Wednesday 3 September 2008

The End of Summer

We just had Labor Day (excuse the spelling) weekend which means: a bank holiday weekend, the official end of Summer, and schools start the next week.

Dan will not start until the 4th as he is doing only half days, but he still gets picked up by a school bus which is quite exciting and its hard not to feel a little nervous for him as he (and all the other children) are on their own the minute they get onto the bus before going to a school whee they only speak French. If it wasn't for the fact that this will be Dan's 3rd school I'm sure we'd be even more nervous.

To make the most of the last long weekend of the Summer we went to the local beach, which is now closed (you can see the sign) but it was 32C/90F outside so as you can also see everyone was making the most of it.

And Becky continues to enjoy ice-lollies



And now that Dan has learned to ride his bike he loves being on it, we often go for rides together in the evening after I get back from work. The other day while cycling he said 'I love cycling, I'm never going to walk anywhere ever again'. However we had a school open evening at our local park and he was racing someone and came off his bike and got some spectacular bruises, cuts and grazes as well as ripping some of the plastic off of his helmet. In fact it was a bit of a bloodbath all round with several children having bad cuts and at least on requiring stitches.

What is fast, goes round in circles and is only really interesting if there's a crash?
a) Grand Prix
b) Dan on his bike in the driveway

Answer is a or b, so by that definition the clip below is not all that exciting.

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