Went to Atlanta Zoo today. The baby panda was called Lei Man and was so cute! It was mainly what we had gone to see. It was two hours each way but the kids love their car dvd player so we didn't hear a thing from them!
It was cooler than here in Augusta, about 39 degrees, and the kids said they were freezing so we had to buywooly hats as soon as we got there.
Had a lovely surprise when we got home, our neighbours Christina, Nicholas and baby Thomas had baked us some lovely Easter Cup Cakes !
After dinner the boys made a card for Thomas and we put some Easter goodies in for him.
We are going to Mike and Mary's tomorrow for Easter dinner, after the bunny visits us!!!

Rest of the Break

Well, we have just been hanging out this week. Had a trip to the library and a bite to eat in the cafe. The boys love going to the library, they use the computers and take ages to pick books , and the little cafe does good coffee and sandwiches.
We went to Kohls and bought loads for the garden, all we need now is an actual bbq!

THURSDAY - had a call from Mike to say Mary and the girls are meeting for happy hour at five at "Pizza Joint" if i wanted to join them! If I wanted to!!!!!
Took Mary a birthday present, poor thing had been poorly on her birthday, and sat by myself having a lovely pint of strongbow, until the others came. Met Shelley again and later on Kathy arrived.
You know in the movies where a guy asks the barmaid what your drinking, and sends one over with the waitress, who says..."The gentleman at the bar wants to buy you a drink and sent this over" . It really happens!!! Only with me it wasn't exactly a sophisticated cocktail or a classy glass of wine. Just a bloody pint of Strongbow, hee hee. Kirsty will be so proud!
It was so nice sitting and chilling with the girls..................
Till Mr Smith turned up, with the kids in the bar to pick me up!!!

Mr Smith visits the Masters!!!!!!!

The Masters 2007

Click on the photo above to see the web album.........

After a Monday evening phone call from Vic, Mr Smith decided to try and get into the Masters for the Tuesday afternoon practice session. According to Vic, who heard it from someone else, if you go down to the area around the gates, as people leave for the day, if you are very nice, some people will give up their badge for the remainder of the day. After about 20 minutes of asking people, Mr Smith found a party of four senior citizens who were leaving for the day and they kindly gave up a badge to him. To say Mr Smith was ecstatic would be an understatement. Three hours and a couple of hundred dollars in souvenirs later, Mr Smith returned home. Next year he is planning on actually paying for a ticket!






Mr Smith at the 13th Green at the Masters

You don't even have to sweep up here. You just take your giant hairdryer outside and it deals with the leaves!


Ethan making pancakes.

Spring Break- Day 1

Ah the joy of not having to jump out of bed to an alarm clock and get up for school!
Alex had some friends round, and I started exercising again, (feels quite good actually- don't tell anyone!)
Not so joyful- finding a brown recluse spider on the back door step. Eth was throwing shoes at it from a distance and then Alex sprayed it with the hornet spray. It died!
Now I don't want to be considered a baby, but that is now a count of 1 poisonous black widow spider out the front and now 1 poisonous brown recluse on the back door step! Hello???.....is it just me? or is this to be considered acceptable. I think not!!!
Just waiting for the deadly snakes and the gators and we will have a full house!

The thing about the snakes is that there are two almost identical here. One is deadly, the Coral snake, and one is harmless, the King snake! One has black, yellow and red stripes, and one has red, black and yellow stripes. You have to see how the stripes go and there is a rhyme - "black and yella, kill a fella, red and black, friend of Jack."
So if you see a snake with yellow rings next to black with no red in between, run! Then again, by the time you have studied the snake, remembered the rhyme and got your trainers on your probably dead anyway!!!

Cooked my first Sunday roast, on a Monday, since we got here. It was great, but without Aunt Bessie's company for dinner, I had to make roast spuds and Yorkshire puds from scratch. God- Live is just too short!!! But thanks to Carol for the pud recipe- needs a bit practice I think. but really, they weren't bad!!
Watched Happy Feet, well...until I fell asleep from boredom!

Life after the lizard

Bit of a boring day really. After the initial "delight" of finding a lizard in the bedroom.
Did some shopping on base, god it's weird to be back in a commissary! And by the time we got back after washing my baby... sorry my car, it was dinner time.
It's so nice to know we do not have to get up for school in the morning. YEAH , Spring Break!
Had a chat with Jen, cant think why Mart minds being woken up....it's only 3 am hee hee. Sorry Mart!

Lizard Alert!!

Aaahhh!!! There is a lizard in my bedroom!!