Thursday, August 14, 2008
Memorable
With a 4-year old, it's hard to know exactly what vacation memories we're making. Will Boo remember picking apples, feeding chickens, petting baby water buffalo, or crossing the wobbly, wooden suspension bridge? One thing's for certain...where their memories are concerned, the boys never cease to surprise.
Remember the game "Battleship", where you tried to find your opponent's ships using coordinates on a grid? The 2008 knock-off features paleontologists searching for dinosaur fossils. Not quite ready for a real match-up, Boo was decorating his grid this evening with white and red flags.
"You see here? It's a big fire! In Cowichan Bay! And everyone's safe because there's a whole mile between each of these markers!"
Cowichan Bay. Two blocks of waterfront shops, a few dozen sailboats, and a bakery and cheese shop worth another 2000 mile trip.
Now how did that name register in Boo's 4-year old brain?
Remember the game "Battleship", where you tried to find your opponent's ships using coordinates on a grid? The 2008 knock-off features paleontologists searching for dinosaur fossils. Not quite ready for a real match-up, Boo was decorating his grid this evening with white and red flags.
"You see here? It's a big fire! In Cowichan Bay! And everyone's safe because there's a whole mile between each of these markers!"
Cowichan Bay. Two blocks of waterfront shops, a few dozen sailboats, and a bakery and cheese shop worth another 2000 mile trip.
Now how did that name register in Boo's 4-year old brain?
