I have a college student

Super busy weekend. Saturday was full up with packing from vacation (about which more later) and driving home thirteen hours. Sunday was Deliver the Kid to College Day. New student checkin, getting her room key, getting her moved in, shopping for some more room "essentials" (does a dorm resident really need a throw rug when her floors are already carpeted?), and home to collapse.

Her classes started today. She's got eight am classes all week, poor thing--she is SO not a morning person. But at least today, she got herself up and was texting from class at 8:15. (Yeah, I know.)

Books are frightfully expensive. I had set up her bookstore cart with her yesterday, to the tune of $560 (and most of those were used books)..but today she tells me the total is nearly $900. Apparently there were three more books she needed.

Vacation

So. Vacation. This is the third time we've gone to stay at a cabin in Northern Michigan -- as far north as you can get in Lower Michigan. If you can find Northport MI on a map, you're close. The cabin belongs to an old friend of mine and his brother, and he has let us use it three times in the last four years (last year we went to Europe).

I call it a vacation in 1980. No internet. No cell service. No cable TV. No broadcast TV either, for that matter. There is a TV in the cabin though, with a VHS player. We used it for the first time this year: we watched several episodes of the Patrick Macnee/Diana Rigg "Avengers". Wow that show is cheesy.

We did a jigsaw puzzle. We made art. We knit some stuff. We cooked our own dinners. I read a ton of books (see my monthly book post). We played some family games. We went to the beach and waded/swam in the cold clear lake. We watched a lot of waves come in, and slept with the windows open listening to the surf.

Best week ever.