And Now: The 2005 Round Lake Awards:

Award for Most Vomit Left in a Campsite goes to Ryan. The Award for Most Photogrenic When Passed Out goes to Murray and of course the Lifetime Award for Most Food Cooked by a Single Person during a Round Lake Weekend goes to the Immortal Fred.

The Award for Most Stalwart Young Person on an Accidentally Extended Hike goes to the Indomitable Eric, who I will cheerfully go hiking with anytime.

The Award for Most Beautiful Woman in the Entire World goes to (in no particular order) Kathy, Lew, Holly, Kandi, Shelley, Allyson, Trudy, Debbie, Matt's Mum and - of course - Leen. The Award for Person Most Likely to Stick a Camera in Your Face goes to Jeff, John and Steve. The Award for Best Hangover goes - for the 16th consecutive year - to Holly May She Live and Reign Forever. In a surprise upset the Best Kid Award for 2005 goes to Tasha Boyes, who was able to edge out long-time-Best Kid award winner Kirsten Van Leen because of her tireless efforts in the kitchen (Given her impending jump to teenager status we do not expect to see her in this category next year). Runner Ups for the Best Kid Award go to Kirsten, Kieran, Amber and Connor. For the second year running The Steve and Shelley Didn't Fight All Weekend Award goes to Steve and Shelley. The Duncan Boyes Award for Child In That Awkward Transitional Phase of Being Too Old to Compete in the Best Kid Category but Not Old Quite Old Enough to Hang With Teenagers Goes to Melany, who was excellent company nonetheless. Best Teenager Award goes to Krista, who didn't come, and who managed to avoid burning down the house while we were gone. Runner Up in the Best Teenager Award goes to Duncan. Award for Young Person Who We Remember as a Cute Little Gaffer and Who Surprises Us by How Large He Has Become goes to Sean for the fifth year in a row. Stop growing, Sean.

The Canoists Voted Most Likely to be Going Backwards award goes once again to John and Steve, who reprised their 1994 Gold Medal performance from Paint Lake. Not surprisingly, Lew Van Robertson was awarded Most Likely to Be Picked First in the Canoe Race Category. In a complete come from behind totally out of the blue surprise victory, Kathy O'Brien won "Nicest Car" award, thanks to her Dad's moment of foolish sentimentality in loaning her the brand new SUV.

Last but not least, The Award for Most Likely to Land on You and Suck Blood From Your Body goes to the Drunk Guy that Murray Picked Up, who shares his award with the hordes of mosquitoes who also infested the campground.

Cheers to all! Let's do this again soon!

Jeff & Kathy