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Zach and I were running around over the weekend picking things up and dropping things off. As we were driving around I pointed out several interesting (or so I thought) things to him - all 4 years of him.

"Hey buddy - there's a backhoe" (he's mad for construction and rescue vehicles)

"Hey buddy - there's a police car"

"Hey buddy - there's a golf course"

After that one - he hit me right in the gut.

"I know that," he said, "I already know everything."

And at only 51 months old.

Good for him.

Almost famous

One of my June posts is about the Coventry Street Fair.

Well, unbeknownst to me, while we were walking around, this picture was taken and published in Cleveland's Free Times. It's billed as Ohio's largest news, arts& entertainment weekly. Except that there's only one more issue left before it merges with Scene Magazine.

That's not really the point. This is. Remember to click the image to make it larger.

Relaxing over the weekend

After flying out to Seattle and back in 2 1/2 days, we headed north to Michigan for the weekend. That made four states for me on Friday (I changed planes in Minneapolis).



We spent Saturday walking around the Ann Arbor Art Fair and had a great time. The show is enormous and we didn't even see half of it despite our best art-seeing efforts.

Nancy bought a beautiful bracelet and there was plenty of people watching (my favorite thing to do).





Out to dinner with the kids on Saturday was great fun and they got ice cream. Luckily there were no obvious foot-fetishists around.



Early on Sunday I squeezed in a round of golf. Then the weather cleared and we spent the afternoon on Walled Lake.

What kid doesn't like playing with lake sand and beach toys?



Then the most fun thing happened. Nancy went tubing. It's unfortunate that there are no pictures of her. I really don't like to dissapoint you all, but I was on the tube right next to her and couldn't really manage the camera at that time. We laughed. We screamed. We spit on each other (we're not really into that, but it happened. A lot).

Then the kids and I swam out to this water-trampoline/slide thingy. Sophia recently passed her deep water test and did great. Zach tried his hardest but needed some help.





To no one's surprise, the kids fell asleep within minutes of starting our drive home. And they slept for nearly 3 hours. I loved when Sophia woke up crankily (it's a word) and vehemenlty denied napping. So I told her that I know she didn't nap. Especially for the last few hours.

What a weekend.

You know what you never see?

So here's a decent looking older guy at one of our delicious ice cream shops.



Here's the part you never expect to see. He has a foot fetish - for his own foot! Check out his ankle bracelet and three - yes - one - two - three - toe rings. I have witnesses - a doctor, a lawyer and a wife.

But I'm his girlfriend

So the phone rings this morning at 5:55. At first we couldn't figure out what was making that noise. Once we realized it was the phone, our first thought was "uh oh." And it only got better from there.

Nancy answers and it went like this:

Nancy - (groggily) "hello"
Caller - Is Doug there?
Nancy - who's calling?
Caller - This is Sherrie. We're supposed to meet for coffee.
Nancy - hold on
Nancy - to me - what's going on?
Doug - I have no idea
Caller - I'm his girlfriend and we're supposed to meet for coffee.
Nancy - you have the wrong number. Click.

So that's great. Some random crazy woman calls and even more randomly gets my name right. And then asks my wife (who I'm laying next to) to meet me for coffee.

Of course I took her name & number from the caller ID and Googled her, confirming that I have absolutely no idea who she is. It wasn't the California realtor with the same name. And no one else really matched with her.

And that's how Saturday started.

Dolphins Spotted!

During our July 4 Holiday Visit / Vacation, it wasn't really that hard to find the dolphins that recently made the Shrewsbury River home (ABC News covered it here).

The kids were so excited to see them and could barely contain themselves.

I found a new favorite "destination" sticker but didn't have a chance to buy one.

If anyone has a chance, please send me one. This really made me laugh, 'cause I remember calling the "bridge + tunnel" guys bennies.

I guess since McCloone's RumRunner got a plug on TV, I'll follow suit and make it seem like a bigger deal than it really is by plugging it here too. It really was quite a site to see all the boats and people on shore with video cameras, binoculars and media types covering this story.

Binoculars. Binoculars. I thought I saw them a minute ago.


Aside from the marine biology lessons, there was plenty of time for fun and swimming, as evidenced here.


All in all, it was a great trip. Wouldn't you say?