Last weekend was full of fun. First, on Friday night, Alek had a sleepover birthday party at his friend Robby's house, where he stayed up ALL night long. He ended up sleeping from about 10am - 3pm on Saturday. Gary and Ben and I went out to Cameron Village and had dinner at the Village Deli and then went over to the Great Outdoor Provision Company. Ben had won a $20 gift certificate from there from the Rock Climbing event. He picked out a new kite! It's very small and lightweight.
Then, on Saturday night, we had our friends the Blackshear's and the Matza's over for a Wii party. Gary made his 'famous' ribs, and they were delicious. I made brown rice with aspargus and cashews, and a Black Russian Cake. Yep, it had Kahlua and Vodka in it. Isabel brought flan, and Mary brought oatmeal butterscotch cookies, and it was fantastic. We had fun bowling and playing tennis. The really good news is that it forced me to clean up the playroom even more and now it looks really nice in here.
Then on Sunday we went out to enjoy the gorgeous weather. It was about 65 degrees, sunny, and a little breezy. So we headed out to Bond Park in Cary and Gary and Alek played football until Alek took a bad catch and sprained his finger. Ben and I put together his new kite. What fun! It has two strings, and is like a trick kite ... when you pull on one string the kite goes whizzing in one direction and when you pull the other it flips the other way. We did a lot of crashing into the ground, but we were getting better after a couple hours. The breeze was intermittent too, so a steadier breeze would have helped. It will be a great kite at the beach.
Since then, we've gotten back in our normal routine, but I just let Chase in from outside and it's SNOWING again ... geez, just a bit of snow and school will probably be cancelled again for tomorrow ... grrr... I need to get work done!
And for my friend Reggie ... here's my beautiful picture of Peggy's Cove in Nova Scotia, taken in 2007:
And me on the ferry in the harbor in Nova Scotia:
1 comment:
Wow! What a fun weekend Marna:) I sure wish I lived close enough to try that Black Russian cake, Yum!
Ben, look at you go with the rock climbing! Keep up the great strides okay?
The pictures of Nova Scotia are beautiful Marna! I hope it all works out for us to go and see it. We are still trying to figure out some stuff right now. We have two other trips this year so the budget is what will come into play. Take Care my friend
Reggie
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