The Party Has Moved

For anyone still checking in here and following this blog, I've felt it incumbent upon me for sometime to leave a note saying: The Party Has Moved!  It is now at http://www.walkalongtheway.com/ where we are relating our adventures in Switzerland. I'm pretty sure you know that, but I wanted some closure -- just in case.

Cinderella

Every year, we make movie with our cousins. Last summer we did Cinderella. In the past we've done Little Red Riding Hood, Robin Hood, Snow White, and even our own story, Dragon the Prairie. Hopefully, I'll get those up eventually. But for now, you'll have to content yourself with this one.

Comedy of Characters

A few weeks back, Loulou and Pete's put on a play too! They've been doing an acting class for the past few months with some friends. Below we have the gypsys, Esmerelda and Rudolpho. Rudolpho is one of Pete's good friends. They loved to steal - no, my bad - borrow shiny things.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Wilbert and the gypsys. You may recognize Prof. Dr. Dr. Wilbert from the tea party at WalkAlongtheWay. Although perhaps not with that hat...

King John (good King John, not the evil one of Robin Hood's time) and his sister Esmerelda, who is ste-borrowing his shiny crown.

Happy book club friends. Wilbert, the fair Princess Annalina (King John's daughter), and Esmerelda.

Summer is Here

Julius Caesar

A few weeks ago my middle school had our annual spring play. We did Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. It was a shortened version, but it was still Shakespeare's original words. I played the part of Portia, Brutus's wife. We had so much fun rehearsing and putting on the play. My teacher has two actor friends who came and helped us stage the play and it's been amazing to watch God in their lives.

Anyway, here I am with Brutus. Don't we look very Roman?

This was the first part of the performance, where we recited poems from the second part of the year (we had a winter feast) and talked about some of the terms we had learned.

Here's another picture of me with Brutus, it's really bad quality because it was a snapshot of a video. But it's still the best picture of me lighting wise.

Here are Brutus's troops marching off stage. I'm the curly head.

And the battle between Mark Antony/Octavius and Brutus/Cassius.
Death. Blood. Swords. Death.

The final bow.

Zaz hanging with the "big guys" afterwards. I love this picture.

Jenni and I, who is my sister-in-law through the play.

I had so much fun doing the play and I'm sad that I won't be able to do one next year. But I'm so glad that I did at least one!

And for the first time, I feel like taking more drama classes at some point. It's fun!

Portland II

A lovely weekend in Portland with old and new friends. On the way down we stopped at Burgerville in Centralia, where we feasted on cheeseburgers, milkshakes, and french fries - although the french fries turned out to have some gluten in them. :(

We went to sleep not long after wards (well, most of us did) and woke up in the morning to find that their had been gluten in the french fries. Mama and Lou did not feel good!

Nonetheless, we went to Charlie's lacrosse game and cheered him on. Then we headed to Bob's Red Mill and had a wonderful brunch. (gluten free for those who needed it) Pancakes, french toast, hash browns, omelets, muffins, eggs. Need I go on?

After brunch, we split up, half of us going to the Colombia Outlet.

The rest of the day we hung out and as I said, watched basketball, jumped on the trampoline, and napped.

Zaz in the play room/nook.

Lou, Peter, and Leah.

Aunt Betty and Mama catching up.

Oh, how I love trampolines! A beautiful day = beautiful pictures.

Charlie, Pete, and Lou.

Jumping for joy! Me!

Lou and I traded off with the camera, doing photo shoots of each other. So fun!

Portland

We've been here less than 24 hours and I've taken more than 150 pictures. Prepare for a picture overload sometime this week! This morning we went to a lacrosse game, Bob's Red Mill, and the Columbia Outlet. This afternoon was all about napping, jumping on the trampoline, and watching basketball.

Happy Saturday