones in the car. Yikes! Even the kids were getting a little worried. We did get back home. They're never going to let me forget asking to drive down that road.
Zachary and I did a little reading while Tim took Jeremy out in the canoe for a little fishing. The sky was turning ominously dark and strange. We went in for dinner - Mom fixed a great ham dinner with baked sweet potatoes and salads. I love the fact that my kids will finally eat salad!
Things had cleared up enough after dinner to go back out fishing, this time with all four of us plus Goober in the boat. There was a beautiful rainbow over the lake. We didn't catch anything, and we started to hear thunder. So, we headed BACK to the cabin.
We rounded out the night by playing a new card game that Tim had read about in a book - 31. It's a little like our old standby, Penny in the Pot.
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