Ted’s family has been visiting us from southern California for the last two weeks. It’s been two years since we’ve been able to give them all a hug! Luckily, Ted is able to work remotely and Erin is a teacher and can travel in the summer. The girls are 15 and 12. We try to plan a few activities but mostly we let them explore the area as they like.
Here are some photos of their visit. (Thank you, Erin, for having your camera ready…you took some wonderful pictures of your activities!)
Of course, no visit to Boalsburg is complete without a guided tour of the Boal Mansion Museum & the Christopher Columbus Chapel.Near the Mansion are lots of new trails with blueberries along the way.It was time to bake a cake to celebrate birthdays!Happy Birthday Erin, Annika and Aislinn!The girls were very helpful at bean picking time!There are always lots of craft projects at Grandma’s house.We had to try my new soap molds. (Gee, I look like I’m gritting my teeth! I wasn’t, really!)They couldn’t resist the local swimming pool. Lots of updated stuff since they were here several years ago.Ted remembers learning to swim at Whipple Dam, so they had to check it out.Most of the time Ted was hard at work……but who can resist a game of horseshoes!They couldn’t come to see Grandpa without a little shooting!This is what they were aiming for!And of course, a trip to the Penn State Creamery was necessary!They said the Creamery offered only one size of ice cream cone! Riiight!Can’t come see Grandma without checking out the greyhound kennel on the edge of town.This hound got special attention from Aislinn.The most exciting event of their visit seemed to be the huge thunderstorms we had this past week! California is dry right now and all that rain invited dashes off the porch to feel the rain.Three power outages gave us a chance to light all the lamps and remember why most people went to bed at dark way back then. Of course, we all had backlit e-readers and phones, so we were fine!The rainbows after the storms were impressive!That concludes some of the adventures with our California kids and grandkids! They will head out tomorrow to get home in time to get ready for a new school year. It was a great visit!
