Nana's Rainy 4th of July Adventure Visit

Unlike last year, the weather didn't cooperate much in June. Lots and lots of rain! Fortunately, Nana came to visit and brought some sunshine into our lives. (Figuratively speaking, of course.)

We had a bit more inside time than usual. We made the mistake of introducing Senor to the vroom VROOM mini documentary on the Arctic Man. (Which takes place every spring just a few miles from Paxson, Alaska.) The new addition to his vocabulary is getting a lot of mileage.



The rest of the week's adventures looked a lot like this:

That's right, soggy. Soggy in front of the apartment. Soggy on top of Ballyhoo. Soggy at the beach. Soggy out not catching fish. Soggy at the airport. When not outside in our slickers, we did entertain ourselves with lots of reading (Child 44 (hard to put down), The Geography of Bliss, etc.), and an interesting documentary called "My Kid Could Paint That." Basically, it's about a child prodigy. An abstract artist child prodigy. After watching the movie, we determined that Paxson Revel is probably a child prodigy, too. It's all in the marketing!

And of course, while lots of people in America were out camping and frolicking in the hot sun, we were huddled on Broadway, Unalaska in the soggy mid 40's watching the 4th of July parade. Senor loved it. Candy showering from the heavens. Sirens!

Kids on bikes! (Bucks, as Senor pronounces it.)

Tractor!

vroom VROOM! (With training wheels, no less. You don't see that every day! (We can imagine what Senor Racecardriver would probably like to see under the Christmas tree.) You can actually see senor's hand doing the vroom VROOMing motion in the foreground)

Who else?

We love the library, of course.

Ryo! Fellow candy hunter!

Enjoying the spoils...

Bye bye Nana! Bye bye Nana bar bar! (Translation= Bye bye Nana's airplane. Airplane is still pronounced barbar for some reason. barBAR is airport. We're slowly learning Senor's language.)

Thanks for coming to visit, Nana! Next time maybe we'll see the sun once!