Sunday, January 16, 2011

The Circus came to town!!

Saturday was a wonderful sunny temperate California winter day. We walked over to Five Mile for a picnic, vitamin D, and Frisbee.




Katya still loves to climb trees.


We left the park and made our way across town to watch the Kent Family Circus. The father/ring master has turn his family of seven children into a traveling performing magic circus. Talent represented: mind reading, escape artist, dance-juggling, fire eating, illusions, animal tricks, and bull whip cracking.
We all had moments of laughing out loud and Katya was called out of the audience for the mind reading piece. She says that Princess Olivia actually read her mind!

The fire eating was very impressive!

Ross wanted to try the more dangerous tricks at home. The only sanctioned trick is caught in the two videos below, performed by Katya and Ross (the Mysterious Nayduchini). I'm new to video, so please shift your head so the video appears to be orient correctly (I promise next time I will film horizontally!)

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Walk in the park


A day or two before New Year's day, Katya and I enjoyed a walk in Bidwell Park between storms and happened upon these beautiful fungi. Katya used our walk to narrate, blow by blow, all of her favorite Sponge Bob episodes.