{"id":209,"date":"2009-05-29T10:22:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T15:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=209"},"modified":"2009-05-29T10:28:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T15:28:33","slug":"great-family-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2009\/05\/great-family-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Great family weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend with our kids at Covenant Harbor Bible Camp in Lake Geneva, WI.\u00a0 As they are all located in Chicago, for now, and do not have much time off this was the opportunity to get together.\u00a0 We enjoyed talking, walks along the lake shore, games, reading<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_212\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-212\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-212\" title=\"reading-along-lake-geneva\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2009\/05\/reading-along-lake-geneva-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"Cindy &amp; 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