"Time to Set Sail"

On a recent vacation to beautiful Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, I was on an early morning scouting mission with my partner, third-grader-to-be Shannon Schmitt. She's the daughter of dear friends – like a niece to me – and we were first to awaken and were "checking out" where the gym, coffee shop, pool, game room and other "stuff" was located at the resort where our families spent the weekend.

After completing our reconnaissance mission, as we neared our villa where everybody else was still sleeping, I