Fun with Babcia and the kids

Last week Tuesday- mom and I took Ella out to Harry's for lunch and then we were headed to the zoo. But when we were driving up the river- mom was saying how she always wanted to walk the break wall- and since we had nothing better to do-and there is no time like the present- we went! It was really nice- you could check out the water, Canada, fish and all the weirdos of Buffalo who also had nothing to do on a Tuesday afternoon- we fit in great!

On Saturday- it was raining like crazy and mom had Kelly's kids because Kelly was out "golfing". So we all had the rainy day blues and nothing to do- or any money for that matter.

I had heard about the civil war reenactment in Amherst- so we took the kids out to see a real battle. They were all super excited when we got in the car.



And they were all asleep 15 mins later when we got there...

But it was great, we were all pretty much soaked from the rain but we had lots of fun. In fact, Uncle Don and Marcus were there too. I think Josh's favorite part was the blacksmith. He was making a spoon and Josh thought it was the coolest thing ever. Actually the blacksmith may have been second only to the big cannons. They were crazy loud. The ground shook when they were fired- and Ella didn't even cry- she's super tough.



I asked the kids to pick a side before the battle started- they both picked blue because there looked like there were more blue then gray. It was unclear who won in the end cause a lot of the blue guys died- so we went over the the union camp and Josh asked if they won- but the guy we asked remained in character and said he was shot in the beginning and then was captured and released- so he wasn't sure...annoying. So I told Josh to go home and look it up.

I think everyone had a great time- even Ella- she got to really be out in the rain for the first time.

Well- I hope the blue team won!