Summer~ Week 5

Swany Reunion

 Blue Mountain Retreat~ Swany Reunion

 "Where kids entertain themselves"  

 

The Swany reunion kicked off in Chimacum, WA.  What might you do in Chimacum?  Nothing!  We enjoyed being together.  This house was awesome!  It was huge, tons of property and no one but ourselves for as far as the eye could see.  We could yell, scream, and laugh as loud as we wanted, bothering only ourselves.  Which we did, a lot.

The coolest part of the house was that it had hidden tunnels and slides through out the house.  The kids went crazy crawling through the mazes popping up in different parts of the house.  They literally were running around in  the walls of the house.

 

 

The Block Room

 The block room was one of the favorite rooms in the house.  It was connected to the house via the narrow hall passage and had a trap door that lead to the garage via slides.  Everyone enjoyed building and tearing down the blocks.

The kids wanted to sleep in the block room so every night beds were built out of the blocks and arranged to their liking.

 

Block wars

The garage was converted to a play room.  There were scooters, bikes, roller skates, balls, pickle ball, and of course the slides.  Pretty much mayhem at all times.

 

The grounds were huge and this field was were we played some competitive kickball!


The official photos of the group:

Grandpa and Grandma with the Grand kids (All 14!)

The only pic of Laura I got!

The Cousins

The boy cousins

They have to stick together there are so few of them!

 The original sibs

 Lots of swimming!

 

 Ferry ride

Port Townsend 

We spent one afternoon walking around Port Townsend.  Yesterday Julia came home with a little essay she wrote about it.  Sums it up quite nicely. :)