A Long Long Long Weekend (Happy 4th of July!)

One trip through the crowds in downtown DC. One hour-long paddle-boat trip around the Tidal Basin, complete with chasing flocks of geese through the water. One 4th of July BBQ, complete with Irish and Greek dancing. Haircuts and a quick private tour of a local fire station. A 4 and a half hour 5th of July BBQ. Lots and lots of running from the rain. All by Saturday night.
On Sunday I anticipated that we would 1) not be able to top the excitement of the previous two days, and 2) have to design some activities. Cool activity number one: craft project with sticky tape animals and my awesome rendition of a zoo, complete with waterfalls, a pond, slides (!!) for the animals, and an occasional cage. And coconut trees.


However, despite our bests efforts, the SUNDAY-AFTERNOON-BOREDOM set in... And no, those are not address labels. They are "boy-earrings for the face". Okay?
Guitar lessons started this Wednesday. Which, of course, adds two child-sized rental guitars to the mule-load of stuff we drag through the tunnel to the garage every Wednesday night: stuffed animals, remnants of half-eaten snacks, new snacks that I use to lure them to the car, backpacks, etc.. The guitars make super great picture props:

.. And this is how they sound... :) I'm hoping there will be an "after" video, where our angelic guitar duet will deftly strum out "Born to Be Wild"..