End of the swim season!

Wading on what is usually a sandbar out to what we dubbed 'Wolfer Island'

Wolfer Island had a shallow water hot tub

Warming some tacos for lunch in the sun

View from the West end of Wolfer Island

Walking on water

Blossom winning at hide & seek

Dark clouds rolling in that made us briefly evacuate to the main land

The trail out to the river is still very muddy and INCREDIBLY buggy

 

Nathan reading a book on Blossom walk

Swim meet at the Dells

Cousin Isa with us at the terrace

Riding the ferry on the way to Devil's Lake

Obligatory ice cream after the ferry

Elly making sure she is well sunscreened 

Not much beach this year

Tent city the night before the last home meet

Nathan's team meeting before the meet

The Stingrays team meeting

Pit stop at the Kona Ice truck

Working on a painting

Blossom walk in the woods

Snake.

Nathan's last coach-pitch baseball game of the summer

Elly was a heat winner at the Invite in Mt Horeb

Nathan got 6th in the 25 Free

Nathan got 5th in the 25 breast

And 4th in the 25 fly which is actually the 35 meter fly because it's a goofy pool

Elly got 6th in the 50 fly

Pie break in between an orthodontist appointment and gymnastics 

Just making a super creepy Huggy Wuggy mask for a doll

Elly made a toy first aid kit at the library

Wrestling a bear at the library

Hanging out after the Stingrays spaghetti dinner

Working on sewing a huggy wuggy doll costume

Ice cream sandwich at Creekside Scoop

Blossom's first trip to a dog park

Nathan climbing trees at the dog park

Conference Championship meet in Sun Prairie

Nathan wasn't allowed to wear his Pokemon shirt at the meet because the meet official determined it was a tech suit and would make him too fast

Painting nails

Stingrays in the pre-meet parade

Nathan in lane 6 leading off the medley relay.  The livestream got fancier this year.

Nathan in lane 2 in the 100 free relay

Nathan walking out for the free relay

The Stingrays won the conference meet which means a celebration parade!

Nathan in the wagon 

Elly in a truck

Post-parade party at the Legion

And a bunch of pictures from swim meets taken by the official Stingrays photographers....

Sushi at the end of season picnic and awards

Nathan getting a medal and trophy for the team and age group team wins

Elly with her medal and trophy

Nathan with his medal, trophy and 2 ribbons for his relays at conference

Time for the pool party portion of the night

Conga line in the pool