US Visit
Well, things are going surprisingly well with the US trip. I was forcibly reminded why I don't book flights that aren't direct, when our plane was delayed by about 15 minutes, and the airline deemed we no longer had time to make our connecting flight and (admittedly conveniently) automatically canceled our boarding passes and issued us with ones for the next flight. In 4 hours. The only part about that that sucked, was that we DID clear customs and passport control in time to have made the original flight.
So after traveling 22 hours, we made it to my in-law's house. I fell almost immediately into a sleep of the dead. The next day my sister-in-law and her husband and their two daughters came to the house. Bailey and Rachel have grown a little bit, and are slightly better at games (they especially like Express) but are otherwise more or less as I remember them.
Apparently Aunt Amber knitting made it seem fun, because they both insisted I teach them to knit (note that both their grandmother and mother knit). They were doing pretty good, but I think I may get one of those little knitting things for kids and carry it in my bag next time I'm going to be knitting around kids. I think they would have had more fun with that, as they would have got more immediate good results. My main instruction for their 'practicing' was to count their stitches at the end of every row to make sure they had the same number each time.
That's about it for now. I'm enjoying drinking my Mt Dew, and I have been sneaking a few Reece's cups from my private stash every once in a while. Don't tell the kids!
So after traveling 22 hours, we made it to my in-law's house. I fell almost immediately into a sleep of the dead. The next day my sister-in-law and her husband and their two daughters came to the house. Bailey and Rachel have grown a little bit, and are slightly better at games (they especially like Express) but are otherwise more or less as I remember them.
Apparently Aunt Amber knitting made it seem fun, because they both insisted I teach them to knit (note that both their grandmother and mother knit). They were doing pretty good, but I think I may get one of those little knitting things for kids and carry it in my bag next time I'm going to be knitting around kids. I think they would have had more fun with that, as they would have got more immediate good results. My main instruction for their 'practicing' was to count their stitches at the end of every row to make sure they had the same number each time.
That's about it for now. I'm enjoying drinking my Mt Dew, and I have been sneaking a few Reece's cups from my private stash every once in a while. Don't tell the kids!