Wakehurst parkway playground

Mykaela waving from the top of the climbing frame.

Claude is scare just watching her.

Grand dad having fun with Amelia.

Mykaela is in the big children play ground.

The toddler area is enclosed and has a safety gate.

Amelia is too little for the slippery dip yet,

but she want to go on it....

The 2 sisters having fun.

You are too big for this swing, Mykaela.

Thank you Mykaela.

My turn now.

Amelia enjoyed that.

Mykaela went down the slippery dip

in all different ways.

A big cuddle on top of the dragon.

The park is full of sandstone carving.

I should do a blog just with them......

let's go for a walk.

Mykaela made friend with Ella and her brother.

All that play gave her a thirst.

New hair do

Monday 12 October.

School holidays, this means I have the 2 girls this week.

Having fun with the bubbles.

Do you like my new hair do?

Tuesday 13 October

Mykaela was watching cartoons.

Amelia wanted her sister.

No peace for Mykaela.

This was how I found her, a first for me.

She was not standing in her bed before I left.
The mattress will have to be lowered

She is on the move

Saturday 10 October.

we hadn't seen Amelia for over a month.

She is now crawling all over the place.

And went to places she never been before.

The VCR

Oh Oh Grand dad did not put his VD away...

Good girl Amelia.
She is putting them back.

Good girl.
bravo!!

She is applauding herself.

clever girl.

A race with grand dad

Back from holidays

We already been in France for4 days.

Saw and stay with family. We are on our way to Rouen

to see and stay with more family.

Stopped at Vigny and took this photo of and old castle.

Now it is a private residence

Stop for lunch at Giverny.

This is the garden of Claude Monet.

Had a $36 salad ($72 for us both)

La Rochelle

After driving all along the French coast
across Spain we arrived in Portugal
the house on the Costa Nova.

Portugal: Nazere

Portugal: Lisboa, Lisbone.

yes I am wearing my bag back to front.

this morning i have been rob.

Boy i let him have it I could have kill him

and with Claude yelling "policia, policia"

He gave me back my camera bag.

I felt in love with the pots in ceramic.

Back in Spain. Seville

people leave their door open but there is a gate.

they live at the bottom of the house in summer and the top in winter

Gibraltar.

did you know that this rock is full of tunnels and caves?

Amazing.

Spain: the Alhambra

the beauty of it.

What a lot of work went into the decoration.

the Alhambra

a very steep Little road in the

Spanish Pyrenees

Andorra

back to France

les ramparts de Carcassonne

Baux en Provence.

YES I am.

I am dancing on the bridge of Avignon

like they say in the children song.

Avignon bridge, what is left of it

the pont du Gard

the viaduc de Millau

the viaduct of Garabit

created by

Gustave Eiffel from the Eiffel tower.

Back in Paris.

we are leaving the next day

All in all a very intensive holiday.

We saw a lot of interesting

buildings and lovely scenery.

Every day we visited something.

We did 7000km

When I got home I slept for 24 hours.

Claude is in trainning

Claude is on holidays this week.

We thought it was a good idea that he did

more activities with his grand daughter.

I changed the nappy, he feed her.

Amelia on all 4.

sometime she goes up.......

and flop back down.

She pushed so hard with one foot that

she flipped over.

I couldn't believe it.

I think it gave her a scare.

Lucky that she was not near furniture.

Claude playing with her.

He is putting the stacking cups on her feet

Saying they were shoes.

Few hours later in the afternoon she was trying to do the same.

Ready to crawl.

Taking the sun.

Among the flowers.

On the deck.

Oh something to eat!

She picked the smallest gum nuts.