201th post! and am I due

I have a lot of things to post on..

Saturday we went to the beach about 5pm with Tiffany, George and Panos. It was kind of cool out, nice to sit in the sun, but the added bonus is after a year and half here, we finally saw Orcas off the coast.. there were about 8 sail boats sailing in circles and a bunch of splashed, fins and blows that we could see from Willows beach.. the whales were another point away, but it was amazing how much we could see (and of course, the binoculars were not in the car).

On Sunday, we went to the Saanich fair (I always sing the "We went to the animal fair, all the birds and beasts were there" in my head when ever I think of our trip)... Everyone on the island was there, it took about 30 minutes to even park. It had a midway, a bunch of rides, food, and all the things I associate with my memories of the Utah state fair (without the quilts!). First thing we put Zoe on the Merry-Go-Round.. thinking she'd love it.. I stood next to her on the horse that went up and down, she stayed on 2 turns around before insisting "all done".. so I just held her and onto a pole...and we waved to Daddy. I was quite dizzy when we got off ;) Next we looked around, found a bouncy slide she went down twice, she had a great time. That was pretty much it for the rides that looked Zoe appropriate. Then we went to find food, but decided to wait and went to find animals.. we saw donkeys, huge pigs which started oinking and scared Zoe (she clung to Daddy pretty good), we found a play area sponsored by the local milk company and then cows.. she got to pet the ear of a lovely Gernsey.. and then we say baby cows. We we got to the sheep, several of them were noted as being "naked" and some were "earing pajamas". She fell asleep in our arms and slept about 1.5 hours between us walking to the car and getting home.