New Playground

Our apartment complex has a new playground.  The girls couldn't wait for the fences to come down and the playground to finally be open.

Testing out the trampoline.

Log cabin before the sand box.

The main attraction the "man in the park".

Syd approves of the slide.

Side view of the man in the park - this is also how Ashlyn climbs up to the slide.

Sydney's favorite swing.

The girls on the normal swings.  

Needless to say the playground is a hit - we're there as often as the weather allows. 

Bathing Beauties

The girls couldn't wait for warm weather to get wet.  We were at David's parents house and we had 2 days of close to 30 degrees - so the 2nd day the girls weren't interested in the sand at all but water was a huge hit.  They stayed in til they had purplish lips and frozen fingers, but had tons of fun splashing around.

You gotta love nature

Generally, I (David) never write a blog but someting happend that I think I should share. First it was a bit scary but now its rather funny, even in a weird way.

So I started going to work with my new bike. It's only about 10 km one way. Well this Friday was my second time. On my way home something rather unexpected happend. I was attacked by a scavenger bird, probably a hawk. I was riding through the forest and suddenly something smacked against my head. It felt like somebody hit me with a soccer ball. At home I took my helmet of to see if the bird left a mark. Well it did, but see for yourself:

I guess I was lucky it went straight for my head and that I had a helmet. But then, the helmet probably was the reason in the first place why it attacked me.

So here a picture of my mortal enemy:

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You gotta love nature, eh?