Friday the Thirteen (delayed)

Last Friday we left home and this Friday we're still away from home.  Here's a list of thirteen things about my last week, in no particular order.

1. I became an AUNTIE!  James was born last Friday.  We were passing through town and planned on stopping in to see my sister who was being induced.  Turns out he was born while we were sitting in the parking lot while I nursed Peaches.  All is well with everyone.  We'll be staying with them in a couple of days!

2. I took 2 ferry rides.

3. I ate lavender shortbread and drank red wine (not necessarily together).

4. I spent very little time on the computer.  We had limited dial-up so I all I really did was check email.  As a result, I found I missed inter-web-land.

5. I enjoyed visits with old friends that were entirely too short and didn't manage to connect with some others.

6. I watched several float plans land and take off - the joys of staying right on the Harbour.  Gus learned to say 'plane float on water' and watching them was his favourite thing to do, after playing cars with Grandpa.  Here's a shout-out to my f.i.l. for hours of car-playing, goldbug-searching, plane-watching, dinner-making, grocery-getting, wine-pouring, and baby-carrying.  My thanks.  (And for those of you who know me in rl, my m.i.l. was in India at the time - now en route home- and, sadly, missed all that car-playing.)

7. I also watched a passenger train pass us by twice a day.

8. I wandered Chinatown and other cool shops sans Gus while Peaches slept in her wrap.  In particular I perused cool baby/kid stores with beautiful things like handmade organic cotton sleepers for $70.  I found myself wishing I could do the wandering thing more, but things like feedings and naps and life got in the way.
 
9.Since we've been gone, we know of three babies who have been born.  Since Thanksgiving the total is up to 6, mostly boys: Daniel, Liza, Matthew, James, Lucas, & Maerk.
 
10. We took a little ride just out of town to see the salmon run.  The air was cool, the ground wet, the smell of rotting fish was strong, the gulls were gorging.  I am amazed at the strength of those fish as they swim up stream, or flop about finding more water if they find themselves in shallows.  Gus spent much of his time there saying "[Gus] see planes."  Guess what he and Grandpa did when they got home? 

11. Peaches continues to have periods of 5-6 hours of sleep.  One night, she even did 7 hours, though that was preceded by a day of about 3 hours of cumulative sleep.  She's a terrible day sleeper.

12. Both Chris and Gus had sore throats and strained voices.  This was especially unfortunate for Chris since the whole purpose of our trip was work-related for him - he had to spend his days teaching his course!  Surprisingly, I haven't succumbed to this round of colds.  Yet.

13.  There's still more trip to enjoy and since the work portion is finished, it's just all friends and all family all the time!