Vacation Day #15 : Friday, July 5 : We were not ready to give up the vacation yet. Even after partying all day on Friday we figured there was room left for a party on Saturday too. We decided to throw a pool party for all of our friends on this very hot day. In fact, it was so hot that the water in the swimming pool was over 90 degrees. It hardly felt cool to get into the pool at all. Terry and I tried an experiment and dumped 20 bags of ice into the pool. An entire bag of ice would melt, literally, within 30 seconds. After all of that it, maybe, dropped the temperature one degree.

It was a great pool party. We played a lot of very competitive table tennis and the kids played both in and out of the house. In the evening I showed "Fight Club" on the big screen to a large group of teenagers. It was a great day of fun. Here are a few pictures I snapped from that day.

Matt seems to have a day of it as Lisa looks on.


Patty hates to have her picture taken, which is why I posted it on the internet. Enjoy.


A great action shot of Cole leaping into the arms of his mother, Dianne Brown. This was a difficult day because Cole finally learned how to swim....without a life-jacket. He kept many people busy most of the day.


Alex and friends had fun doing some small fireworks in the yard.


Like father like son, Marty and Isaac.


Michael and Evan, consider yourself embarassed.


Andrew and Cole.


Vacation Day #16 : Saturday, July 6 : Sunday. And then we rest.

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