Wrapping up the weekend

Crazy family, originally uploaded by Michael Shattuck.

We're wrapping our weekend at our wonderfully gracious friends' lake house. Before we hit the road we wanted to take a picture to commemorate our time together. Honestly, this shot couldn't sum it all up more!! I love it!!

It's been a great time. I can't tell you how relaxing it is to drink a cup of hot coffee out on the patio, overlooking such a serene view, listening to the birds sing. It's wonderful.

The wonder turned to adventure last night. As I was laying in bed trying to fall asleep there came a knock on the door. My sister and daughter enter the room and anxiously tell us how there is a BAT flying around in the house!!

Have you ever seen The Great Outdoors with John Candy and Dan Akroid (don't know how to spell those names for sure...and not looking it up)? There's a scene where those guys are "working together" to get a bat out of the cabin they're all staying in. Well, that was pretty much the scene here last night. I've never seen such precision flying! The thing went swooping through the house, performing countless fly-bys what seemed to be inches from our faces. I guess his sonar had recently been fine tuned!

The excitement ended as the bat flew into a utility room upstairs. We have no idea how it got in...but it seems that it found a way out in that room. I scoured it with a butterfly net in hand, hoping to find it and set it free. But no dice...the bat left the building. I even went back in again this morning looking for our little flying friend and came up short.

Oh, the excitement...the adventure of it all. What a weekend! If you're reading friends, thank you so much for letting us be here this weekend. You are dear people to minister to us that way!!