Boating, croquet, and ducklings

The last two weeks, we went to the Lodge again, and had a great time boating, playing croquet, finding baby ducks and being with the family! 

In the parking lot, we saw this license plate and had to take a picture.  Underneath "ABEL" it says the "GREEN" mountain state.  :)

We spent a lot of time canoeing, kayaking and paddle boating on Mirror Lake. Here are Mom and Susannah. 

When Mom, Timothy, Susannah and Emily went out in the paddle boat, they found a duckling stuck in the mud on a little island. It was on its back and struggling violently and it couldn't get out of the mud.  We think that it had recently hatched and couldn't keep up with its mother, then hurt its leg when it was stuck in the mud. 

We brought it back to the beach and couldn't figure out what to do with it since we couldn't take it back the lodge and all the vets and animal shelters were closed for memorial day. 
Then Officer Blin arrived! An animal rights man called the police to come pick up the duckling and take it somewhere safe.  Dad found it hilarious that the Lake Placid police would come pick up a duckling, and we all were glad the duckling story had a happy ending.  

On Wednesday, our family went hiking with our grandparents, Aunt Joanna and cousins. We hiked up Mount Joe and it was the perfect hike!  The hike was relatively short and the view at the top was amazing. 

Here are all of us after succesfully climbing the mountain! We were especially proud of Thomas, our 3 year old cousin who climbed it with an arm in a cast and no complaining! Yay for Thomas! :)

Later in the week, some of the kids and Dad played croquet.  Timothy won the game!