We are still in America, and fly out tomorrow, so I thought it was a good time to update!
From the last post, we were at our friend Doreen's house, wiht her 5 kids. It was a madhouse, and a lot of fun!
We had a nice relaxing time, and did not much of anything. It was nice to just spend time together, and relax.
One of the things we did do, was go blueberry picking. It was heaps of fun!
Doreen had sprained her ankle on our first night there, and it was pretty bad, so we left her and her eldest son, James behind, and took her other 4 kids, plus Jasper, Paul and I.
It was raining and really muddy, and heaps of fun!!
Here we are treking through...
The middle photo is Jordan - Doreens eldest girl (11), and on the far right is Jasper - totally in his element - mud, rain and blueberries!!
So from Rear Left = Jordan, Jacob
from Front Left = Jasper, Jorja, Julia
(notice the pattern of the names???)
I made a most delicious pie (even if I do say so myself!!), and we ate more than we picked!!! It was awesome and we loved it!!
Then we had Camp Sunshine - I will post on that soon,,, after we went back to Doreens for 2 nights, and on the Thursday afternoon, we had another FA family come to catch up and have a play... the Ice Cream Truck went past, and as the 3 mums called out "get off the road, kids - no icecream for you", Paul walks out of the house waving money and it was a bit like the Pied Piper!!
Here are the munchkins eating away -
Kristin (another FA mum) is back left, Doreen is back right, Wesley is front left, then it looks like Jorja, Jacob, Quinn, and Julia.
jasper was floating around somewhere, and the older kids were hanging out inside!
There were some interesting colours happening on the tounges...
Jorja (FA)
Julia (twin with Jorja) (FA)
Jacob (brother to the twins, Jordan and James)
Quinn (sister to Wesley)
Wesley (FA)
Jasper (FA)
Japser had a fall at Camp, and had a big scratch above his eye - here is a close up of the black eye that started to develop nearly 1 week after the accident...
When nature calls....
Doreen did say this was ok - and what sort of mother would I be to let the opportunity go when I am standing right there with the camera?!?!
Jasper and Wesley playing ball outside.
This was a very serious conversation between Wes and Jas about some grass seeds..
you are not mistaken.. Jasper is wearing his undies.. he did not want to go swimming, but did not want to get his icypole on his clothes...
That day was Kristins birthday, and she invited us all out to dinner with her family. Doreen and the kids could not come, but here is Jasper with Quinn and Collin (Wesleys siblings) playing on the iPod touch.. it kept them quiet and entertained when we wanted to chat after eating!
Here is Wesley with his parents, Kristin and Sean.
Our boys... they are so cute together!!! They are both 6, both about the same height and weight, and play nicely together - most of the time!! I think they could almost be brothers looking at this shot!!
Our first stop after leaving Doreen's house was.... SALEM, MA..
It was really pretty and not so spooky. You can do the spooky things if you want to, but we did not, and it was a really nice time.
Here I am in my "natural state" - witch brooke!!
At lunch, Jasper ordered a Root Beer - it looks like he is drinking a real beer!! We took this one for Jasper's Poppie!!
The place we had lunch was called In A Pig's Eye. The boys that Paul does bowling with call him Pig, so we HAD to eat there!!!
Here I am with my witchey friend on a street somewhere in Salem!!
It was REALLY hot, so we stopped for icecream.. Jasper had Orange Sherbert (tasted just like it!) and I had Maine Black Bear flavour (raspberry with raspberry truffles in it - totally delicious!!)
It was as big as his head!!
We met a really nice lady at one of the t-shirt stands. We stopped for a chat, and she gave Paul and I 2 t-shirts for free. Mine matched one that we had bought for Jasper, and so Jas wanted to have a photo of us as matching twins!!
The next day we went to Plymouth to see Plymouth Rock. It was suprisingly small, compared to what I was thinking, but they had a man there who said it used to be 3 times this size, but with all the souveniers that people have taken, and pieces that have been donated to museums etc, well it is as big as it is now!
It was a good history lesson for all of us!
Here are Jasper and I at the sign that says Plymouth Rock etc
Jasper and his daddy at the same sign
We went to Plymouth on our way to Cape Cod. I was expecting more from the Cape, and was a bit disappointed... we went to the ZooQuarium, which is just as it sounds, a zoo and an aquarium! It was pretty small, but interesting all the same.
Here is Jasper at the Aquaruim part of the park, there were some big fish behind him.
I wondered who ever looked at this bird and thought "I might try to eat that" had a wicked sense of humour - but I am sure glad they tried this - DINNER!!!
Jasper at Pirate Mini-Golf
We went to a water park today on our way to Connecticut called Water Wizz. We could not take cameras in at all as they were shooting a new Adam Sandler film there. Before you ask, we did not see anyone famous!!
Our holiday officially ends tomorrow, we fly out at 7.10pm. We are planning on going to the beach tomorrow, and so should be sufficiently tanned (not Jasper - he will be coated in sun block!!) to come home brown and warm.
We are going to miss our FAmily, and are so appreciative to Doreen and her kids (my 5 J-babies) for putting up with us, we love you guys, and are so lucky to have met you 3 years ago, and to be good friends.
To Kristin and Sean, we love you and your family, and look forward to spending more time with you next year, deciphering the strange english language we all speak but struggle to understand!
To our other FAmily, we love you all, and had a great time meeting you all again at Camp Sunshine - Until 2010!!
I am looking forward to getting home - I miss my mum and dad - as does Jasper.
He is ready to get home, so it is good timing!!
Love to all, and to all a good night!
Thanks for reading.
Brooke
xxx
1 comment:
Lovely post!!! Glad you guys had such a great time in the states. I'll have to hire you guys as guides seeing you've seen more of the U.S. than we have. Miss you guys so much!
-Kristin
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