It's Friday, Friday!

Our rainy Friday night consisted of me going on a successful shoe shopping trip...

...while Leif and Keith went to the batting cage.

We got some pretty neat shots when I got there.

Where's the bat?

Bent bat.

Nice swing!

You can see the bat the whole way.

I even hit the ball!

They had this pro-pitcher machine.  The screen showed a pitcher throwing a ball and a real one would come out of a hole in the screen.  You can see the yellow blur!

Summer Fun

We just returned from a short but sweet time at my grandparents' farm in Ontario.  We saw aunts, uncles, cousins, and other extended family - most of whom I haven't seen in 5 to 10 years!  And of course Leif got to meet a lot of new people!  The weather was of the fantastic summer variety and we even got some colour on our pale bodies!

Here are the 7 of us cousins on our way to swim in the river.

We go swimming near a bridge so the adventurous lot can jump off of it.

Here are the girls.

We also went for some bike rides on these really old bikes.

One of my very talented cousins brought some body paint and gave us temporary tattoos.  All of these were on me, Leif, or my sister.

Much eating and much card playing also took place.  Overall, awesome 3 days.  Back to work tomorrow...

Petless

Our ugly bottom feeding fish died a couple weeks ago.  It was gross.  I may or may not have screamed a few times.

And now we have sold our turtles to a lovely man who has a nice big indoor pond with another big turtle to be their big brother.  We're kind of happy because we're sick of cleaning that disgusting tank and they'll be happier there and I will no longer have mini panics during the day thinking that the turtle tank may have broken the table it's on and destroyed our house.  But we're kind of sad because we liked looking at them.

Any suggestions for what to put on the table now?  We're thinking smaller fish tank and some nice green healthy plants!