Erik & I met Ben & Pei in Santa Clarita on July 8th. They took me home and then took me to the airport the next day. We went out for Shabu Shabu, which was YUMMY! You drop your meat and veggies into the broth boiling in front of you to cook and then pull them out freshly cooked to dip in sauces with rice. Mmmmmm. . .
Their little darlings, Itchy & Scratchy did just what my pets did when the suitcase came out. . . settled right in. Ha! 
I got home just in time for Peter and Grandpa's Birthday Picnic!
Mom, Noelle, Jackie and I went to Heritage Hill (living history), which was very cool in it's own right... but we also got to see the Budweiser Clydesdales while we were there!
It was so good to be in the county! Fun at Sunset Park. . . tiny glimpse of mom's yard. . . muskrat on the pond. . . the pond after a rain (it rained at least once briefly every day for about the first week I got to Wisconsin--how I've missed rain!!!). . . Noelle, Jess & I had a Girls' Night when Pete went to camp at Lake Ellen; "Bucket List" and pizza!
On June 21st, I picked up a Very Sleepy Erik from the Appleton airport. We drove through Point (Erik napped while I closed bank account and got to see a couple of people--next time we need more time there!) and up to Rhinelander, mostly as a thank you to our friend Bill who was cat-sitting for us and is obsessed with the Hodag!! Who knew that anyone outside of Wisconsin had ever HEARD of the Hodag?!?
The next day we took a tour of Lambeau field with Jackie--it was actually lots of fun and very interesting!
April, Ben, Don & Shirley arrived that night (no, I'm not going back and filling in dates). We went out to dinner and stopped to see a gorgeous sunset before heading to Sturgeon Bay. 
We went to the public museum in Sturgeon Bay with the Coffins ; it was interesting and we got to play with all the toys!
We had a picnic at mom's, joined by the Coffins when they returned from seeing the American Folklore Theatre performance "Lumberjacks in Love." We played the lawn game that has so many names, most of which aren't very polite, and had a campfire--Erik had his first s'more--and ended the evening over cards.
We went up to Bjorklunden to watch Door Shakespeare perform "Midsummer Night's Dream", which was well done and hilarious!! Ben & Pei flew in earlier that day and drove up to join us (you can see them munching on Dal Santo's gnocchi, which Ben could not bear to miss).
John took us out on the boat! Erik got to see the shipyard, the canal and lighthouse from the water; then we went back toward Potawatomi Park and swam off the boat. Erik's first introduction INTO Lake Michigan was a definitive jump-in-dash-out experience, but he warmed up to it later in the trip. ;-) Calvin and Claudia both got turns driving the boat and "manning the canon" (yes, Erik shot the canon too!)
Here ends the first installment. ;-D
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