Fourth of July

so yesterday was july 4th!! this was the first july fourth that i have spent up at our cabin in years, so it was very enjoyable. the first thing of note that happened was when i went out to the dock to just relax in the sun and listen to some tunes, i set my ipod down to straighten my towel. first mistake: never set an ipod down on a dock... yep thats right my ipod fell in the water. i jumped in the water and grabbed my ipod, miraculously it still worked!! the ipod that survived an entire winter in the snow also is tough enough to survive under water!! unfortunately i think that the water just hadn't soaked in all the way, because an hour later it died... R.I.P. i pod.... RIP....

the next exciting thing that happened was that we went out on our boat to watch the fireworks. we drove to spicer and turned off the boat.. layed down and enjoyed the nice summer breeze and realized how much nicer this was than parking 2 miles away and battling crowds in Minneapolis. after the show however we tried to start our boat.... nothing. we tried again.... nothing again. (this has happened before last year with gabby kaija aaron and ian) so here we are stranded in the middle of the night in the middle of a lake filled with zooming boats everywhere. fortunatley we found some nice people to tow us. so there it is... a very memorable fourth of july :-)

Michael

PS

it turns out that the only thing wrong with the boat was that the emergency safety button got switched... probably when emma was pretending to drive the boat....