Well, Nathan did have lots of fun at Day Camp on Wednesday. In fact, the highlight of the day was when he purchased his very own pocketknife at the Trading Post. I was a little frightened of what the consequences of such a purchase could bring. Burke, on the other hand, was very excited that Nathan had made such a great buy. (Burke feels about knives the way I feel about shoes--you can never have too many).
Anyway, Nathan wanted to try his knife out on something that he wouldn't get in trouble for, so we decided to go fishing Thursday evening after dinner. We had a lot of fun, but caught mostly minnows.
Each of the kids and I caught at least one fish, but poor Burke was so busy tying on hooks, baiting them and then removing the fish that he didn't really get a chance to catch anything. (I wasn't touching them!)
After a while Annika and Adrienne got tired of waiting five seconds for a fish to bite, so they decided to go throw rocks into the water. That didn't help the fishing much, but we all had a good time anyway.
We didn't leave until after dark. Nathan did get an opportunity to use his knife to clean the one fish that was considered large enough to keep. He was thrilled.
Burke got another chance to redeem his fishing failure on Thursday by taking the boys fishing again on Saturday. They went with a friend from work who has a boat. They didn't have much luck, but did get to see some beautiful scenery and the boys dined on the poor guy's cookies. They caught one fish that was a pretty good size. We will be eating him and the other small guy for dinner tomorrow.
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