Having Too Much Fun

I see that my last post was 8 days ago.  We are having fun...Northwoods style.  There was a 3 day Birding and Nature Festival at Lake Superior that we attended.  With 100 workshops from which to choose, we had a difficult time deciding.  A few highlights:  seeing a flock of trumpeter swans (the big white ones) on the water and in flight.  Who would think those big things could fly? *  At 8 am one morning there was a very dense fog which got worse the closer to the Lake we got. Case and I found ourselves in a kayak on Lake Superior paddling away from shore into the mist.  No land in front.  No land behind.  Only fog.  The other participants in their kayaks didn't seem worried at all.  But here we all were - blindly following the lead kayak (literally).  After 100 yards or so a peninsula was in site. We beached and explored an estuary.  (Look it up.) We went birding and dragonfly hunting in other workshops. This is the type of thing that I want to do in retirement.  To be able to take 3 days from the usual routine and do something you want to do.