We again slept in til around 830 this morning. Woke up and had a great breakfast of fruit and waffles and bacon. Then it started trying to rain, with intermittent thunder. So we stayed in and played cards at the lake house. Just what I needed since I was dead tired from the last several days. One would think that since I'm on vacation, it would be all fun and games and lollygagging with no cares in the world. That's absolutely correct. However, all this fun is a lot more than I'm used to having, and I'm bloody tired!

We made some turkey sandwiches for lunch, and the skies cleared up so we headed into Couer d'Alene to do a little touristy type stuff. So we piled into Bills boat and cruised into town in style. We stopped in at a glass blowing shop and watched a couple of local artists blow up some glass pumpkins. They did it so nonchalantly. Just working with the molten glass like it couldn't possibly melt their fingers off and set their skin on fire. Couer d'Alene has a neat little promotion going on, and every street corner has a unique fountain put upon it. I guess in the end of the summer they auction them off and give the money to charity. In any case, it made downtown Couer d'Alene a treat.

We shopped around at more little artsy fartsy stores and my dad got a woven basket for his new house, and Stephanie got some more postcards to send off. Then we got some ice cream, and then departed the city. On the way back Bill took us on a little visual tour of all the nice lake houses. It was cool to see the different styles of architecture. One of the local golf courses even has a floating green the golfers have to hit onto, and then take a boat out to putt!

Coming back to the cabin, we figured out that we would need to make margaritas with rum for drinks. After we accepted that happy fact the men split off to go move rocks. Actually, Bill has a fire pit he built below his deck with benches made out of large stones. Somehow one of the benches fell over in the middle of winter, and he needed a few strong backs to help set them upright. We had tried yesterday to do just that, but we weren't ready and dropped a stone on Bill's foot and cut open his toe. So today we came prepared, with shoes. The benches are now both in operation, and no more toes were injured in the process.

After moving rocks, Dad and Bill decided to take a quick kayak trip across the bay. When they were about halfway across, I realized that Dad and Bill both had their shoes and wallets and watches on, and I fervently hoped an errant jetskiier would come tip them over. Alas, my hopes were to no avail and they traversed the bay quite quickly, and then headed back in time for dinner. We had bbq chicken and wild rice and a ceasar salad.
After dinner we played Hearts. It was a good time of joking and goofing around, but we were all so tuckered we headed off to bed around 930. Once again, I tried to post last night, but this time the laptop battery wasn't cooperating. So I had to charge it up over night, and make Stephanie cranky that we couldn't please our fans.