I returned yes­ter­day from a week long fam­ily vaca­tion on the Pend O’Reille Lake in Idaho. My aunt and uncle own a cabin between Sand­point and New­port. When pos­si­ble, my fam­ily vis­its annu­ally in the sum­mer. It was a great cou­ple of days of swim­ming, tan­ning, and read­ing my large stack of books.

In other news I got a new dig­i­tal cam­era. A Canon Dig­i­tal Rebel XSi. The pic­tures in the post, in addi­tion to being from vaca­tion, were all taken with the XSi and then tweaked a bit in Photoshop.

This is my mom and her dog Sparky.

My niece Sophia pre­pared for her first inner tub­ing excursion.

Panoramic of Lake Pend O’Reille from the dock. Click for a larger version.

This is a shot on the return to Yakima. My dad and I ran out of gas in one of the few areas of Wash­ing­ton with­out cell phone cov­er­age. A local farmer was kind enough to sell us some gas.

That should get every­one up to speed. I’ll be back to my usual blog activ­i­ties and should be updat­ing almost every day.