We spent a few days at the Orvis's camp on Big Moose Lake, and found that one of Ingrid's new classmates lives just 2 miles from there. She came up and spent a whole day with us, and then her younger sister and father came over for dinner that night.
We dropped off both of the girls for a week at Skye Farm. Ingrid is pretty excited in this picture, she was about to go 'off site' for a 4 day long canoe camping trip. Grace is not so excited.
Another picture of Ingrid being very excited.
In August Gretchen went back to work full time, for the first time since before Ingrid was born. Here she about to leave on her first day.
While Gretchen was working, I took both of the girls and a friend each camping for 4 days. We went to Rollin's Pond. Despite the huge number of sites, Rollin's Pond never disappoints. Here is our site right on the water, just before we set up the gear.
One of the days we were there we canoed the Rollins Loop. David was in the canoe with the two younger girls, while the two older girls were in the other canoe on their own. Here we are approaching the passage between Rollin's Pond and Floodwood Pond.
Ingrid and her friend seemed to spend a lot of the trip trying to keep up.
On the way home we stopped at the access road to the Adirondack Lodge so the girls could see the mountains, and so that we could take a picture with the high peaks in the background.
Here is Ingrid on the first day of high school. What a beautiful campus.
Meanwhile, this has become Grace's favorite place, the Hirsch Observatory on the RPI campus. She and David go every Saturday night to help out with public observing and they have both joined the Rensselaer Astrophysical Society.
Grace observing the stars through a 6" reflector telescope.
She also made this interesting collage using her iPod. Pretty neat.
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