coming at you from BC

so i’m sitting at an internet cafe in the town near our villa and it is a beautiful, hot day.  hot by canadian standards anyway, not by my uber-sweltering californian standards!!  it’s in the 80’s…no wait, scratch that, they are on celsius here, so it’s about …um…high 30’s?  sounds cold doesn’t it?  seems about the only thing i don’t have to convert here is the money.  canadian dollars are about on par with american dollars.

anyway, the boys are taking a nap, the friends are swimming and i was missing my internets and needed a few minutes with my love.  lol!

so far this week we have gone up to the alpine level of a mountain, seen a grizzly, and resisted the urge to feed him the kids.  trust me, it has been an adventure traveling with a 3 year old.  thank Zeus for portable DVD players.  life savers and i highly recommend getting one for long trips with small kids.  turns out friends bought one mid-trip for their little one.  smart people!  although, i have decided that once the Dictator learns to read he can start doing that on road trips, not watching ‘Cars’ 14 times in a row.

what else, well, i missed the meteor showers.  too cloudy for the first few days of it and frankly, i’m too tired by the end of the day to stay up late for the prime veiwing of meteors.  oh well, there is always the Leonids in November.  i did get a nice night for telescoping last night and got to show off Mr. Jupiter and his moons to my friends.  i looked for the Andromeda Galaxy last night, but she is soooo elusive and my neck was starting to hurt.

lets see….we have also had the olympics on heavy rotation in the villa.  we are all big fans, including the Dictator, which is quite handy as there is no CD player in the villa and he needs something on to fall alseep at night.  we just put him down and turn on the sports and he is happy as pie.  he is really into the swimming and watching michael phelps win all those medals.  he also loves gymnastics and last night we got to watch the men’s to which he exclaimed, “wow!  those guys are REALLY STRONG!”  this morning he tried out his own version of parallel bars using the arms of the couch and a chair.  pretty cute!!

we have also betrothed him to our friends’ 2 year old.  they like us, we like them, and we decided that this would be best for all involved if they just get married when they are older.  we asked the children and they agreed so it is all set.  we are thinking that the wedding will be at the monterey bay aquarium in about, oh…20 years.  mark your calender mom.

so i think that my computer’s battery is just about gone and i want to email my mama, so i will sign off for now.  i hope you are all enjoying my guest bloggers and visiting their sites!!  ciao!!