…Now with Curie and Elia
Montreal Food Crawl. Not shown, the most expensive Roy Rogers at rest stops on the way up and back, the club lounge breakfasts and appetizers (including duck and smoked salmon), the museum cafe, some of the other food court purchases and other snacks. Otherwise, from upper left to right,1) Hakata Ramen – one of Albert’s favorites, 2) Nudo – and tossed noodles, and a bit of a disappointment, too doughy and too sweet, Continue reading “Montreal Urban Hiking and Food Crawl 2018”
Merry Christmas 2018! Kinder Surprise Eggs! NOT Kinder Joy, Maxi eggs, Miraculous medium eggs, and regular eggs, in two packs, three packs, and holiday packs. Oh and Kinder devastation shortly after.
The new house has gotten a little in the way of family time. Thank goodness for a chance to do something together Labor Day weekend. We tried Yang Kang Street Food in Pentagon City with Susie, Isabella, and Olivia. We had a great time, food was okay, pottery painting was fun, but ice cream and Doodlehoppers took the cake (see Olivia’s dinosaur tail). Photo credit to Isabella stabilized by Susie.
Erin outdid herself and had a tie and pocket square made of an extra dress she bought so that we could all match.
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Isabella’s family invited us to Bobby McKey’s make sure you see the video of Erin dancing to YMCA!
The National Harbor merry-go-round is the best deal in the DMV, It went up to $7 per kid (adults ride free) but it is all-you-can-ride
The Peep store is the only one in the country purportedly. The kids don’t need much to have fun, just a wall and their imagination. Olivia is under the cover. Pictures of Elia jumping are posted separately.
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The last time we were at Burnside Farms was in 2015 for on our friend Emma’s recommendation for tulips in the spring. We went yesterday for Sunflowers in the summer and realized that Elia here is the same age as Curie then. Here are some similar pictures for comparison.
Girls doing the quick turn, picking flowers and running to the jumping thing. If you decide to go, don’t put in GPS for the Burnside Farms Flower Fields as you will get lost and frustrated like we did) it is a different field than their tulip fields. Go to their website and get the right one somewhere in Haymarket.
Spoils of our trip.
Back to Thomasland! Two years later and they are more refined since 2015. Elia is at the ideal age and Curie, while she didn’t want to go initially, also had a great time.
The girls were old enough to ride by themselves for the most part and it was really cute to see Curie taking care of Elia on each of the rides. It meant the adults did not ride on as much. Elia was so proud to be above the ride height.
More fun in Marshfield. We should explain, the babushkas are because it was so cold the one day we went to the ocean. And the bottom photo we said “it is time for a silly picture,” to which the kids immediately reacted, but the grandparents perhaps not so much. 🙂 The contrast is fantastic.
Strangely the most relaxing thing on our trip was flying a kite as high as it would go.