Family time

Snow's Mom, Jane, returns to China next week, so we thought it would be nice to bring her to the house to see where we live.  When we first moved out to America we brought my Mom over to help settle us in, so we knew how much it would mean to her.  We enjoyed getting to know each other better over dinner and finding some common ground.  We share the love of tea, so Jane kindly left us some Chinese loose leaf tea - black and green mainly - which is so much better than the bagged variety.

   Snow and her Mom

On Sunday we had our first family outing to King Richards' Faire.  It was a renaissance fair offering various medieval themed shows such as jousting, juggling, fire-eating and freak sideshows.  It's not for everyone and after being there for 20 minutes we realised it wasn't for us either.  If we hadn't invested an hour and a half to get there and a decent entry fee we would have left right after we saw the guy who knocked a four inch nail up his nose and put hooks into his eyes.  It wasn't just the shows that were weird, the people were too, and by that I mean it was hard to distinguish the workers from the guests.  Seriously, there were people of all ages dressed up like Robin Hood and Maid Marian complete with Dr Spock ears and fox tails....I'm not sure what that is about.  On the journey home Molly made me promise never to take her again.  It won't be hard to keep that promise.

   Snow and Molly