Brooklyn - How Sweet It Is!

YAY!!! We made it to NYC!!! to J-bird's new place in Brooklyn. And here we are with everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was so great to see the gang and be able to hear all the good news. And of course, we had a great day to roam around the city.
We walked over the Brooklyn Bridge and we could see *everything*! It was so cool. Waaaay back in the distance over the water there was the Statue of Liberty!!


We celebrated with our cousins! And got to tour the city. We ate good food, got good coffee and uh, other fun drinks! :-)
We thought about opportunities to stay in New York


Cause we were having so much fun celebrating with our cousins!!!!



It was Ann's birthday and it was so good to be in NYC with J-bird and all the gang. Ah Brooklyn - how sweet it is!!!

California dreaming

We finally got there!! A bit of a shorter trip, but hey. We made it. Phew! JM went out for sushi without us on Friday though. Very sad. What was really sad though, is that we did miss Paul!!! :-( Very sad. But we don't feel too bad, cause he got to go off and explore beautiful places like this!

Wow!! We would love to be in a waterfall like that!! Maybe next time, we can go with him???

We love California and just the time to relax and hang out. :-) Look at the hummingbirds that live there! We try to play with them but they are too fast for us! They must be hungry too, they drink and drink and then ZIP off!

Uh-oh

We missed our plane!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have never ever ever ever missed a plane! We can't believe it didn't wait for us! Didn't it *know* we were coming? And we were running so fast! Ok, that's not true, we were in Ann's bag, but wow, you should have seen her run!!!!!!!! That would have been some time in the 5K...
But anyways, we got stuck at the airport and didn't get to fly to California!! It was very very sad. But luckily we found a nice hotel for the night and ate some clams and rested up. Trying again in the morning!

Yikes! We almost forgot!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Ann's DADDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We'll see you tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P is for Pip and Pop!!!

We love to read! We're getting good. J-Bird bought us a book, and guess what?!






That's right people, P is for Pip, Pop, purple, popcorn and popsicle! THE BEST LETTER!

We've been up eating cookies and packing for our trip tomorrow. :-) YAY!!!!!!!!! Mmm cookies are yummy. Maybe C is a pretty good letter too. There was a big lightning storm tonight, so we kept busy with the cookies to not get scared. It worked well. OK time to go sleep so that we are all ready for tomorrow!!!! Next stop, San Diego!!!

Pack those suitcases!

Cause the otters are off again!!!

This morning when we woke up, we were yawning and stretching a bit, waking up slowly. Ann padded in with a smile. And that's when she told us the GRRREAT news!!

That we are going places again!!! This Friday we are going to get on a plane and go to California!!! WOO HOO. We're flying into San Diego! We like San Diego, oh but we're not staying there this time. Nope, we're getting picked up by our good friend JM who just so happens to be there too! Then we're going to sleep in the car cause it's like an hour to Ann's parents' house. But that's the house with the great pool!! YAY. We might wake up for a midnight dip.
Paul is coming up the next day for a bit, and we'll fly home to Georgia again on Sunday. But... it gets better!!

After that, we are going to go to... NEW YORK CITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAH! We're going to see J-bird and Max and Spud and Party and and and.... EVERYONE!!
This is SO exciting!!!!! We haven't been to visit in sooooo long. We're going to leave very very early and then celebrate Ann's birthday in the BIG APPLE. Party on!! We are So excited!! We're just bouncing around the apartment. Speaking of which, we know we're supposed to have more pictures of life here in Georgia.

So this is the apartment! A taste of it! That's taken with us standing on the balcony. Isn't it cool, we have a balcony?? We also have a pool!!! YAY. We were excited about having a bathtub of all our own, but this is even better. Ah, the life of an otter!

Introducing the Hot Tamale

Or Tammy, as we like to call her.
So Ann needed a new car. What can we say, it had been a long time. Not that there is anything wrong with Audrey! But she was like, on loan or something. We can't even remember how long it has been. But she has to go back. So Ann, started to look for cars. We had a few ideas!!! We liked Paul's car, but Ann wasn't sure she could fit everything in it. She showed us this... and it really looks like he could put the car in that box! So we looked at other ideas...

