It has been over 15 years since someone has drowned at the peninsula but there have been two in the last two days. A 7 year old boy in the waves on beach 2 after the park was closed and a 27 year old man after going for a swim off a sailboat by the North Pier off beach 11.
Trip Log
July 24, 2011
The heat has been pretty much slowing us down. We continue to be active, just not as fast. We built a 'sifter' from hardware cloth and went to beach 1 for some metal detecting. We did find a nice Irish ring and a lot of trash.
July 18, 2011
Saturday we went to Browns for Ryan's Birthday party. He came home from Pittsburgh. Otherwise we continued to recuperate by watching the mass exodus out of the campground on Sunday. We had even used four overflow spots.
July 15, 2011
Today Mike and Jeff and their families returned home and all have arrived safely. Alesa and I spent the day resting and getting things set up for the rest of the summer. Yesterday the kids spent some time here and Jeff and I went for a motorcycle ride to Ripley and back.
July 13, 2011
We are starting to slow down. Monday the kids were off with their families and yesterday Janet, Becca, baby Lola and all the family went to the zoo to visit as Becca and Lola were flying back to Omaha this morning. After the zoo we all went to Georges for a late lunch.
July 10, 2011
Sunday is the last day of this year's Camp NanaPapa. We went shopping this morning for the food for the closing ceremony this evening. You may have noticed that we did a lot of shopping during camp because the refrigerator in the camper is relatively small and we can't stock up.
July 10, 2011
Saturday turned into a very quiet day, the kids didn't even ride their bikes. Aunt Janet, her daughter Rebecca and her daughter Lola came to camp for a visit. Jeff and Danielle arrived this afternoon and Bailey and Bridget spent the night with them at Uncle Bob and Aunt Cathy's.
July 9, 2011
We finally made it to Waldameer on Thursday after 'Mighty Fine' donuts in the morning. Everyone had a great time at both the amusement park and the water park.
July 8, 2011
Thursday my cousin Frank with his daughter Caitlin put his boat in at the marina and took us through the channel to do some tubing as the lake was a little rough. The kids thoroughly enjoyed themselves and Frank even let Bailey drive the boat back through the channel.
July 7, 2011
Wednesday morning we went to breakfast at George's diner (or dinor, if preferred), to Urbaniak's for Smith's bologna and Topp's for groceries. It was supposed to rain (but never did) so we postponed our trip to Waldameer until Friday.