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Four high school friends from Iowa and their families met up for the 4th of July in Wells, Maine. Four Iowans + 19 years = 18 people. Needless to say finding appropriate accomodations for eighteen people was tricky. We settled on a condo type place in an unknown-to-me area of Maine (Village By the Sea).

It turned out to be a great time. With all the kids fairly close in age, it was pretty easy to entertain. We mostly went to the beach, the indoor pool and fireworks. Peterson's came from Swisher, IA, Goettsch's from Kansas City, MO, and Rinehart's from Vershire, VT. We didn't do a great job of capturing the adults in pictures, but I guess it's all about the kids anyway....

A couple other shots of Boston Irish Wolfhounds youth rugby practice. We missed most of the "season", but once I found it, I jumped at the chance to get Luke involved. They have a pretty popular and well run program--lots of kids. I love the game, and Luke enjoyed what little he did.