About once a year we take a mini-vacation with Aaron's side of he family. Almost always it is a camping adventure - and it is always the highlight of the kid's summer. First of all nothing soothes Punk's soul like nature - especially water. He needs it. He can watch a lone water strider for hours, or find signs of life in the most unlikely places (this trip yielded, one sheild bug, a slug, 22 snails, an egret, a bald eagle, three jumping fish, a whole sac of spider eggs, four moths. six ducks, a flock of geese, and about 15 tiny translucent leaches of some sort - the kid was in heaven). For Kooka there is the constant commotion - the chance to help grandma, take walks with the aunts, swim until her fingers look "old" and stay up as late as she possibly can.
And then of course - OF COURSE - there are the Uncles.
Both kids love hanging out with their crazy, silly, slightly obnoxious uncles. Punk even got them to pose for a photo for his Weeping Uncles Blog (if you haven't been - follow the link from Weeping Rhinos - and don't forget to vote.) Punk and Kooka love trading smack talk with Uncle Rascal, Uncle Pseudonym and Uncle Cares-A-Lot. And the best part is that when the smack talk and pillow fighting are over - the uncles still share their cookies, and volunteer to sleep in the tent.
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Leave it to Punk to find all of those animals
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