Friday. I just realized that since I stay up so late posting these things, the day on the post is wrong for the actual events. But you've figured that out.
Breakfast on the terrace. What? We're eating outside? Well, yes, whenever we can. It wasn't as warm today as the previous few days, but since our terrace is so protected, it gets W A R M and it is very sunny. So Werner put up the second umbrella, which was great until the breeze blew it over - twice! But we got through breakfast: pancakes with initials and/or chocolate chips, strawberries, apricots, syrups. Pretty filling if I say so myself.
Then the boys went to do the recycling and the girls went to the supermarket and then the kids were on their own for a while (iPads, electrogear - it was unbelievably quiet) while I got the final unpacking put away . Seems time for that is scarce.
But the time flew by - lunch of MeeMaw's famous grilled cheese sandwiches and then off to Circus Belly! Cirque du Soleil it is not, but charming in its own way. Of course, we took the hard way there - a bike trip. About 45 minutes through back roads and little paths and along a few fields of wheat and by the railroad and stop for an ice cream and then the circus.
What a hoot. We thought we could pay with our bank card and forgot our own rule: it's cash on the barrel head here. We had to borrow back from the kids!!!
It hasn't changed much - there's still the amazing guy balancing on the multiple rolling cans, the flame thrower, the lions and tigers, the alligators and snakes, the camels (they still stink) and the plate twirler. Some parts seemed a bit less refined - the chimp kept swiping a hand at the yipping dog who wouldn't go sit in his place, for instance!
On the way back we stopped to pick up pizza since there was little time left for cooking. (Waiting outside, Kenley and I saw a horse-drawn wedding carriage. Cool.) Hunter and Kenley had eaten Bratwurst at the circus and they all shared two packs of Sour Spaghetti (sour! and we read later 1000 calories per package! Ow!) Besides salad and pizza, they bit into fruit and scavenged cake from the day before. I'm still getting used to how much they can eat these days. A LOT.
Then scrub teeth and story time. Tomorrow is a big day - we'll get together with Peggy and the girls (Wolfgang is off gliding in France) and do our Ropes Course. Maybe swim. Definitely grill hamburgers!
Breakfast on the terrace. What? We're eating outside? Well, yes, whenever we can. It wasn't as warm today as the previous few days, but since our terrace is so protected, it gets W A R M and it is very sunny. So Werner put up the second umbrella, which was great until the breeze blew it over - twice! But we got through breakfast: pancakes with initials and/or chocolate chips, strawberries, apricots, syrups. Pretty filling if I say so myself.
Then the boys went to do the recycling and the girls went to the supermarket and then the kids were on their own for a while (iPads, electrogear - it was unbelievably quiet) while I got the final unpacking put away . Seems time for that is scarce.
But the time flew by - lunch of MeeMaw's famous grilled cheese sandwiches and then off to Circus Belly! Cirque du Soleil it is not, but charming in its own way. Of course, we took the hard way there - a bike trip. About 45 minutes through back roads and little paths and along a few fields of wheat and by the railroad and stop for an ice cream and then the circus.
What a hoot. We thought we could pay with our bank card and forgot our own rule: it's cash on the barrel head here. We had to borrow back from the kids!!!
It hasn't changed much - there's still the amazing guy balancing on the multiple rolling cans, the flame thrower, the lions and tigers, the alligators and snakes, the camels (they still stink) and the plate twirler. Some parts seemed a bit less refined - the chimp kept swiping a hand at the yipping dog who wouldn't go sit in his place, for instance!
On the way back we stopped to pick up pizza since there was little time left for cooking. (Waiting outside, Kenley and I saw a horse-drawn wedding carriage. Cool.) Hunter and Kenley had eaten Bratwurst at the circus and they all shared two packs of Sour Spaghetti (sour! and we read later 1000 calories per package! Ow!) Besides salad and pizza, they bit into fruit and scavenged cake from the day before. I'm still getting used to how much they can eat these days. A LOT.
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