Heritage Days!

Just after they danced, taking a break.

Our ever famous self portrait

The adorable Aimee!

Sandy, Xander and Bridget! Xander loved his chocolate covered banana, he was so funny all he wanted was the food!

Amanda, Taty and Jake!

Cutest little native kid!

Me trying a dutch game

Jake and the Chinese dragon! Earlier he tried to eat Tatyanah's snow cone but I did not have the camera ready!

Philippine Tatyanah

Tatyanah getting watered on by the tall water guy!

Amanda and I as dutch!

These indian boys were so cute the one in blue was so full of excitement and we loved watching him!

This lady from Arab was so cool. She took dough and rolled it out, then threw it in the air, pulled it out on the pillow and then cooked it on the rounded grill. It was so good!

We love Heritage days! So many different ethnic groups all performing. They all had different food and cultural items form their countries. It is always a highlight of our summer. Jake and Amanda eat every kind of food, I thought they were going to get camel something or other but they wanted to try other things. We love it there!

Outdoor Pool!

Tatyanah, Amanda and I went to the outdoor pool and I tried and tried to get Amanda's pic as she did a backwards flip, the best part of her having to do it 10 times was all the cool different shots I got of her in between!

Tatyanah did one back flip and lots of really fun shots! She kept trying to do a back flip and well she ended up jumping off the diving board backwards! We went a few days later with Casy, Rai and Jake and they were so much fun too but we did not bring the camera!

Drumming Circle

I love Amanda's serious face when she is concentrating! And Jake's too!

Amanda, Jake and I headed down to the Legislature to a drumming circle on Sunday last week. Amanda's mom bought her her first drum, an ashiko, in PEI and she wanted to play for a long time. She was so nervous at first but then she was amazing! The leader guy said that most people do not catch on so quickly, he liked her! Even Jake played for a bit.

My Mama

It has already been almost 1 year since my mama died of cancer. I have been at peace with her leaving and happy she is not struggling but as this first year creeps up on me, I realize how much I miss her. I wish we could have one more day just to visit, to laugh, to talk about anything. I know that will not happen but I wish.

I know that in time the feelings will not be so strong but I did not realize they would feel this intense at this time!

I love my Mama!

Skim Boarding 101

Jake bought his skim board and was great at it from the first try. He was teaching Amanda and it is a lot harder than it looks!

Wool Heaven

MacAusland's Woolen Mill

Prince Edward Island

www.macauslandswoolenmills.com

I can not believe we found this cool place. I knew yarn came from sheep and how they carded and made it into wool to knit with but I dis not know places like this family run place existed. It was AMAZING, I loved it. And it smelled like wool!

The greatest thing was a ball of yearn was only $2.50 and all natural. I can not believe I did not buy the whole place out. It was so neat. And you could walk through as you wished. It was so awesome.

Guess what everyone is getting for Christmas???

Red Dirt Shirts

The sand and dirt in PEI is so red, it is the coolest thing ever, except that is turns every white thing red. There is a huge market of 'dirt' things. We were going to buy some but then Shona and the kids made dirt shirts. It was so cool!