March 15, 2003

• Good morning

  
  

  Gonna head out with the kiddos to get breaky at McD's.  I actually LIKE their breakfast.  And I'll let them play in the playland for awhile, and then we'll go to Walmart to pick up a birthday pressie for my niece whose gonna be 7 tomorrow. 

  
  

  Yesterday after DH let me sleep in until 9 (nice dh )  We decided to go for a drive.  First we went into town and got mommy some McD's breaky (I did say I liked it)  And then we decided to drive out to Neah Bay.  Neah Bay btw is LITERALLY the end of the world.  It is the farthest most NW point of the continental US.  The town itself is a typical Indian Reservation.  Enough said.    But the view around it is GORGEOUS.

  
  

  Had some intresting discussions about Native Americans.  (Though my friend whose married to an Indian refers to him as Indian ROFL)  And my kiddos are having a hard time seperating Indians as seen on Peter Pan from Indians in reality (there close friends CJ and Nakota)  I'm gonna have to e-mail my friend 'cause she needs a good laugh over the stupid things they said in trying to teach them reality.  hehehe 

  
  

  Last summer dh took the kiddos to a co-workers house who is extremely proud of his native heritage and has a tee pee in his yard.  HD was quite impressed and while in it says...."I know what Indians do they go like this  and put his hand over his mouth and started doing the ai-yi-yi-yi sound"  Fortunately John had a sense of humour.  Teaching a child to be PC is a very intresting job.  So sitting in the grocery parking lot yesterday Princess says EXTREMELY loudly.  "Mom, are there still Indians in this world?"  (mom has window open, and we're sitting on a Res)   "Yes, Princess, you know they are remember CJ, and Nakota, and Kira, they are your friends and they are Indian."  "Oh,"  Again Loudly.  "MOM WHATS A INDIAN RESERVATION?"   Okay, I give up.  So much for discretion in this child ROFL.

  
  

  So when we were driving again, we did a history lesson.  And I HATE giving those kinda history lessons.  Where so much wrong was done, and yet you understand some of the whys, but its not justified, etc, etc.  Its kinda like trying to teach My AA kids about slavery.  *sigh*  I think its time to have Peg & Sam over for dinner, and have Sam give us a homesschool lesson on Indians from his perspective.  He's done it before for people, he's actually a very good teacher. 

  
  

  Okay off that tangent.  I have pictures of our exploration.  Wanta see?  Their extremely beautiful.  (And nope I'm not prejudice)  So here's the end of the world, fortunately its beautiful.

  
  

  

  
  

  I should shrink that picture, but its too gorgeous to shrink, so there

  
  

      

  
  

  I played with this one of the boys a bit.  So its blurry on purpose.  Not sure if I like what I did now or not.    They had so much fun running around yesterday. 

                  

  
  

  The next picture was quite a pleasure.  On the way back from the beach we saw some Trumpeter Swans swimming in the river.  They of course did NOT want their pictures taken, so this was the best of what I took. 

  
  

                          

  
  

  And here's the Princess trying to build a sand castle.  Shortly after this picture was taken a wave decided she didn't need to build right there, and it washed away.  OOPS. 

  
  

              

  
  

  And one last picture of everybody enjoying the beach.  I was having so much fun with the fact that you could see everybodys reflections in the sand.  Raineebug btw was in a sling in my arms.  Which is why you can't see her in any pictures.  I had DH take one of me, but it was ewwy, so sorry you ain't seein me today.  LOL

  
  

                  

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