We got there a bit early, and were allowed to head down to the floor to meet some of the performers and to watch some of them warn up...including the dog and trainer below...Seeing the people and animals up close prior to the actual show was as fun as the show itself for Ben and me...
The dog and clowns and trapeze people and horses and other performers were great, but the elephants were awesome, and we were sitting close enough to see their eyes, smell the jungle smell of the beasts (not bad, but strong), and see the hair on their backs...Ben loved the elephants, so did I.
After the show, we headed down to my parents' house in CT for the rest of the weekend, but not before stopping off at Lake Placid's new Starbucks Coffee for "driving fuel" for daddy...it's may not seem like a big deal to people who live and work within walking distance of numerous Starbucks places, but we're excited, so I'm sharing...
We got to CT, and had a great weekend with my parents, Ben's Anti-Sarah and Aunt Cynthia and Uncle Brad...and Maggie, a 5 month old lab puppy we met this summer...boy has she grown since July...we had a great time playing with Maggie, although she sometimes gets a bit wild for Ben...
Every dog on the planet likes to chew on my boat shoes...what can I say, they taste great...
Ben had fun playing all sorts of games with the NYCbranch of his family, includng hide-and-seek, as shown below...he also got everyone to read books to him, old and new books...some of them 10-20 times...
D showed Ben how to play with and love Maggie in the right way, so that she stayed mellow...it worked some of the time...the rest of the time they both orbited around each other, us, the house, the outdoors, and lots of knock-over-able stuff...
Sunday, we went into Cornwall for a book sale at the library...Muz read some books to Ben while I scavenged the boxes for a mix of books for Ben and me...L O V E B O O K S....
After the library, we went down to Cream Hill Lake, splashed in the water a bit, and found a cool newt swimming along the bottom of the lake just off the beach...
When we got home, we all did some stuff around the outside of the house, including picking the mutant squashes that grow out of my parents' compost pile...the seeds from their suppers mingle and mesh in some weird Gaian/composty/de-evolutionary process...the things that end up growing don't look like any of the squash my parents ordinarily eat, and taste shockingly bland, but haven't killed anyone yet...
Maggie watched us messing around outside, doing her jaded farmer imitation...
but eventually she decided to help D load up the wagon with the mutants for relocation to a secure facility...just kidding, they just made a short trip up to the house, where D worked at parcelling them out amongst all of us...
We organized a line-up of the uber-squash...don't turn your back on these things...they have been tempered in the evolutionary furnace/foundry of West Cornwall's best compost pile, and although they are mostly seeds and wrinkles, they seemed to multiply every time I walked by...
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