Time Off!

After a summer of pretty much constant work, Lisa and Mark decided to take the last few days of summer off to hang out with Emily before she went back to school.

We have been spending hours in the pool, watching movies together (thanks to Michael and Cindi's extensive DVD library), playing Nancy Drew on Emily's new laptop (thanks Grandad!) and just generally relaxing.

Yesterday we went out to Cable Beach and spent the day at the Cable Beach Resorts. We swam in their wide variety of pools, went down the water slides a bazillion times, hung out in the hot tubs, swam in the ocean, had a drink at the swim up bar (which Emily thought was the coolest) and made a fabulous sand castle. The camera was accidentally left in the car so no photos - sorry Nan!

Emily has been having fun with her China presents. Tons of new outfits for Marisol and Sophie, a flying saucer thingy (too hard to explain but destined to get lost in the ocean - we had to drive to a parking lot to do it properly because this thing goes SO high) and today her new dragon-fly kite. This is the kite that Lisa bought on the Bund in Shanghai. The sales lady quoted her a price of $15 and then chased after Lisa on her roller-blades for about 10 minutes before she got down to a realistic price for bits of tissue paper and toothpicks.

School starts tomorrow so we will be back to normal. Try telling that to night-owl Emmy!

Here she is with her kite...