Here are some more pictures from camping. Don't we look like we are relaxing.
Here we are sitting on the Muskegon channel watching great big freighter pass by, Jon really likes big things like ships and big trucks and buses and airplanes.
Jon and Jacob and Maria in the Fourth of July bike parade around the campground.
On July 11 Kathy flew out to Dordt College to teach a graduate level course in their education program, and Maria Jon and I went to the airport to see her off. We thought that Jon was with the program, that Kathy was going to fly to Iowa alone, and then the rest of the family was going to drive out the next weekend and join her there for the VanTol Family reunion and Scrabble tournament, which was conveniently scheduled for the same venue. While Kathy was in the check in line the rest of us went to look out the windows at the planes landing and taking off. As a small jet pulled into the Northwestern gate I casually mentioned that that must be the plane mom will be on. At that point Jon decided that he needed to get on that plane also, and took off for the security line and the concourse. I intercepted him just before he ducked under the ropes, but then he started yelling that he was going to go with his mom (in Spanish), and I decided it was probably time to take him home. So we went and said good bye to mom who was still checking her luggage, Jon screaming and trying to get away all the while. We then headed for the parking lot and were almost there, when we were stopped by a very nice security guard who was concerned that I appeared to be trying to escape with an Hispanic child who was screaming for his mother. While I am glad that security is good at doing its job, I am not so happy it was me being detained, and of course I didn't bring along any identification documents for Jon or Maria. So security had to pull Kathy out of line and have her identify her family and promise that I wasn't kidnapping her child before any of us could get on our way. Kathy did manage to just make her flight and we made it home and eventually out to Iowa. I will post pictures of that trip soon.
Here we are sitting on the Muskegon channel watching great big freighter pass by, Jon really likes big things like ships and big trucks and buses and airplanes.
Jon and Jacob and Maria in the Fourth of July bike parade around the campground.
On July 11 Kathy flew out to Dordt College to teach a graduate level course in their education program, and Maria Jon and I went to the airport to see her off. We thought that Jon was with the program, that Kathy was going to fly to Iowa alone, and then the rest of the family was going to drive out the next weekend and join her there for the VanTol Family reunion and Scrabble tournament, which was conveniently scheduled for the same venue. While Kathy was in the check in line the rest of us went to look out the windows at the planes landing and taking off. As a small jet pulled into the Northwestern gate I casually mentioned that that must be the plane mom will be on. At that point Jon decided that he needed to get on that plane also, and took off for the security line and the concourse. I intercepted him just before he ducked under the ropes, but then he started yelling that he was going to go with his mom (in Spanish), and I decided it was probably time to take him home. So we went and said good bye to mom who was still checking her luggage, Jon screaming and trying to get away all the while. We then headed for the parking lot and were almost there, when we were stopped by a very nice security guard who was concerned that I appeared to be trying to escape with an Hispanic child who was screaming for his mother. While I am glad that security is good at doing its job, I am not so happy it was me being detained, and of course I didn't bring along any identification documents for Jon or Maria. So security had to pull Kathy out of line and have her identify her family and promise that I wasn't kidnapping her child before any of us could get on our way. Kathy did manage to just make her flight and we made it home and eventually out to Iowa. I will post pictures of that trip soon.
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