a rainy holiday
Noah in a happy moment!
Sasha in his glory!
The boys stuck inside yet again!
The past week we were on holiday at my parent's cabin in Shell Lake. The weather was terrible, it rained everyday at some point. I only got one day of tanning in so I'm still as white as ever! The boys had fun - well, I'm not sure about Noah because he's seemed to have hit the terrible twos early. Sasha on the other hand was in his glory! The boat was working and he went for rides or fishing with Paul three times a day. They actually caught quite a few fish... unfortunately Noah wouldn't let me come along. He HATED the boat. Not because he was scared of it or anything, but because he wasn't allowed to drive it! Everyday we try to take him for a ride and everyday I had to haul him (all forty pounds of him) up the hill and back to the cabin while he screamed at the top of his lungs and tried to bite and hit me in his baby rage!
Because of the rain, we watched a lot of movies over the week. A couple were surprisingly good; Death at a Funeral and Persepolis were my favorites. Persepolis was particularly well done - it's an animated film about Iran's recent history as seen through the eyes of the author of the graphic novel by the same name, Marjane Satrapi. The animation is fantastic and the story is deeply moving - a wonderful little movie that you should see if you have the chance. I plan to keep my eyes open for the graphic novel.
Another life-saver for us was the Planet Earth series by BBC. I watched a couple episodes on CBC when they played it a couple years ago. If you haven't seen it yet, you need to go and buy it or borrow it from someone. It was something that we could all enjoy watching together. The cinematography is awesome. There are rarely captured scenes of a fish that only exists in cave waterfalls in two caves in Vietnam, a pride of lions taking down an elephant, great white sharks jumping for seals in slow motion, and a terrifying scene of chimpanzees attacking a rival troupe (if you don't share my irrational fear of chimpanzees, you will after you watch that).
Other than Noah's daily freak outs, it was a good holiday. Sasha cried and cried when it was time to go home. "I wish we could live at the cabin!" he said through sobs and gulps. We have one more week later in August so hopefully the weather cooperates!
Labels: chimpazees, family, movies, summer
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