Lord of the (Butter)Flies

The questioning of our sanity is all the more justifiable this week than others: we have decided to spend four days camping in the hinterlands of the Upper Peninsula (technically, most of the U.P. is land of the hinter variety) with our young children. And that our good friends Phil and Maria—the parents of two kids the same ages as ours—agreed to join us either make (A) them the most tolerant people in the world, or (B) all of us bat-sh*t crazy. The answer is all of the above.

We survived the first night, and our kids were rewarded this morning with a fun and educational butterfly activity sponsored by an educator from Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources.