Life with a mask

 December 2, 2020

Kids are at camp again, this time for a day and a half each week. The rest of the time we're doing schoolwork at home and waiting for the schools to open again. Supposedly and hopefully, it will be mid-January. 

We took a week off (between camp sessions) to go to Big Sur where we camped for two nights. Then we stayed at a hotel for one night, in Monterey. On the drive home, we talked about our favorite parts of the trip. These were some:

dinner by the fire together

smores and roasted banana boats at the fire

playing in the tent, mostly as baby zombies

scooting around the parking lot of the hotel

sleeping in the tent, all snuggly 

picking mussels and eating them (after cooking them)

the making/building of the fires

instant oatmeal and hot chocolate

bridge across the river, photographed below, with stripes of cement

great hike up the mountain

purple sand at Pfeiffer Beach, where the sand was super-coarse and pretty

dunes and the sand, but Aviva didn't like the wind

the dust devil or tornados around Noah

played on the beach in Monterey with little tide pools

second beach with great tide pools with sea anemones and a sea star and lots of shells to look at

watching a good movie in the car on the way back

   

Something else the kids are busy with is dominoes. He likes to make long and complicated paths, and then he uses my phone to video the movement in slo-mo. She makes little houses for little figures. 

This is some of Aviva's work lately:

She has also been making nice hairdos for me:

Noah has been learning at camp how to make things with bamboo. He's made some instruments:

Lastly, we've been eating and de-seeding pomegranites and the kids are good at helping