After leaving Tembagapura, Ben headed off to start his new job (and find a car to buy, a house to rent, etc), and the girls and I headed to Vermont and Michigan for a little family vacation. While in Vermont we got to see the Strolling of the Heifers parade, despite the rain and cold, and I took the girls to a performance of Russian orchestra music at the Latchis theater (The Firebird, Romeo & Juliet, and one other piece I’ve forgotten…). They were very well behaved at the concert, and when they just couldn’t sit still any longer, we went out to the lobby and they danced to the music which we could still hear.
In MIchigan we met up with cousins from the Zak side, as well as Uncle Matt, and Grandma and Grandpa Z. There were six little girl cousins, and D and HK were both smitten by them and loved boating and swimming and playing together for a week. Then we headed down to celebrate Great Grandma Webb’s birthday at the cottage with Ben’s cousins. Diana was much less shy this time around and clung to “Brandron an Kendra”. She also managed to make cousins dig a hole in the sand big enough for a car while doing very little of the work herself. She’s a little con artist.
We spent time in Ann Arbor with Grandma Mona and Grandpa Keith and Modjo. Both girls were very tentative about the big barks and sniffs at first, but were soon good friends with Modjo. The girls had a great time at the Children’s Museum as well, with Diana already showing some geologist tendancies 🙂
A good trip was had by all, and both girls were champs on the short trip from Detroit to Bellingham, as (almost) always.
