Best friends

In late June, we took our first (short) road trip with two kids, heading up to Lutsen on the North Shore of Lake Superior with Grandma and Grandpa B., Erik, Tami, and Vivian for a long weekend. Unfortunately the weather was cruddy the entire weekend -- until the day we had to drive home, of course! As a result, I did not take many pictures. I do have a video of one cute kid highlight from the weekend: Vivian spontaneously declaring (and Leif enthusiastically agreeing) that she and Leif are best friends. They even repeated the declaration once the video camera was on and topped it off with a whole lot of hugging. This was a very sweet and much appreciated moment of harmony between two cousins who are -- how shall I put it? -- sometimes not *quite* on the same page about what to do and how to go about doing it. Maybe when they are not seeing eye to eye we can show them this video as a reminder that they should be nice to each other since they are, after all, best friends (by their own declaration).