Happy Victoria/Two-Four Day!

Today is the first day it hasn't rained in almost a week now, which is great for our grass seed, but not so good for our social life. Still, we try not to let it get us down because it always pours this time of year and we know it means really nice weather is just around the corner. We've had a busy week with friends. We had three playdates, where I was actually able to relax and drink my coffee while it was still hot (what a novel concept!) and the kids didn't completely destroy the house. I did hear intermittent loud thumps, followed by the crashing sound of toy bins being dumped out, but nothing that couldn't be cleaned up later.

We attended a friend's birthday party at Chuck E Cheese, which is always an adventure. Dayven and I both agreed it was actually a lot more fun that we were expecting it to be, although his mood improved dramatically when he realized they served beer.

Wyatt has a love-hate relationship with the jet pack adventure game. It's so scary, it almost makes him cry, but he always begs for more tokens so he can do it again.

It rained almost the entire "May Long Weekend" so we didn't do much outside. May 24 is a holiday in Canada ("Victoria Day"to celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday) so Dayven had the day off, hence the long weekend. Since there are little ties to Britain any more, many Canadians jokingly refer to the holiday as "May two-four day" (2-4 refers to a 24 pack/case of beer) because May Long Weekend is unofficially the start of warm weather and beer sales start to soar. Fire up the grill and pop the top on a cold one!

We always enjoy having Dayven home for a long weekend. We went to breakfast at our favourite spot, played inside, ran a few errands and puttered around the house finishing up a few little projects. Today the sun finally peeked through the clouds so we could get back outside. Yeah, summer is just around the corner!