Maryland Visit July 2009

The farm was our first stop when we arrived in Maryland. My niece rides horses and this farm has become her second home. The reason we stopped at the farm first was because we had to drop off our cat. The farm has become Wuzzie's new family and she is adjusting really well. Dominic developed severe allergies to the cat over the past year and we were forced to give her up. A picture above shows Giana saying good bye to her kitty cat. So sad but she took it well. I think all of the other fun things to do at the farm distracted her. She fed and sat on the horses, ran around, watched my niece ride and just had a great time. We all did. I personally didn't get too close to the animals (nasty!) but Giana and Katie loved them. Even Dominic, my city boy, enjoyed himself...when he was able to pull himself away from his blackberry. When he had enough of the flies, we found him in the car with the air conditioning on and working on his laptop.

While the guys went golfing, the girls went to a place called "Smooch" and we all made our own lip gloss. It was really cool and something fun and different to do. With Aunt Wendy's help, Giana named her lip gloss "G-Gloss" and I named mine "September Love." The colors turned out really pretty. As a matter of fact, I like Giana's color as much as I like my own...so I've been wearing both!

The giant 25 foot slide! It was so much fun and we all had a great afternoon. My bother in law wiped out at the bottom of the slide and it was caught on camera. I didn't include the picture in my collage but I did add it to my Facebook pictures and tagged him for all to see! We would have played longer but a storm rolled in and we had to leave. And oh what fun it is to catch lightning bugs. Thank God my niece helped Giana because Dominic was asleep and I don't do bugs or barnyard animals. Yuck!