How we marked the end of school

It was a half day today so after dropping the girls off and then running errands it was back to their schools to pick them up.  I started with Katrine.  When she first saw me she looked like she was about to cry over leaving her friends and teacher.  “Schools over”  :(  Then she saw the park.  After five minutes of free play she came to the realisation that summer vacation had begun.  Which to her means….nope not swimming (although that begins Tuesday morning), nope not picnics (although we will likely have some)….come on you can guess…SKATING!  Seven weeks of full or half days of skating with no pesky school or homework distractions.  That was when this face came out.

Next stop, nursery school.  Now I must admit that I am not sure Elspeth understands that there will be no more nursery school.  We have tried to explain it to her but I am still not sure.  She did pick up on Katrine’s excitement over summer vacation and left with a smile on her face as well.

Well, there is a bit of a skating dress fiasco going on right now but that is another post.  The effect of said fiasco is that we needed to drive into the city to return a dress and begin the straightening out process.  This meant stopping for lunch.  The pair of them were thrilled to get a special order meal to share from Thai Express — beef fried rice, no veggies with egg and soysauce no spice.  They almost finished their heaping plate.

After our errand it was off to….guess…skating!  Both girls were on ice today so I got a break and some photos.

Elspeth doing a two foot spin (kinda) with “pretty hands”

The spread eagle is my favourite of the two.