Tessie got her first dose of Circus Smirkus. Like most of this summer, it was a super hot and sunny day under the big top.
Off to our summer picnic
Wilson Farm was having an ice cream festival that we couldn't miss
Glad to see that 2016 still has some crazy dress-ups left in it
Tessie is quite the garden raider. She loves the potato plants, especially the sungold potatoes. Here she found all the okra. We're hoping that the pumpkins remain unscathed until picking time.
Claire's crew came through on their way up to Maine. We showed them our pick-your-own Massachusetts blueberries and collected over 9 lbs!
Kids dinner, after face paint time.
The following weekend Dad and the older girls went to NY and took Claire's crew up to Hyde Park for a National Park site trifecta. Eleanor Roosevelt's home-away-from-home at Val-kill was the first park where we earned Junior Ranger badges right on the spot at the visitor center.
An outdoor grill, apparently built especially low to accomodate FDR in his wheelchair
The only place in the house where we were allowed to sit where Eleanor herself had sat. This room is where she entertained JFK in 1960 and convinced him to take on Civil Rights if elected President in exchange for her support for his candidacy.
Of all the lavish estates along the Hudson, why is this Vanderbilt Mansion a National Historic Site? Even the visitor center doesn't seem to know, and strikingly had not a word of history about the Vanderbilts and their robber baron ways. Quite a nice spot for a picnic, though.
When the bronze poured out of the volcano, Eleanor and Franklin were frozen on their patio. Watch out, Erin!
Thanks to Sabrina's 4th grade all access pass, we took the Hyde Park home tour. Photos courtesy of Erin.
So, if I call my home office my snuggery, I can get my breakfast delivered and order around my servants? I'm on it!
There's that 1939 television
Erin's artistic touch
After a grueling Junior Secret Service booklet, the crew was rewarded with star badges and the promise that the next time the Secret Service needs help, the kids'll get a call. Rowan kept asking if this were true.
Meanwhile, while everyone else was gallivanting, poor Peter was left to repair the dock.
His galoshes looked great, but were no match for the muck
Twelve hours later, the job was finished, the dock looking better than ever
Killing time at Val-kill while Claire perused the bookstore
Physical fitness check
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