Story time...

Story time is still awesome...here are Fiona and Devon reading one of my favourite books...

You can lead a horse to water...

Found this tonight when I almost tipped over their trough. At least they're not drinking out of the toilet though.

Summer Safari

We made it home after our 48+ hour girls getaway. Fiona and I left on Friday morning up to Santa Rosa for a bit of what is called "Glamping" as there was a luxury tent involved...had a safari ride on Friday afternoon, had yummy food served to us...Marshmallows were roasted, wine was drunk (not by Fiona). What a wonderful place...on our tour we saw all sorts of antelope/gazelle/buffaloish things, monkeys cheetas fancy birds, even one gazelle just a few minutes old and trying to stand up. At the end of the evening which involved the feeding of monstrous catfish just near our cabin we went to bed (tired as dogs) listening to the sounds of exotic birds and other creatures talking in the night. We'll have to come back with Devon one day.


Rather than drive home in the heat of the valley we opted to stay between the two places...I would have stopped near the IKEA in Berkley but damn if that exit wasn't meant for me....so we ended up in Fremont and stayed at the holiday inn alongside 880.... but it has a GREAT pool which we lounged in for countless hours...we saw a movie at the mall (hate malls): Mr Poppers Penguins which made Fiona laugh out loud, and slept had breakfast in bed and then swam again before coming home today.

It was really good to be away together...It wasn't the same kind of mothering as the daily grind kind 'twas more relaxed and more joyful.

Happy to be home and looking forward to Devon being back from trip on the Frosti.


Here are some pictures from our trip...

herd of something...

Something extinct in the wild.

A sweet girl rhino.

Fiona and our ride...it broke down near a herd of zebras and we came back in a similar one.

Post safari bliss.

Asleep after a swim....can never get tired of watching her sleep...

love, Louise

Summertime

Summer has arrived with warm weather and odd schedules. Fiona has been able to spend several weekends with her Grammy and Grampy and is working on her behavior. We had to have the talk about what to do when you're feeling WILD recently....

We have been mixing fun local adventures into our days like this trip with a kayak down to our local pond. Rio wasn't quite sure what to do with the boat, but devon and Fiona had a blast.

Devon is away on a ship off the coast of Northern California and so I have given Fiona a bit more responsibility in getting herself moving in the morning. We made this list yesterday and she followed it to the letter this morning. Was sweet to hear her practice violin on her own and all I had to do was put her breakfast on the table before I went to sleep...this bodes well for getting to Kindergarten in the Fall.
Fiona and I are headed off to an overnight Safari tomorrow night so our next post might include wild animals...stay tuned...Love Louise