The Estlers: August 2012

Friday, August 31, 2012

Bears Like Cello

There's nothing I don't like about this photo

The Real Wes Anderson Fake Publications

Came across these sweet nuggets the other day and thought they were worth remembering...

If only they were actual

Ending August In La...(*)^%-!

It was a rough end to August.

We lost power last night, just until this morning. Small outage but none the less effective in interrupting, well, everything.

We (Yuula and I) spent a couple hours outside doing nothing in particular

She read some David Sedaris

I blew some bubbles

When Laura got home we went to a new (to us) place on 715 called Cook's Corner.

Good but the annoyance of the power out got to Yuula and she was not on her best behavior.

We went home and drank a few leftover party beers by candlelight and talked about what we'd do tomorrow (today), if there's power of course (there was).

The End

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

A Decent A Fair

After a the girls napped all day, everyone felt much better and a decision was made to go to the fair in Newfoundland.

approaching the gates we could tell this fair was no joke

one of the three rides Yuula met the height requirements for was the bouncy house

at first she was less bouncy and more house

we gave the horseys a go

she held her own this time and even mildly exclaimed "wee" once or twice, tho I don't think the horseys noticed

no?

a fair staple, a delectable classic

more horsey! she exclaimed, but her face doesn't tell that story

the space train went well at first

she lost it somewhere between Saturn and Jupiter (haha get it?)

there has never been a bad photo of a ferris wheel

more bouncy house, this time she's a pro

the sun dropped and the temperature plummeted

watching the world's worst magician

look! hog wrangling children

then we found Eileen

Susie will definitely hate this photo

WCF? you decide...

twilight at the fair

oh look, we're back at the bouncy house

Laura and I went on the Cliff Hanger, kind of cool, round and round on the angle but you get to go head first while you lay on your belly, like a hang glider, very relaxing.

In the time it took us to cliff hang Yuula had fallen asleep in Susie's arms. We decided rather than eat a $9 slice of pizza we'd go to their favorite restaurant, the Hotel, and grab a bite to eat. Yuula colored all of the placemats, including some of the table, and Eileen and Laura ate the biggest burgers I've ever seen. Susie and I were the lightweights. When the music jumped 10 decibels and the barflies started replacing dining folks it was clear the night was coming to an end. Good to see Eileen and Susie finally this summer. We still got a little bit of warm weather left so... we'll see what happens. Yuula was asleep before I could put the car in drive.