Botanical Garden and Harborfest

This weekend is our last before Sergio dives back into work.  He's been very busy and away a lot the last couple months.  The past two weeks we have enjoyed a less demanding schedule.  While we still dream of a vacation and actually taking leave someday (in the civilian world leave = paid vacation) we enjoyed exploring our new home.

We bought an annual family membership to the local Botanical Garden.  Normally it's $8/person/day for the military rate, but with membership we can bring up to 6 people with each visit.  So future visitors can expect the gardens on their itinerary.  They also have bike nights during the summer, so once I get a bike we plan on going for family bike rides.  We did not get to cover all of the grounds, and there is so much more to see, but they had a wonderful kids area with water play.  This was Hannah's favorite and ours as well.

Next time we'll bring her swimsuit. They provide lockers for changing.  Luckily I always carry an extra pair of clothes with me; except it was so hot we let Hannah sun dry as we made our way to the car.  

On Friday we went to the Harborfest.  It is a 3-day festival on the harbor downtown.  They had live music, wine tasting, food, and vendors.  We tasted a couple different wines from a local vineyard, while Hannah enjoyed her sippy cup.  Then made our way to the slurpee truck.  While we enjoyed our slurpee (which Hannah enjoyed too) we watched some live performances.  The first was Asphalt Orchestra.

Hannah was just captivated by them.  

Then we watched the Kenya Safari Acrobats.  I'll just let the pictures speak for this act.

There was a cute puppet show set up in an air conditioned area, where we took a break from the sun.  We then enjoyed time on the lawn listening to the night act rehearsing and setting up.  Hannah had a blast toddling around the grass.  It was a wonderful family day. 

This has nothing to do with the post title, but I'll fit it in.  We found a church and are very excited!!!  With every move comes church shopping.  Finding a new church can be a daunting task, when it shouldn't be.  This time we wanted a church ASAP so we can get plugged in and have a church family again.  Something we miss a lot.  Sometimes it can take several months to find the right church, and when we have it seems like we're already packing to move.  Thankfully to the internet many churches now have websites and we're able to narrow our search much quicker.  After shopping around a bit, a couple Sunday morning services and the newcomer's coffee we attended tonight, we feel it's our new home.  We're excited to see the plans God has for us and what's to come next.