We all went to MacKay Cottage Restaurant (their favorite restaurant) for lunch. We put in our order and I helped my nephew color the stuff they give kids. I had the Waldorf Chicken Salad in Croissant and Mango Lemonade. Then I shared my nephew's chocolate chip cookie. We didn't finish it between the two of us. But the meal was yummy.
I drove my nephew home in my car while my sister and her hubby (and the baby) went to the bike store to look for a bike rack. They didn't find any.
Meanwhile, my nephew and I were making fun of the cartoons we were watching. There was one where a little superhero boy was talking to his carrion(?) how he planned to start a fire so that they could escape in under the smoke. And as they were about to get out of the cage, he tells his carrion to be quiet but he himself yelled out, "Mightor!" And we giggled about that and that has been a secret joke between us for the rest of the day.
When my sister got home, we headed to her in-laws home in this beautiful resort, where they live year-long. There were lots of pine trees, it almost looked like Tahoe. The father-in-law was roasting a huge turkey breast and the mother-in-law was preparing the sides. The plan was to go to the pool first though, so I went with them. The in-laws stayed home.
At first, my brother-in-law took my nephew to the big pool and Sam and I took the baby to the baby pool. Sam was holding the baby at the surface while she occasionally moved her arms and legs. Then the big pool was restricted to adults for 15 minutes, so brother-in-law and nephew came over to the baby pool. Sam went to get a floater of sorts for my niece. And soon after she got fitted with it, the big pool was opened to everybody again, so it was just me and Sam. Sam tried to get the baby to float with just the vest, but she was leaning backwards, so Sam decided to take it off. And the baby screamed! We couldn't figure out what she wanted. She screamed when she was taken back to the water, she screamed when we tried to remove the life jacket. She screamed until she was blue in the face. And people around us were watching us and wondering what we were doing to the baby. Finally, Sam decided to find her hubby and the baby screamed when *he* tried to take the life jacket off her. So they decided it was time to go home. They finally got the life jacket off of her but she started crying when she saw me holding it, so I let her hold it until we got to the place where it came from. When we had to take it from her, she started crying and fussing again. I tried to trick her by giving her the bag to hold on to, but it was too heavy. And as I was emptying it to make it lighter, I found her bottle in the bag and that calmed her down.
Back at the in-laws', the kids showered and we had a lovely dinner on the patio with me and the nephew playing a quiet game (first one to talk loses, and his grandpa teasing him to make him talk). After dinner, nephew and I played Scrabble. Actually, it was more like nephew, grandma and Sam against me in Scrabble. Then nephew found a K'nex motorcycle he built and it actually runs if you drag it backward first, so we were playing that on the table. Then, once when he was picking it up from the floor, he hit his head on a chair and we had to put ice on it. He'll probably have a black eye for a while. Towards the end, Sam was doing some research online for coupons for the bike rack, niece was fast asleep on her dad's lap, and the rest of us were watching "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". I hadn't seen the movie before and whatshisname looked kinda cute when he was younger.
It was past 10pm when we said goodbye and headed home.
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