Marineland (Sea World)

Since we have moved to Biot, France we have taken the kids to Biot, Valbonne, Antibes, Mougin, and Grasse.

In Mougin, we found an artist that was having a 50 percent off sale, so we got a ladybug painting for Sarah and a small painting of Provence for ourselves. They were a great find condsidering artwork in Mougin is usually very expensive. It was neat to actaully talk to the artist!

Today January 1, 2011, we took the kids to Marineland (Sea World). We had a great time seeing the Sea lions shows (sea lions, &elephant sea lion) and Orca whale show. It was great to see the Sea Lions have a a mind of their own. Both groups of Sea lions performing had at least one that would sometimes do what the trainer wants and then do the trick they wanted to do. It was great to see personality.

The Orca whale show was Fabulous! They had 4 whales in the show. What beuatiful animals with speed and grace!

Marineland had serveral neat playgrounds in addtion to the attractions and shows, which the kids enjoyed. It helped to keep their attention with the attractions/shows with playground breaks!

We all had a great time!

Tomorrow we are headed to Cagnes Sur Mer, it is also called the city of painters. Its the honme to one of my favorite painters, Renoir in addtion to many others. See the articles below.


http://www.provenceweb.fr/e/alpmarit/cagnes/cagnes.htm



http://www.cagnes-tourisme.com/


http://www.google.com/images?rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS407US407&q=cagne+sur+mer&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=DW4fTYyVOM-u8QOlmvW7BQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=2&ved=0CDEQsAQwAQ&biw=1579&bih=582



We are definatly spoiled by the travel opportunites that we have enjoyed taken advantage of!! Many more to come!

Cute Pictures in November!!

After Sean got his haircut, he was so proud of himself, so we got really big smiles!

Sarah is wearing purple overalls that I wore as a child. She really thought that was cool!

Halloween!

Both kids really enjoyed Halloween! Sarah was Little Red Riding Hood, while Sean was a Cow (his favorite animal). Sarah and Sean both enjoyed trick or treating with our neighbor!

Cox Farm!

Sean's preschool took a trip to Cox Farm. Mark and I went along with Sean. Sean had a great time. He got to milk a cow and feed some cows! Sean also enjoyed all the slides and haystack underground maze. We all had a great time!

Sesame Place

We took the kids to Sesame Place for their Halloween weekend. The kids were allowed to dress up. Sarah dressed up in her Little Red Riding Hood costume. The park was not crowded so it was stress free visit. We saw two out of the three shows, the kids trick or treated around the park, walked through a maze, rode the rides and at the end did a hayride. Sarah was picked to be in the Elmo's World Halloween Show. Sarah was one of the ghosts in the show. We all had a great time!

Great Falls!

We took the kids and Mark's grandmother to Great Falls! Even though it was raining off and on, we had a great time! Because of the rain we didn't picnic like we usually do, but we had a great lunch at Cheesecake Factory.