Friendship dancing and air boating

Last week, Vivian helped carry on a tradition that's been going on longer than I've even known her: swing dancing at Friendship Program! Yes, a few stray Lindy Hoppers and member of the Jitterbug "performance team" dropped by to demonstrate their fancy footwork to the good folks up on Maple Street during a lunch break. Most people had to wander back to work (aka "real life"), though Dan Wondra, Linsday and I got to stay until the very end with Vivian, kicking up our feet for Charleston or whatever else we could come up with before the music ended.

Then on Saturday, the Johnson Family spent a little more time taking advantage of the Best Summer Weather Ever down on the Platte River with some mutual friends and co-workers. The whole event was held at a complex of "cabins" and beautiful landscaping owned by the Labedz family, which was open to any member of the family, a few of which we happened to know. The lot of us had chicken and ice cream hanging out on the patio, and then Mr. Labedz dad broke out the air boat to roar a couple of us up and down the river. There's nothing quite like being able to shoot right over a shallow sandbar when you're used to scraping over it with a canoe. Hannah, of course, just had fun running around outside and playing with other kiddos before crashing in our car on the way home.