Summer Vacation 2013: Philly Feeding Frenzy

(Yes, we made it back from vacation.  Seems I had a few photos to go through.  Ahem.)

One of our first adventures was feeding some friendly horses -- and a cute little pony.  The very cute donkeys would not come over, but we had plenty of fun without them.

Then we fed some ducks, who were quite happy about that.

This tree also seemed hungry, but we had no idea what to feed him.

We found our first of many cicada shells, which totally creeped Lil' Guy out.  But not for long.  Stay tuned on the bug front.

Finally, it was time to feed US!  It has been decades since I've had a Friendly's sundae.  NOM.

7/19 - Happy Sack and Snowie in the round

We found a fancy ice cream truck.  Snowie (formerly known as Frosty) liked that it had cold treats.  Happy Sack liked that the treats were bright and round.

We also agreed that these flowers were super duper pretty.

8/09 - Space Suit screams for ice cream

The police officer was looking for bad guys and wondered why a space suit would be wandering around by itself…

I love this building. Today they offered us free ice cream and a harp player up on the rooftop. What’s not to lick? I mean, like?

Damien and I took Space Suit to get ice cream. Damien and I had cookies and cream. Space Suit got whipped cream everywhere…

8/08 - Black Snakie slurps up a scrumptious sundae

He slithered to the bottom of the sundae cup and slurped his way up to the top. It was quite messy, but totally worth it.

How cute are my little camp Carnival animals?

7/24 - The Thing finds some new buddies

I am the pirate one. Which one are you?

Forgot to add this yesterday.  The Thing loves to smash ice cream cones.

6/21 - Yoshi learns a wheelie important lesson

This was written on somebody’s bike wheel (upside down!): “Each one teach one.” What will you teach me today?

Another one of those ice cream ads, this time with banana boats. (Lots of banana commentary today, for some reason.)

6/15 - Fumi and Octopus scream for ice cream

There were two ice cream ads – one flavor for each toy.   Don’t these look delicious?

We sat on the rooftop garden for a while at lunchtime to get some fresh air and enjoy the sunshine. Ahhhh. Fumi and Octopus enjoyed the summer sun(dial). (It’s supposed to be super hot this weekend!)

One of Mommy’s coworkers falls asleep a lot and sometimes snores.  He must have a really boring job.  He didn’t even wake up when we took this picture!  Fumi says, "Naptime is over!"

10/04 - Brittany and the box of better binders

It’s a tongue twister!  Can you say it 5 times fast?  I can’t.  My coworkers will think I’m strange(r).

Brittany bites! She didn’t bite me, but this poor ice cream treat got to see how sharp her little chipmunk teeth are.  NOM!

Tonight's derby practice was doubly thwarted by a BART delay and a rain storm.  I like to call that a bingo.

5/19 - Tales of Planet Robotron and the Missing Ice Cream Truck

Today was supposed to be a vacation day.  Which it was, but I spent it feeling miserable with the cold I picked up from Lil' Gal.  I held down the fort while Mama went to kindergarten open house.  We played with the rocket, which landed on the red planet of Robotron.  Of course, having a sofa-like surface, it was hard for the robots to keep their balance.

Suddenly, we heard the ice cream truck coming, with its odd song choice of "Fur Elise."  We pulled on our shoes, and waited for it to come back.  On its way back, it turned down the cul-de-sac across from our house (clearly marked "No Outlet").  We sat on the front yard to wait. We waited and waited and waited, but it never came out of the cul-de-sac.  When Mama and the kids finally went to look for it, they discovered that there *was* an outlet to the cul-de-sac of doom!  The ice cream truck had escaped!

This was not a day to learn one of life's little lessons.  Mama loaded the kids into the van and took them to the pizza place up the street, where they got to pick out goodies from the cooler.  Yay for Mama!  She saved the day!

4/12 - Meetings are always better with ice cream

Today, Lil' Gal picked out a toy to keep me company as I worked from home with the intent of keeping my coughing to myself.  "You can have it for a snack!"  So sweet.  If only I had an appetite.