Isabella the Brave has Arrived :-)
Isabella travelled all the way from San Francisco, through Washington to Ottawa this week and I am beyond proud of her - just 9 years old and not a worry in her little head about travelling great distances - so long as there is a price at the end, and what bigger price than three cousins who absolutely adore her - as do Bob and I!
As I'm writing lound crashes and bangs can be heard - they are on their 3rd fort ... Jack's bunk bed is the "frame" and it is getting bigger ... and bigger ... and bigger ... it is so much fun for them and I'm enjoying so much just listening to 4 little people playing so well together. They really do have a ton of fun, between the pool, forts, crafts, movies (Ramona & Beezus is just fab btw!) and just hanging out ... it makes it easy being a mummy :)
We had 4 days of just being us, me and the kids, before Isabella got here, and it was fantastic ... I thoroughly enjoyed it - we did NOTHING ... except for playing Wii and finally finishing all the levels on Mario - it was so intense that Maia became the chef one evening and served us all salami sandwiches, brownies and milk - you have no idea how much fun we had - screaming, shouting and cheering each other on. And when it all became too too much we'd jump in the pool, have some food and move on - Hillarious!!!
Before the 4 day break in visitors, we had Mathilde here for 3 weeks. It was good fun having a teenager in the house, and we learned a lot about what life is like in Denmark these days - good golly it is weird when you say "well when I went to boarding school ... 27 years ago!!!!" ... she's off this year and I envy her - best school year ever :) ... it was a lot of shopping and we are happy to know she went home with lots of new jeans, books and All Stars :)
Now we'll enjoy our wonderful cousin and then we're finally off on our own holiday - we'll be leaving next Saturday for 4 days in Boston, then a few days on Cape Cod and then a week on Martha's Vineyard - I'm secretly hoping for a day-trip to Nantucket - we'll see how Maia feels about the ferry to Martha's Vineyard first :)
No Casper didn't have a haircut - this was one of the guys we met in Park Omega :)
Hope the Summer is treating you well where ever you are - we haven't had many days under 28 degrees this summer and often it has been even hotter and a lot more humid than the other two summers here ... but I am happy to say I have dealt with it much much better than I thought I would and I have finally learned to love the aircon!
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