Swim Lessons

 I finally put Delaney and Rylee into swim lessons.  They are at a most inconvenient time, but I figured I could suck it up for two weeks.  So every day we have gone to the pool at 5 (or earlier if we want to play!) for lessons.  Rylee is in level 2, but it is really level 3 that she's doing.  Delaney is in level 4 and has not enjoyed it because although she can swim, she does not actually know any real strokes.  It has been hard for her to learn to do them, but she has done a great job.

The weather was yucky the first day so we were at the indoor pool.

Rylee in her class. 

Delaney, learning the proper Elementary Backstroke movements. 

Rylee at the outdoor pool. 

Working on her breathing technique. 

Delaney learning the butterfly. 

My little chute pie! 

Ready to jump in. 

She loves jumping thru the hoop. 

Her back float has some issues. 

Rylee going down the slide. 

Delaney was doing some awesome dives, but had an unfortunate belly flop incident. So she;s just been jumping in from the blocks lately. 

Delaney in the big slide. 

Hee hee hee!

Some Critters

This is Peel.  He is a large banana spider who lives on the back porch.  The girls enjoy tossing bugs into his web for him to eat.

This is a giant moth. 

He was rather impressive. 

Everyone needed a picture with him. 

Rylee was quite cute. 

Marian had to rescue him from Levi, and then we helped him fly over the fence. 

This is not a real critter.  It is the awesome mermaid-tail blanket my darling sister made for me.  It is fabulous for couch naps!

Almost Home!

 The last flight was from Seoul to Hiroshima and was about 90 minutes long.  (Then there was just the 90 minute drive home from there!) The last flight went well.  Josh conked out as soon as we took off.  He was so tired, he did not wake up at all.  I tried.  I tried to wake him up several times so he could eat his delicious lunch they served.  He would open his eyes and talk to me and say yes, he wanted lunch, and then his eyes would close and he was gone again.

Totally zonked. Poor kid actually head bobbled so hard I thought he might hurt himself.

Never did get his lunch.  I had to shake him awake after landing. 

Callie used her peel apart Twizzlers to make jewelry for herself.  Hey, whatever keeps them happy and quiet!

PS
Dan left the van exactly where he said he would when he left for his 2 weeks of training which prevented him from coming to pick us up. And he left a door unlocked so I could get in it!  He left the phone,  and money for parking and tolls.

We survived the 90 minute drive home and arrived to our house about 3pm Sunday (July 31) afternoon, and boy were we glad to be there!!

Seoul Airport

 We left Chicago at midnight and had a 14 hour flight to Seoul Korea.  We arrived at 0400 Korea time (which is also Japan time). the airport there is fantastic.  We spent a few hours in the lounge with comfy reclining chairs for napping, and the kids played on electronics, and I got a shower. We found food and played in the play area and finally left at 10 am.

We saw Mr Bones here and photos were necessary.

Rylee with the skeleton. 

Delaney also needed to hold hands with him. 

There were quite a few of these in different poses around the airport. 

Callie had to do a high-five. 

Ryde could not decide on a pose. 

 But Delaney did!

How many selfies does it take....?!

 After the Children's Museum, we went to the Chicago Temple.  It was closed for maintenance, but we were able to go in to the parking lot and try to get pictures.  There wasn't a great angle, and there was construction stuff all over.  So we tried to get a group selfie.  It didn't quite work out! But we had fun trying to fit all of us in.