OK people, this isn’t funny at all!  It’s one thing to kidnap me, but leave my cousin Roulf alone.  This is the first year his Mum let him go to the lake and what happens?  Someone has to kidnap him.

I’d like to know why it is that whenever someone see’s a gnome, they think they have to kidnap us.  Roulf, if you are reading this, wherever you may be, don’t worry.  I will rescue you.

Look closely at this picture.  If you’ve seen him, please let me know as soon as possible.  I don’t have a lot of money because I only get a small weekly allowance, but somehow I’ll find enough money to pay you if that that is the only way his Mum can get him back.

You may be laughing now, but you won’t be laughing when I find out who took him!  Don’t mess with my friends.

We got back on Saturday from our annual family get together at the lake.  What a blast we had!  I just love spending time with all my cousins and I think they really like me because we played together a lot.

Of course as usually happens every time we get together, the first thing someone has to do is kidnap me.  I don’t know what’s so funny about that but I just secretly smile and let them have their way with me.  This year they had to sneak into Mum and Pop’s cabin, kidnap me and duck tape me to a tree.  (Where is the humor in that?)  Then they take a picture and demand a ransom which Mum and Pop ignore.  To make them feel good, I beg and plead for freedom and they start to feel bad and finally let me go.  Same old thing every year.  You’d think it would get old but NOOOOOO!!!  Once we get that behind us we can finally get down to having fun.

My cousin Roulf’s Mum let him come to the lake this year.  If was fun to have someone my size to play with especially in the sand.  Roulf weighs a lot so he can’t swim without a life jacket on so mostly we played on the beach.  Roulf and I played a lot with Maverick.  We let him cover us up with sand.  Sometimes he’d try to cover up our heads with sand but when I told him we couldn’t breathe, he stopped doing that.

In the water they had this really big water slide and everyone climbed up it and slid down it.  I wanted to go down to but Mum said I better not because I’m little and it was really big.  My Mum went down the slide.  She was scared the first time but after that she wasn’t scared any more. 

This picture is of my Uncle Lloyd.  He’s getting old like Mum but still went down it and didn’t even hurt himself.  Just look at that landing.  I laughed so hard when he did that.

We finally made it back home and what a great time we had.

I’m not sure we’ll take Grace along again.  She just doesn’t get what this is all about.  She complains a lot.  At times she drove me crazy having to share the back seat with her.

I’m unpacked, but Mum told me we are going again in a few weeks.  This time we’re going to the family get-together at the lake.  I can’t wait.  I get to see all my family members, sunbath, eat and just relax.  I think I’m going to buy one of those inflatable rafts so I can lounge around in the water.  I never learned how to swim but Mum says that will help me stay afloat.  Sounds like fun.

I’ll take pictures and share the fun things I do.