This Has Been a Great Week

A really great week.

DH finished the Ride for Sight (Motorcyclists collect donations and all ride together along a certain route. Several charities benefit.) This was his first Ride. It was also the first time he had done this:

Yep, that's my DH, riding an off-road trail. I am so proud of him. He held his own with more experienced riders. The best part is how relaxed and...I dunno...more positive he's been since he got home. He had the whole week off, both to recuperate from the ride and to celebrate his birthday, which was on the 30th. We had plenty of activities to keep us busy. Yes, that's "activities", as in taking the kids to the library *and* "activities", as in every. single. day. *giggle*

Saturday the 1st was great. We invited another family over for a barbeque and fireworks. They brought some fireworks too, so we had a really long show. It was a lot of fun. They bought some that shoot up in the air. It was kinda windy. But! We lived on the edge, and shot them off anyway. We noticed that several of the neighbours came out and sat in their yards or on their porches to watch the show, so I didn't feel too bad about making all that noise. :-)

Today, we took one of DD's little friends to the miniature steam train thing at a local museum. There are maybe 25 hobbyists that get together once a month or so and give rides on their scale-model steam or diesel engines. We go all the time. It's so much fun, but you end up covered in soot. They're really hot too. I can only imagine what it must have been like to feed coal into a huge engine way back when. Yikes.