One of the rites of late summer in recent years has been a trip to a friends’ lake house northeast of Scranton (in Waymart) for an overnight. Good food, good friends, lots of lake action—it’s always a blast.

Below are some photos from this year’s fun.

And we all decided that one night was so much fun that we’d like to do it for a whole week, together, in a house on the Outer Banks. The scouting, evaluating, and negotiating has begun. We’ll see if the fever breaks.