Emily (left), Madeleine and Daddy eating "ice cream" while waiting in the Vegas airport.While we didn't travel via horse-drawn sleigh, we did make it to Grandmother's (actually Grandpa and Grandma's - "Bapa and Mama") house on Tuesday. The girls did well on the flight. However, they seemed to remember the entire list of contents held in my airplane bag of tricks and went through all of their carry-on toys within the first hour. The other six and a half hours in the air seemed to drag a bit as we went through our recycled entertainment. The main highlights of the airplane adventure this time around were: the junior high choir singing Christmas carols in the Norfolk airport, the flight attendant singing after we landed in Vegas, use of the airplane's restroom facilities (although I was told "That room is too small."), and eating "ice cream" (frozen yogurt) in the Vegas airport while waiting for our connecting flight (there are no other "dining establishments" in that wing of the airport...). Thankfully, our flights were on time and our luggage made the trip with us.
Emily in front and Madeleine in back on our first, for this year, venture into the snow.
We had been told there was a lot of snow in Spokane and had passed this message along to the girls. Madeleine and Emily arrived with visions of snowmen and snow angels dancing in their wee heads. The day we arrived, the rain came. So.....our first day we went to the park and made a snowman with what was left of the snow, thankfully two year olds from Virginia aren't too discerning as to good and bad snow, and attempted snow angels. We have high hopes for more white stuff in the forecast.
Emily on Cocoa (left) and Madeleine on Sugar.
The girls were thrilled to see some equestrian pals waiting for them in their grandparents' family room. Cocoa is the brown horse, who their mother rode for miles and miles in her childhood, and the lighter horse is Sugar who joined the family about 1984 and is the former property of Aunt Liz and Uncle Kyle.
