Well I hope she gets a tickle for being in the title line. Because I'm so far behind in updating our whereabouts this would be the next 'big' happening after the bathroom was that our friend from Greece came to visit for 10 days. While she wss here we did touristy things among which were 3 days at Disneyland. Well we did not stay in Anaheim so we kept going back and forth only staying for a max of 6 hours! We still were super exhausted by the end of the third day! The first day Stephen was with us so we managed to do all the grown up rides that she wanted to do even though...it was insanely busy. The other two days Ifigeneia had her firsts as well as some of her favs...and there were some new ones for us. For one Casey Jr. Circus train...I had no idea that that train existed! and GZ was positively awed by the awesomeness lol :o)
We also went to the Getty Villa on a Saturday taking a new awesome, closer, better route....I'm not telling I don't want to congest it :o) Even though it was a hot day the villa being situated by the beach and architectually designed to function without an A/C (well at least some of it)...I think that deserves a God bless the Greeks (it was Roman yes but they took it from the Greeks)...it was a breezy beautiful afternnon spent museuming :o) They have great things for kids...the first think we did is we pretended to be merchants of fabric, from some place in Greece, and traded lots of pounds of material for a little bit of olive oil. The olive oil we mock made it ourselves...they put a few olives in a grinding thing and I beat them to the death and got 3 drops of olive oil...extra virgin I might add ;o) the first and best press. Well then we took our oil and 'traded' it for perfume. Well we had to make our own perfume so we got to keep the oil, so we crushed herbs that we chose (lavender was one of them) and them we mixed it with the oil. Then we took our perfume and traded it for gold, (we got to keep the perfume...our gift from the Getty) we got to engrave a gold leaf and then attached it to a plastic thing and made a necklace out of it. My coin inscribed....Victory with a victory wreath, Athens 10 drachma (all of that was in Greek)f....so I'm a little hurt for not getting the medal for the best coin around....I'll get over it :o) We also got to draw on clay pots, and draw realistic figurines and got to play with our shadows. I highlly recoment the Getty if you have children and like beautiful gardens and balconies...now if you like archeology they have that too :o) If fact they have the only gold jewelry that I've ever liked! Too bad they are almost priceless and of coarse I would not dare to walk around the street with that stuff on my head, neck, nose, hands, ears....Oh yeah I also like the way the homes were made with the rain falling in the midle of the house gathering in a pool to be used for household uses and gardens in another middle of the house with luscious landscaping, irresistable smells and relaxing sounds of the fountains. Of coarse even if I was a billioner I could probably not afford a house like that so its just tucked aways for dreaming :o)
The rest of our time was spent with every day stuff like having a friend over for dinner (including the cooking and cleaning it ensues :o) pool time and running errands, going to church and even visiting a new church and playing games. We are thankful that we had the opportunity to have Ifigeneia at our home...it is always a welcomed treat.
So I just had a thought...a thought of the present :o) GZ was just sitting next to me as we are watching her favorite video 'Shamu"...I held her hand and thought how blessed I am to be her mom and what a wonderful gift she is to us :o)
These pictures go with the post below :o) when our computer died there were a whole bunch of pictures that I had not transfered to the external and they were lost so I had to use the ones I've already used for FB I had some more I was saving for the post but oh well :o) Praise God I did have some pics from the things we did and they are not completely lost forever! Enjoy
