A Wet Welcome Back To The Lake

6:20

Up before 5:00 for some reason, just could not get back to sleep so I came downstairs, laid on the couch for awhile but  couldn't sleep, wanted coffee, so here I sit, in utter darkness, with coffee and computer, waiting for daylight.  I did walk outside and it's drippy, from quite a bit of rain last night, about 3/4's of an inch, so everything is wet.  I did see the moon peaking through the clouds and the lake is barely visible at this hour, just foggy.

We did our usual drive from Darien, leaving early, by 7:00 and both Marisa and Mitch and parents got up to say good bye.  It's their first day of school so they were excited though they would not admit it. Our ride was though mostly overcast skies, little traffic, and a bit of rain, uneventful which is the best.  I have to admit I am not as psyched about the beauty of the drive as I used to be.  After so many rides on the same Interstate, you just want to get to your destination.  We got home in seven hours, right around 2:00 with a couple of stops.

Unpacking was easy, two bags and we were in.  Both of us were surprised at how warm it was, and we even worked up a sweat just watering the plants with lake water, as it had not rained since we left.
Because it was so warm, we both ended up out on the dock, sunbathing and swimming  a couple of times just to cool off.  The water was amazingly clean, little if any algae, which is encouraging.

Our good Turkish friend Sami finally got in touch with me after playing phone tag for a couple of days. As a graduation present for his daughter, he is taking her on an extensive tour of the world.  We first heard from him in South America, the second or third part of his trip.  He's now on the West Coast, traveling by car and will  be in NYC this weekend.  We have been trying to get him to come to the lake so he will fly in from NYC this weekend for a couple of days.  Both of us are excited to see him and his daughter, and we hope to pay back some of the hospitality he showed us when we were in Turkey four years ago.  He literally took care of us for five days, driving us from Istanbul to his house on an island off of Turkey called Cunda, then to his olive farm south of Izmir.  He more then took care of us and we want to show him the same kind of hospitality.

We did not feel much like cooking after our travels, so we had home fries and eggs for dinner and caught up on some of our TV shows, Breaking Bad in particular, which had, I might add, an amazing twist for Walt's brother in law.  It gets better and better.