Busy weekend

My first thing to report is that we had SUNSHINE!!!! It is so exciting.  The warm sun beating down on us all day was quite a treat and gives me hope that summer will finally arrive in the Czech Republic.  Actually the sun arrived on Friday, just in time for Jason's birthday.  Sofia and I stayed home on Friday since we had a little bit of upset stomachs still but by Friday afternoon we were both feeling fine.  Jason came home from work and we had a nice meal of orange chicken (homemade) and the cake for dessert.  I would have to upgrade my self to at least a C on execution of Jason's birthday.

The sun continued to shine on Saturday which was great especially becuase we went to the Summer Fayre at the girls school.  The girls had a really great time and did so many different things such as pony rides, bungee trampoline, face painting, button making, mask making as well as having lunch outside and some sweeties (candy) along the way. 

Ali and I left the Fayre a little early to go to a birthday party for Ali's friend, Sabina.  Unfortunately for me the party was at Beckiland which meant I had to leave the beautiful sunshine and sit inside for two hours but Ali had a blast.  The kids all ran around and played hard.  Ali ended up with a slide burn (like a rug burn but she got it from the slide) on her knee and a scrape on her elbow from the climbing wall.  One of Ali's friends fell off the giant crocodile unto the wood floor with her head and ended up with a nice big bump/bruise on her forehead.  All the injuries were soon forgotten in the face of running around with their friends and eating cake and more sweeties. 

After leaving the party we headed home to join Sofia and Jason.  Once I was sitting on the patio enjoying the sun the girls said, "I wish we could go in our pool.".  They were shocked when I told them they could go in.  After reassuring them multiple times that I wasn't joking and that the pool was ready to go in they decided to get their bathingsuits on.  I did tell them multiple times though that the pool was VERY cold and that they probably wouldn't want to go in. Well, even at 62 degrees (16C) Sofia jumped in and swam across the pool and pulled herself out a bunch of times.  She did say it was very cold and that she had to swim hard to stay warm and that it was way too cold to stand still in the water.  Ali climbed down the ladder and had water up to her chest but just couldn't jump in.  I'm impressed that she got so much of her body in though since the water was so cold.  Hopefully we will have a stretch of warm weather soon so that our pool will warm up an we can all start to enjoy it.

Even Watson was enjoying the sunshine.  Here he is taking a break on our front step and relaxing in the sunshine.

The sun is still shining this morning.  I'm looking forward to a fun relaxing day in the sun!