We got our swingset already. But haven't set it up because it is still snowing or raining and dh is having late nights these few days. Yet, the kids were raring to go, so I took the slide portion out and placed it on our sofa. Then added a stool at the side (for climbing up).
Below: in their rare loving moments, so I had to capture it. I was late in cooking lunch and gave each a banana to fill them up first, then sat them down to watch a VCD. I rushed off to the kitchen to cook, but popped my head out once in a while. Saw them sitting close tog and eating the bananas... quite heartwarming so dashed off to get my cam... maybe it was a scary part of the show ("Ant Bully"--my sis bought for them) so they needed comfort from each other. :-)
Didn't realise the National Parks are so popular. Lodging at Redwood and Yosemite NPs are all booked a few months ago. So we will stay at motels outside the NPs and do day trips into the NPs for a week late May. The rates are cheaper than motels within the NPs so it's ok, we lose out on time, but save money. And we'll be away from the bears too, hee.
While booking lodging for Yosemite, I read that if you stay at the campgrounds you need to pack food into special bear-proof containers, else the bears will come out since they have a keen sense of smell. They have lots of info on what to do if you meet a bear too. :-) Scary but exciting! I would so love to see bears catching salmon, hee...from far, that is...
We will be driving down again. Was concerned that dh may not be able to take it, but he is very garang and says no problem... Both NPs are really far from here, and on top of that, these 2 NPs are far from each other. 10-14 hours drive each time. Like driving to Thailand from Singapore again.
Below: light snow these few days... so we've decided to go skiing tmr. it'd prob be the last time this season, cos after this there should be very little snow left.
