Monday, July 28, 2008

the past few days

It has been a fun filled, jam packed weekend! We started it off with dinner theatre here.

Nothing like a bunch of girls out on a wild night of Rogers and Hammerstein. Does one ever get tired of "There is Nothing Like a Dame"? I think not. And we got to have boar for dinner! (Aren't you impressed that I didn't say it was "boaring" ?- badump bump)


My sister and my oldest niece were in town, and we did some beaching, which is what those land locked people like to do here. But before one can really enjoy a west coast beach, you need to send the geese on their way. They aren't chased away easily, but we won.

Free to find crabs and clams and other mixed sea creatures. The tide was in so we didn't get to traumatize any sea stars or sand dollars or urchins.

It's like an eye spy game...can you find...snails? mussels? seaweed? barnacles? oyster shell?

Our big news...Jamie and I took out belaying tests. We have discovered indoor rock climbing, and Nanaimo has a great gym. We took a belaying course, and can now belay. I won't tell you we had to take the test twice (apparently we had sloppy technique) because that would just be embarrassing. Next time you're in Nanaimo, come for a climb! I'm hoping that rock climbing is going to be the answer to any possible future (certainly not present) arm flab issues that may arise.

Now it's back to work, looking forward to the upcoming long weekend. My next goal? Updating my header. All in good time, right now I need a popsicle.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

remember me?

Howdy!


I'm kinda thinking it's time to stick my toe back into blog water..it has been a crazy busy time with lots of work and a carefully crafted summer plan, swimming lessons (guess who's swimming?), acting camp,claymation camp, High School Musical Dance camp, figure skating, and bits of chillaxing here and there. For those of you who are worried about my over programed children, I feel the need to mention that, with the exception of swimming lessons, both kids are only enrolled in stuff they have wanted to do. So there. Can you guess what I've been up to?


One thing we haven't had yet is a beach day. there's been lots of poolside time, but no beach day. Maybe this weekend.