But Ann didn't listen to us! She called for help. That's when JM arrived. He *knows* about cars. Which is pretty good, cause we just wanted one in purple. Ann wasn't so sure. But luckily, it was JM to the rescue!! Ann and JM came back with TAMMY!!!!!
We got right on making sure that even though she wasn't purple, that we approved.



Things were looking good. :-) We thought we'd take her out for a little 'spin', but uh, well... Ann said no. Hmph. That's ok. We're working on a plan...


Road trip, anyone???

We've MOVED

Hey, we just realised this announcement is really really late! But we've moved! Yup!

We now live in Georgia, with Ann. That'd be DOWN SOUTH.


See where it says 'Athens'? That's round about where we are. :-) So, we've left Ann Arbor and Michigan for the time being! Goodbye snow! Goodbye ice!
And we've moved down yonder to sun it up with the Southerners!
When we first got here, we didn't understand anybody!!! Everyone here talks so slow and they have this drawl. But we're getting into the swing of things now.:-) Y'all fixin' to come visit??? We're learning how to make sweet tea! We like it SWEET!!

Ann is not convinced yet. She thought USA tea time was a great idea, until she realised it's not like the tea we used to have in college. Oh well! We'll soon have her drinking it sweet and y'all-ing with the rest of us!
(she seems to think that means it will be time to go back home... home like England. Hmm. Maybe the tea thing is serious)

Disney Otters!!

Hey! We went home! Kinda. We went to hang out and play at Disney World with Ann and her friends! We even got to see some of our friends!!!! Aren't we cute?! We are so lucky to have good friends. Friends who stay with us, even when we're weird. Even when we get a little clam obsessed... Friends who make us smile and sing with us. :-) Friends who know when to give hugs without asking. Where would we be without them?! What a great weekend!!!!

I found a clam that was THIS big!!!

Pop and I are always out looking for clams!! You should have seen the one that got away!!! Pip can tell you, it was like, THIS BIG!!!!

Happy St Patti's!

I don't know, we're not interested in swimming in this river! Today, we're just kicking back with some friends and family. And definitely staying out of this river. We'd prefer to just look for 4-leaf clovers togeher in the sunshine. Ah spring!

Driving Test Success!

Hey everyone!! We have another major shout out here to our dear friend V! Today she is experiencing driving test SUCCESS!!! Having never driven ourselves, we are in AWE of V and her new driving powers. We knew you'd do it!! So, when can we come for a ride???

Happy Birthday!

Hey everyone! It's a birthday! Yay birthday! It's J-bird's birthday!!! WOO HOO. We are so excited for her! Time to celebrate! Dance! Sing! Par-tee!

We will be doing all of that here for you J-bird. We love you lots and miss you! Thank you for bringing us to Ann and we'll see you soon! Love Pip and Pop

Weekend in San Diego

Yay! We thought we weren't going to go anywhere for awhile but we got to come with Ann on a short trip to California! yay! It's so pretty here. We like the flowers. And it's warm!

But what was really cool was Paul's car! He has a Mini! It's almost our size!!! We think we would like a car too. it's zippy! And fun. So, maybe we want a car! Then we could drive together to New York to see Max and Spud! Ann said that was 'otterly unlikely' though. Oh. I guess that's cause the Mini is a stick shift. We'd need help. Hmm.

Good Friends

It's the middle of Ann's last semester at school, so we aren't traveling so much these days. So, we thought we'd take the chance to say HI to two of our friends! Max and Spud, the monkeys! These cool guys live in New York City! WOW. New York City. Centre of the universe! So we are told. They send us the occasional T-mail (tail mail) and we want to say HI to all of them in NYC! We know they aren't traveling much either because lots of people are in school. We used to go to school, we would go to the library in Ann's bag and keep her company. And run around the books. :-) Hee hee.

