You Need a Vacation

     Vacations are good, and I hope you get to take one this summer.  It doesn't have to be anything spectacular.  In fact, it's better if it's not.  I am recently off a vacation with my folks in Minnesota.  What did I do? 

• Jumped with my kids on a trampoline. 
• Spent hours in a boat trying to entice fish to bite my hook. 
• Ate some of the fish we caught (see picture of fried walleye above).
  
• Slept 8 hours a night. 
• Watched my kids run through a sprinkler.
• Went to Coldstone Creamery with my wife.
• Talked with my dad over a beer (see picture of Premium Grainbelt with fish above). 
• Listened to some music (most recently Local Natives). 

After my vacation, I spent a week with 25,000 teenagers in San Antonio at the National Youth Gathering.  Now I need another vacation.  Oh, well. 

Here's a great post on solitude.