A pictorial summary of our family vacation

The house we rented for the week was right on a lake. This was the view sitting on the deck drinking coffee in the morning.

My father has a new hobby - picking locks. While the rest of us all lounged around on the deck, pop spread out his lock picking tools on the kitchen table. He went down in the garage and rummaged up an assortment of Masterlocks. He picked them.

On Wednesday we opened up birthday presents. Pretty much everybody except me and Mary had birthday presents. Tom received a gift from my dad - a lock picking kit of his very own. Tom is a quick study. He opened up the practice lock that came with the kit in record time and then moved on to the Masterlocks from the garage. 

Now he's graduated to door locks. I have mixed feelings about this.

Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Ella and Jack played a little game they called "William Tell." With an avocado and a rubber-band shooter. My brother decided that eye protection was a must-have so someone rounded up swimming goggles.

Ella received a set of acrylic paints for her birthday. We caught her outside painting while watching Bob Ross videos on YouTube. Turns out she loves Bob Ross. That's why she asked for the paints for her birthday in the first place.

Mom went out and biked 60 miles. Here she is, not by the "Welcome to Canada" placard, you'll notice. She picked a different sign for the photo op.

Pop was very excited to cross the 45th Latitude. In matching hats. There was no official sign, but luckily we found a bar.

The last day. Good bye lake house!