We had our first lake day on July 1st! It wasn't super warm...I think about 73, but the kids still went straight in and swam for almost three hours!
It was the first time we were able to pull out the big mat that the family bought them for Christmas and it was a HUGE hit! They spent two and a half hours straight playing with this thing!
So much fun!
The kayaks were used too, but not as much as the mat. They had a blast with that thing!
Bug had just gotten back from Kenya a few days before so she was still getting over her jet lag and didn't swim as much.
The O family was there with their two girls, the E family with their three kids, and Ms. K and E came too so there were lots of friends to play with.
What a fun day!! It was the perfect start to lake days...or so we thought. The next day all the girls (except K, who was in the water only briefly) woke up with big red bumps all over their bodies. They looked like large mosquito bites. I texted some of the other moms and all but one of the other kids had them. Swimmer's itch. :{ It was bad. They were SUPER itchy for four days before it finally let up. We mixed up some baking soda and water and they used Q-tips to apply it to their bumps multiple times a day. It was pretty miserable.
I read that it is caused by goose and duck poop sitting in hot stagnant water so because this is a little bay area the water flow isn't significant enough to clear it out. I guess our favorite bay is out of commission for the summer! :(
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