“Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.” — Alex Haley
It's hard to believe this is Graham's seventh summer to come to our boat in Ithaca. He has transformed from a little toddler to a lanky young man. We've been tracking the kid's growth on the wall in our stateroom since 2019 and he has grown over 12" in that time.
His interests have changed and grown too. He's slowing out growing some of our regular places to visit. The weather didn't cooperate while Graham was here to do some of the things we'd planned, but we all seemed to have a great time. The only sunny day we had the smoke out of Canada made it nearly impossible to be outside and the other days were wet and cold, but we made the best of it and found other things to do. We visited the Sciencenter, rode bikes, did some experiments, built a Lego robot, watched movies, played video games, played Uno, ate a lot of food and played soccer every chance we had. Overall it was a lot of fun.
This is how a sunny day on the lake looks when it's covered with smoke from Canada.
But there's always something interesting on the Ipad...and sometimes laying on the bunk relaxing is the best thing to do.
Every change we got we went out and played soccer. We live in a park so that was an easy thing to do.
Riding bikes around our park is fun too.
But when it was raining...we did experiments. We made moon dough and Oobleck. Both were fun and used things we already had onboard.
One morning we went to the Sciencenter. Graham has always loved this place, but I think he has almost outgrown it.
I think Graham's favorite thing to do is eat and we had some good stuff while he was with us.
We had to make him play Uno with us the first night...after that he was hooked. We had a great time and laughed a lot.
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