Back from vacation and completely exhausted ... the cabin and lake were great, wonderful to see my four year-old niece away from her usual urban landscape, surrounded by trees and fish and the occasional snake, in love with the water (especially her new-found ability to 'swim' with an inflatable vest), torturing her uncles, eating far too many sweets (it was her birthday, after all) ... and good to see my mom and my older brother, it was an escape for them too ... and nice to see my sister have the time to read an entire book (even if it was No Logo ), exchanging the couch for a beach chair ... and I got addicted as well, to fleeing the hot city every day, having the refuge of wind and water ... but it was almost two weeks, with extra days tacked onto either side of the lake part ... two weeks of managing a group of people, their planes and trains and other transportation, their eating and sleeping and entertainment ... and while my girlfriend (thank you, Christina) was an abs