We're Back!

Here's some pics of how we enjoyed our first 2 weeks back.

Painting our sidewalk.

A friend's birthday party.

so fun to see maggie making some friends.

The cutest zoo campers, ever!

It's sooo good to be home!

Day 121 and 122 - On the Road Home

We made it as far as Virginia today. The 80 degree temperatures were a nice change. The girls are pretty sick of the car - and we are, too...Luckily, only 5 hours away from home!!!

Here's how are van looked pulling out of Montreal...we could not fit another thing in there.

NY looked a lot different than when we drove up in February.

Can you see the temperature? 63 degrees when we crossed the border in the US.

Maggie actually slept on the first leg of our trip. She didn't sleep once on our way up - so this was a good sign. She looked so uncomfortable with her head flopping around everywhere - that eventually we propped up her head with this stuffed animal and shoe. All in all it was only an hour nap...but that's an hour longer than she usually sleeps in the car!

Maggie had pretty much had it by this point yesterday. Carly wasn't too thrilled to still be traveling either.

Day 2 - It seemed like we were never going to get out of Pennsylvannia today. We were all pretty happy to see West Virginia.

Maggie begging to no be put back in the car!

Hopefully the next blog post will come from SC!!!

Day 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, and 120

Well....it's the eve of our departure from Canada. I'm pretty excited to be going home accept I'm so tired from packing and cleaning that I can barely type.

This is how we role these days...the double is packed for SC. I have to bribe them with Dora fruit chews - but it works.

An art exhibit we found in Old Montreal.

Walking through our favorite secret garden.

Playing Store...Carly set up a clothing store in the hallway. Maggie was her best customer.

Carly made price tags, too. They were really good deals!

Dance recital at preschool...it was sooo cute! You have to ask them to do the chihuahua dance the next time you see them.

Day 109, 110, 111, 112

Family Day

I can't seem to make timely posts anymore. A week ago we attended family day at the local park. It was a great festival. Here's a couple of the highlights:

A great petting zoo - although you had to pet them over the fence - the girls were fine with that - they really just wanted to look. The baby goats were really cute and the llamas were different than most. There were also chickens, geese, sheep, a pony, and a cow. It was interesting watching them all interact in one area.

 Carly is always up for getting her face painted. We know from several other festivals how long this can take...so we planned our whole day around it. We were second in line. Maggie was in line, too. She had big plans to be a kitty - but then decided she didn't want to deal with strangers and couldn't not be coaxed into the chair.

Bouncy blow ups were everywhere. We were a little fearful for Maggie with all of the wild 6 to 8 year old boys jumping about - but she held her own and never saw one she didn't want to try.

Carly would have stayed on these all day.

The place was packed by lunchtime. It was actually one morning that we were glad the girls got us up and going early. The did the bouncy area until we couldn't stand the crowd anymore. Then we stood in line for the horses and ate some hot dogs. The horse line was definitely the longest, but the girls were determined to ride. They sat in their stroller for about 40 minutes waiting for their turn. In the end, the wait was worth the ride.

Lines became longer and longer - but Maggie didn't seem to mind. She was pretty excited to get to walk around in the grass without any shoes on. We ended the festival with a very strange version of Aladdin. Mike and I were a little surprised by the language and story line - but luckily Carly didn't seem to catch it. Before the play, the actors came out into the audience and talked to the children. Here's Carly talking to Aladdin's mother. Apparently, in this Canadian version, Aladdin has a mother and a very obnoxious brother, too.

Maggie and Carly have both requested to return to this festival next year. It was really well done and in the perfect location. We were surpised how much was free - especially since everything here is so expensive.

Day 107, 108

Pictures of Maggie at Sunset