5 Month Birthday

 

Insta-blog from the oyster fest

Hi. Looks like summer is over. Still we are brave so are sitting outside in downtown manhattan; as you can see from the pic we are eating oysters and we may grab a crab cake or two later, washed down with some fine ale. All very civilised as long as it doesn't rain (bedraggled photos to follow).

Given that it is now winter bluet is wearing winter clothes for the first time - some stripy woollen tights, and a hoodie. So far she shows no sign of wanting to go looting. Instead she is cosy and sleeping despite the noise of oyster based revelry all around.

Happy Weekend

With 4,000 hits fast approaching, and Bluet celebrating her 5 month birthday today, I hope we can put up several posts over the weekend, so stay tuned to this station (and hit refresh repeatedly). To begin, here are a couple of vids from Yellowstone.

Bluet loving her car ride

A big geyser errupting

A picture from the weekend

Emily and Bluet went to the park to hang out with Michelle and friends. Here is a photo from that event.

And that, my friends, is our 100th post!

Live from the bus

We are on the bus to visit Steve, Dorthea & Caroline and now have an app that allows for the creation of pointless blogposts anytime and anyplace.

Let's see if it works.

Yellow is a nice stone*

Last weekend was a long one, so we took advantage by flying to Wyoming and visiting some of Emily's friends (Greg and Kara and their 2 small childs, Ben* (confusion ahoy!) and Teo). Ben is very talkative and interested in tractors, whilst Teo is around a month younger than Bluet. Both are very sweet.

The trip out was uneventful, and Bluet was able to catch up on her reading.

It was pretty cool to be in the Wyoming-Montana area for the first time - apparently (unbelievably) Wyoming is bigger than the Old Country.

But with many fewer people, and more bears.

What were the skies like when you were young? They ran on forever

It was wonderfully not humid compared to New York, and full of enormous mountains. Our first excursion was to Red Lodge, a mountain town with a restaurant selling vegetarian sausages for breakfast, and a small brewery selling delicious local beer and food. I approve of this behaviour.

NB Bluet had to borrow clothes because it was colder than we expected! Loaned shirt features Bucky the Badger of the University of Wisconsin American Football team

This is the only photo I have of Ben facing the right way

Then on Sunday we visited Yellowstone.

This was my first National Park in 31 years, and Bluet's first ever. You will probably have heard of Yellowstone either because it is the home of Yogi bear or because it is the home of Old Faithful, a giant geyser (which is, I am reliably informed, pronounced geezer - old faithful - old man, makes sense to me). I was expecting to see Lions and Tigers and Bears (Oh my) but sadly there were none. I suspect it was because it was the labour day weekend and they were staying out of the way of all the people (there were a lot of people). We did see some buffalo, elk and birds. And some cool natural features - e.g. stinky bubbling mud pits and an enormous waterfall, as well as some spectacular mountains on the way in.

O give me a home where the Buffalo roam

Waterfall (and the yellow stone of Yellowstone)

be thankful this isn't smelly vision

We had a tedious flight back with a 5 hour layover in Minneapolis airport (although this allows me to check another state off the list), and an hour wait for a taxi home. Throughout this all, Bluet behaved herself.

The intermission is over

Hey everyone, we were away over the weekend in Wyoming, more of which later (probably over the weekend). But, if "olds" are the opposite of "news", then boy, have we got olds for you. Here are some pictures of Bluet taking her first swim in a pool in Charleston Missouri, which must be almost a month old. She had fun, although she spent most of the time thinking about what was going on. In related news, she has now started splashing in the bath.