October 5, 2011

Lev and Grady Build a Raft but the water is cold

Every Memorial Day weekend we would camp at Panorama Point, on Baker Lake, with Craig, Sarah, and Grady. We've known Craig and Sarah since before we had kids, but Grady and Lev became friends when we moved up to Sedro-Woolley. Grady lived in Bellingham and they would get together most weekends for the last two years to go "boffing" (fighting with foam swords). On these camping trips Jaal would hang out with the adults and go hiking, kayaking, hang out, or play guitar but Grady and Lev would be off exploring. May of 2010 they spent most of the weekend on a tiny island just off the campsite, building their own fort, kayaking over supplies, making up stories. In this video, which I think is from 2009,  they built a raft (with some help, I believe) and Lev discovered the water was cold when he tried it out. Grady never minded the cold, and he waded in to pull Lev back to shore. This captures the fun they had together.
It seems like with all of Lev's best friends he would do different things. Kalyn was his local buddy, hanging out at school, after school, playing video games, or whatever, staying at each other's houses. Grady was the weekend friend, boffer, sleep overs, eating bagels, video games, movies, and camping. Zay was his buddy for long imaginary games on the phone, almost daily, bonding in a really deep, weird way.  And then of course he had other groups of friends, but those were the three he hung out with most often and I believe the kids most impacted by his being gone.

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