But what will the Children think?

Jim Larson and his delightful daughters Emma (left) and Megan.

A wonderful weekend...notwithstanding some pretty mediocre weather.

Leah and Chris got in on Thursday afternoon. I took them over to the Smith's where they are housesitting and I think they are managing to tough-it-out. Beautiful home in the meadow by Brotherhood Bridge. Huge deck with a hot tub and great grill. Fantastic garden. The use of a car.

Jim and his daughters Emma and Megan got in on Thursday evening and on Friday we all walked up Perseverance Trail to the glory hole. I am optimistic that Jim's gals will look back on the hike fondly - at some point in the hopefully not-too-distant future. However I am ethically bound to report that their initial reaction was more like "Why is this guy taking us on this Death March?"

Leah and Chris on the Perseverance Trail. They like to hike!

On Saturday we had a picnic at Sandy Beach and last night a BBQ at Doug and Alison's place. It was all great fun and I've got enough pics for several installments on the blog.

John and Shelly Manguso's daughter, Genoa, stopped-by Sandy Beach. She's working TWO jobs downtown this summer!

"And everytime another one of dad's old friends shows-up, they start telling the SAME story all over again. And then they all laugh like they've never heard it before."

Today, I offer a few pics of the kids and young adults in attendance. I start with them for two reasons: 1) The pictures of the youngsters - unlike the pictures of their parents - require little in the way of Photoshop touching-up; and 2) The thing that struck me most about the whole weekend was the delightfully bright, witty, polite and sociable offspring in attendance - under what, for them, must have been very trying conditions.

Eric's wonderful daughter, Clare. I shared lodgings with Eric on several occasions at school. The poor girl...

Julia and Ralph's son, Devon. He is studying aeronautical engineering. I can only imagine what he thought of us...

While each of them is intimately familiar with the foibles and shortcomings of his or her own parents, it must nevertheless be quite a shock to deal with a whole herd of these aging boomers at the same time. All the youth demonstrated tremendous patience.

Can you imagine what they're going to have to put-up with twenty years from now? God help them...