Sperry glacier

Sperry Glacier is a really really really long way away! We had to wake up when it was still dark to get ready for this hike, our last hike. Scott said something about an 'easy day hike', so we were pretty happy, even though Ann looked concerned.

Well.

We went up. And up. And up. Through woods. Through fields. Through narrow trails. Through rocks. Through ice. And then when we thought we were there, we weren't! It was FURTHER!

But we made it, and here we are at the top. Phew! So much for an easy day hike!

We made up time on the end by sliding down the glacier which was fun! But then we still had a long walk down and we started to get nervous as it got dark. What about the bears? Bears! We were singing and singing to try to scare off the bears. We thought we could make friends with them, but then we got worried that these bears might not be interested. Luckily, we made it down by the hair on our tails! Oh yummy dinner time and sleep!!!! SLEEP! What a day! What a hike! Now we know what to make of Scott's 'easy day hikes' after all.

More Glacier National Park tales

Here we are at Logan Pass on the Continental Divide! We didn't know what that meant. We didn't see any dividing. Actually, we're too little to divide. But Ann told us it was the place where all of the river waters decide what direction they are going to go. I guess that is pretty important to us so we know where we are swimming!

You wouldn't believe it, but we have seen snow in the summer! We were confused because it was August! But look what happened in Glacier! There was falling snow and we got c-c-c-cold! We weren't really prepared for that in the summer. We had to sit in the car and nibble on our lunch before our tails got numb. It was good to be in Ann's backpack that day, out of the wind.

Glacier National Park

Woohoo - we have been to Glacier National Park! It's in Montana. We went with Scott and Ann for a week! We were excited. It's been awhile since we got to do some hiking. So we made sure we were prepared. We got a map of the park. We cleaned out Ann's backpack and found good ways to be strapped in.





Actually we got to go to 3 states! We landed in Washington and stayed a night there. And then we got to go to Idaho, which Ann says is a place with lots of potatoes. But we didn't see any potatoes. We weren't there very long though.
What we did see when we go to Montana though, were huckleberries! They were everywhere. In food, ice cream, soap, everywhere! Mmm. We got excited because hey! Huckleberries look like us! We are huckleberry otters!

We got to Glacier National Park in Montana pretty late. We were sleepy! But the next day Scott told us about something that made us too scared to sleep! Bears! There are grizzly bears in the park! Yikes! Our friend Bear, is a nice bear. We didn't think these ones sounded as nice as him.


The first day, we were singing a lot so that we wouldn't see any bears. Ann and Scott walked a long long way up up up! And then we made it! We got to the glacier! We think we might be the first otters on Grinnell Glacier!

YAWN

Phew... we have had ONE GREAT SUMMER.

We have stories to tell, oh yes we do, from our last trip of the summer with Scott and Ann. Great stories. But that was a BIG trip. And we're still kinda tired. So, we promise we'll write about that trip real real soon. In the meantime, Pop has to work on his beauty sleep.

But when we're all rested, we'll show you photos from our trip... do you know where we went?!

Visiting family in Cali

We've been away from the blog because we went home to visit family! Here's some of our cousins from California! Aw!
We had a great time in California with the fam. It's a big party every time we get together. They showed us the sights and the sounds of the West Coast - woo hoo! We sunned ourselves on the beach, got ice cream and Pop worked on his tan. He's a nice deep shade of purple now.
You gotta love family. They feed you and look after you and let you watch lots of daytime TV. They take you to the beach and make sure you don't get burned in the sun. They help you make friends with seals! Speaking of which, we're worried about the seals at Seal Beach in San Diego!
http://www.calcoast.org/news/beach0040627.html
http://www.amwest-travel.com/awt_sdseal.html
The people don't want the seals to come sleep on the beach anymore, and the seals like this one special beach. People used to be able to go see the seals there and watch them play, but now it looks like they won't be able to! :-( Now they are chasing the seals off the beach.
What would happen if they wouldn't let us otters have a place to rest? How would we make friends with the seals? Or blog, for that matter? It makes us sad. I mean, everyone needs a place to swim and a place to sleep. We have our own otter pond! We are lucky otters.