perfect summer day

Yesterday fell under the "perfect summer day" category of life. It's been so sunny and wonderful up here, so Meg and I decided to have a lake day. We packed a picnic and headed up to Martha Lake, which is a tiny, beautiful lake a little north of Seattle. It felt like summer camp. Laying in the grass, laughing at all the 'cool' high school kids, jumping off the dock, swimming around and feeling the back of my legs burn. So wonderful.

I'm just now realizing that this doesn't really have anything to do with food or cooking...We did, however, have a bomb picnic. Hummus, crackers, carrots, watermelon, trail mix and cheese. All our favorite foods.On the way home we were sweaty and thirsty, so we stopped and got a slushy from Chevron. Great way to end out little adventure.

In other news, I'm loving the long, warm summer nights. It's been fun to have different people over for dinner and just sit outside while it slowly cools off and gets darker. It's been a surprisingly wonderful summer so far and it's not even half over!