Playland

Sydney and I met up with friends Leo, Levi and Henry from preschool this week to hit up Playland together.  This was Sydney's first time to go to Playland and did she ever have the time of her life!

There is a section made especially for young children with age appropriate rides, games and food.  The kids gleefully went on ride after ride and we had such fun playing a few carnival games too!

We ended up staying until later in the evening with Leo and his family to take in the Fair at the PNE as well.

We watched the famous Superdogs show and saw all the animals at the barn before grabbing a quick bite for dinner and heading home.

Syd even got to go for a little pony ride, which she loved!

What a fun and fabulous day together!

Sydney finished up her Cowboys and Angels ceramics camp this week with a bang!  Had her best day ever there on Friday with Julia and then headed to Julia's house for a fun playdate that afternoon before we headed home to have Shabbat dinner with Zach and Danielle.

On Saturday afternoon I upheld my long standing yearly tradition with my friend Paula and went to see Bard on the Beach.  We saw A Mid Summer Night's Dream together, loved the easy to follow plot, fabulous costumes and great laughs throughout.

Saturday evening brought a fun get together with the Dunbar gang at Sally and Allan's house for a backyard BBQ.  Summer is such a busy and lazy time all in the same moment that we haven't really connected with our Dunbar friends as much as we'd hoped to, so we were excited to see everyone and catch up.

I simply can't believe that we are headed into the last week of summer this week!  Sydney has been asking me constantly all summer if she can have both a garage sale and a lemonade stand.  She is obsessed with finding ways to earn money these days!

So this morning I obliged and helped her set up a little table outside.  We didn't have any lemonade available so she made due with glasses of water and a plate of Cheerios and had me write a note that read: "No credit cards or money, free food and drinks"

It was super cute!  We do live on a very quiet street so only a couple of people walked by this morning and when she saw them approaching she got up and ran away!  She's still honing her PR skills!

We spent our morning at Granville Island today and the annual Wooden Boat Festival was taking place there.  We had the chance to take Syd aboard a few beautiful old wooden boats to look around.

We went for an early evening run to Menchie's today and stopped at the lookout at UBC to catch the sunset together.  What an absolutely beautiful spot!

As we wind down our summer this week I am feeling grateful for all of the fun and fabulous memories that we made together over these past two months!