This was laundry day. We ate breakfast about 8 AM and were on our way to Grand Marais with our laundry shortly afterwards. While I waited for washers to finish and dryers to do their work, Grandpa and Anna bought a few groceries, picked up a prescription for Grandpa, and even brought back some "World's Best Donuts" for a treat.

After the laundry was all folded and stacked in the car, we walked through the Trading Post, and then ended up at the Blue Water Cafe for our lunch. I love the Swedish pancakes that they have there! Anna and I also bought some beautiful stone pendants from John Moos, who has a table right out on the corner sidewalk across from the Blue Water Cafe.

Anna finds climbing on the rocks at Artist's Point to be very fulfilling. (No surprise there.) Since I wanted to check out what was new at the White Pine North Gift Shop, something I always do whenever I am in Grand Marais, they decided to just walk down to the park and left me to meet them there after I did my shopping. We agreed to meet in about an hour.

I got to the parking lot in just over an hour, and then I sat for another hour in the warm sun (there are no benches in the shade) waiting for them to appear. Because I normally amuse myself with my camera, I took a bunch of gull photos. Nothing exceptional, but it was a way to pass the time.

There was a butterfly, too. It is amazing what you will try to photograph if you are just sitting there in the sun waiting. . .

. . .and meanwhile, Anna and her Grandpa were out enjoying the rocks, the flowers, the splashing of the waves on the rocks, etc.

Anna is in her element when she is on the shore, on the rocks, and carrying her camera.

Dinner this evening was in the Diamond Willow Dining Room at Loon Lake Lodge. We invited Marti to join us. This was a reat treat: excellent food beautifully presented, a relaxing atmosphere in the historic lodge, and a lovely lake view out our window.

It wasn't a rosy, beautiful sunset, but we did enjoy some time out on the dock with our cameras, hoping for one. Grandpa and Anna went for an evening paddle after the sun was down. After their return we played games in the cabin until bedtime.