Happy Fourth of July!
Jul. 4th, 2007 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrOur trip to Yellowstone was a long day, but lots of fun. We saw an impressive number of wildlife: moose, elk, deer, bison, foxes, etc. No bears, though. I'm not sure I'm quite disappointed about that. We saw Old Faithful blow and walked around thermal pools/mud pots. The weather was gorgeous. Sitting in the back seat, Delia sang hundreds of times, "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how it goes: I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves . . . " but we were all in such a good mood that we just laughed at her.
The families have been taking turns serving dinners. Last night it was the turn of my brother-in-law Phil (the geology prof) and his wife Tricia. Tricia had stayed back at the condo cooking up a feast while everyone was at Yellowstone. Since this trip was originally supposed to be the family's Australian trip, she made an Australian feast: sausage rolls, meat pot pies, curry rice salad, and no less than four desserts. Then every family had to offer an Australian thing: a skit, a game, a charade. I had much more wine than usual, which was perhaps not very helpful when it came time to do the boomerang toss. For our family, I taught the girls a song I'd learn at camp: "Australian girls, they have no combs (they comb their hair with codfish bones)." The girls were tentative, but the song absolutely cracked everybody up.
Today, our family is cooking, so Rob and I are about to leave for the grocery store. Dinner tonight will be a fourth of July picnic menu: brauts and pasta salad, with watermelon for dessert. Delia is off horse back riding right now, but this afternoon, we'll probably poke around the stores at Jackson Hole for a bit.
Have a great 4th, everybody.
The families have been taking turns serving dinners. Last night it was the turn of my brother-in-law Phil (the geology prof) and his wife Tricia. Tricia had stayed back at the condo cooking up a feast while everyone was at Yellowstone. Since this trip was originally supposed to be the family's Australian trip, she made an Australian feast: sausage rolls, meat pot pies, curry rice salad, and no less than four desserts. Then every family had to offer an Australian thing: a skit, a game, a charade. I had much more wine than usual, which was perhaps not very helpful when it came time to do the boomerang toss. For our family, I taught the girls a song I'd learn at camp: "Australian girls, they have no combs (they comb their hair with codfish bones)." The girls were tentative, but the song absolutely cracked everybody up.
Today, our family is cooking, so Rob and I are about to leave for the grocery store. Dinner tonight will be a fourth of July picnic menu: brauts and pasta salad, with watermelon for dessert. Delia is off horse back riding right now, but this afternoon, we'll probably poke around the stores at Jackson Hole for a bit.
Have a great 4th, everybody.