Right Coast Left Coast

 Apologies for the silence last week. I was here:

doing this:

With these folks, plus 5 more from our Y... and about 4,000 others.

Philadelphia is a great city. Incredible architecture, history and great food. Were it not for the 98% humidity and 3000 degree heat index, I may have ventured out more with the 8 spare minutes we had outside of the General Assembly. The convention was great... and it was wonderful to get home to the other coast, with these little buggers (picture taken at the movie in the park on Friday... we saw Brave --great flick!)

 Jezebel has a superhuman affection for superheroes. :) 

 We spent today playing in a river about 40 minutes from town--shallow and not fast moving; we'll be back! 

Oh yeah? I can do that, too! 

 she's getting big. ain't no stopping it. 

I am always happy to get my big city fix... and always happy to come home.

Independence

It was a beautiful weekend here--the heat spell broke and we enjoyed gorgeous summer weather, and some lazy, meandering, puttering and fun summer adventures! 

A 4th of July Parade at a small town south of here. Small town Americana, Norman Rockwellian-like stuff, this here parade. 

Although I'm pretty sure no other small town, and fairly certain no Rockwell has a Duck-inspired Fire Truck:

Waiting for fireworks...

And what better way to pass the time than with birthday cake for our dear friend Ruby who shares a birthday with our country. She's just a few years younger.

Made our way to the library to (finally) sign up for summer reading and get our first big load of summer books, some chocolate milk and quality time with this guy:

In the library courtyard...

 Playtime at the park

 ...and we set up the tent in our living room for a cozy, mid-summer sleep....

The Cupcake Dance

Click here to see our Cupcake Dance :) Just thought it was time to update you on the dance moves.