Hiccups

Our lovely hosts and their lovely home:


Went to 3 parks today. Started with Gibbons Park in London for a picnic with a dear university friend and her kids.

Also checked out a new park in Strathroy.


Went to back to my BILs (brother in law) for a dip in the kiddie pool followed by after-supper play at the park across the street.

So if you want to know our secret for doing big road trips with kids, here it is: we stumble along and somehow avoid total disaster.

Like today. I have been planning this trip for months, knowing we would be crossing the border to the US. Did it once occur to me to make sure passports were in order? No. Did I make sure the kids had proof of citizenship? No. I made a panicked phone call to DH at 1:30 this afternoon as I was leaving Gibbons Park. We are supposed to cross the border tomorrow at lunch.

It just so happens that we had our passports in our glove compartment - left over from our last trip. The girls' had expired and their birth certificates were at home. As luck would have it, kids only need proof of citizeship to cross land borders and photocopies are acceptable. Since we have a scanner, we asked our housesitter to email us scans of the birth certificates. See? Disaster averted. Wonder what the next hiccup will be?