So, the place itself ok, but the excitement of the week for me has been Emmy's new friend, Sara. Since she has been a big girl, she's never really had any friends other then her sisters, so it's a pretty big deal for her. For me to. I kept trying to snap some photos, because it's the cutest thing, but most of them are just the two of them walking away from me. I've been replaced. Sigh.
They made MUD PIES!!! How cool is that? I didn't even mind the laundry I had to wash by hand afterwards in my wonderwash, which works great, but is still a lot of work. I really need to have a whole post about my wonderwash. I have a love, hate, love relationship with it.
Maggie and Emmy are coming in every night exceptionally dirty. Like, 'they have to be carried straight to the shower so they won't touch anything' dirty.
I'm ok with that.
That means they are having TONS of fun and being kids.
Without electronics. I love it!
Yep. Those are worms. Squirmy, wormy ones. They found a LOT of worms. They collected them in a bug catcher...they added dirt, and grass and it was a lot of fun...and then Chad said that they should add some water to the dirt so they don't get dried out. Which is a GREAT idea, right? It was a HOT day, and we didn't want them to get dried out and die before we return them to the earth.
So, being the responsible mother and caretaker that I am, added a little of Chad's water from his cup.
Except that I later discovered that it wasn't his cup.
It was mine.
And, more importantly, it wasn't water.
It was wine.
So, we just ended up with a bunch of dead, drunk worms.
Whoops.
My bad.
There were a few survivors though.
The girls didn't release the living back into the wild, and they were forgotten until the next day. Emmy found 3 still squirming and treasured them until she put them on top of our metal cooler in the 80 degree sun. Do you know what happens to worms NOT in dirt on top of a hot, metal cooler?
They die.
I walked by an hour or so later and they were shriveled up and dead.
Those worms never stood a chance.
Maggie loves her hats. She also loves Annie's hats, so the bad news is that she's stretching all of Annie's hats out. The good news is that Annie will be able to wear them again in 2 years.
I'll be the first to say that Canada got the good end of the deal when they got their half of Niagara Falls. We went to the falls a couple of years ago without a passport for Maggie (and it was freezing cold in November) so we had to see the Falls from the American side, which was quite UNDER-whelming.
So much so that we didn't really even want to go back, because it wasn't really 'that' big of a deal. But it IS one of the 'Wonders of the World'...at least I THINK it is, so, back we went to the CANADIAN side, and boy am I glad we did!
Holy cow that's a lot of water.
Seriously.
An INSANE amount of water.
We had some amazingly breathtaking views of the falls, and walked through the completely touristy street (which I kind of like on occasion) and rode the Maid of the Mist boat which is absolutely incredible. The sheer amount of water that surrounds you on the boat from all sides is astounding.
It cannot be described and must be experienced.
We had a boat-full with us, and while in the midst of the falls I didn't hear much talking...it hushed a crowd, and is purely an 'AWE'some experience.
Something I did not realize is that there are two separate Falls that are part of Niagara Falls, but the Maid, does take you to both.
It simply must be done.
We had a debate with Emmy on if this street performer was a 'real person' or a 'robot'.
She insisted he was a robot.
This was a real guy.
At least one of them was.
On the ride home, all tuckered out.
See you down the road!
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