Up North

Whew. One thing about Georgia, we have to really travel to go find some good water. So it was time to take a vacation. We told Ann, it was time to head somewhere a little cooler for once. She agreed, nodding sagely, and got on the phone. Actually (hee hee) we had, um, already talked to JM about it... Needless to say, he was all for a trip up north. We plotted, er, I mean we talked it over and found a few days Ann could get off and if we packed her bags, then we could go. :-)

Ahhhhh nothing like sunsets on the water! And smores! And stars!! We sat out on the beach and watched the stars shoot out over the sky!!! It was *amazing*! We'd never seen stars like that before, and we were able to talk to our good friend Luna about it too. She's seen it all. It was a wonderful vacation. A chance to swim and rest and relax. We camped out in a tent and it was so nice to be outside. JM made a great fire and we snoozed by it, feeling all warm and fuzzy from our swim and the good food. :-) Mmm. A very good vacation.

Ice, ice baby

We are SO hot! Oh my goodness, Georgia is so so hot. We have never been so hot. It seems the only way to be cool on these 101F days, is to just climb right into the ice box. Aaaahhhhhhhh! :-)

P-Otter blog

Wow! So Ann finished her book, and gave it to us. We finished our version, but this one seemed to have Ann's attention, like all weekend. So we figured, it must have some good things. But it's SO big!!!! We will be reading this book forever!!!


Looks like lots of people have already finsihed though. Hmm. We better get going.

It's here!!

YAY! We are SO excited because it's finally here!! OK, we are all stocked for the weekend with munchies and coffee. Mmmm. Pour us some sweet tea and lead us to the book, baby! This looks kinda different from the book that Ann has, but we think ours is more fun. Certainly shorter. How does she lift that thing? No need for the gym this week!

4th of July!

Woohoo!!! We LOVE fireworks!!
4th of July is so great! Ann had the day off work and JM came to visit! We had so much fun just hanging out and being lazy!! Oooo and eating fish-sicles!!! MMMM YUMMY.

Hip hip hooray!

A BIG round of applause for CRD!!!!


He has been writing and writing and writing.... and is finished with his book!!! He is going to be Dr CRD soon!!! Wow. We are in awe! So hooray! We are looking forward to lots of celebrations, especially by the end of next week then you give your last talk on this big book. :-) We don't understand it, but we know we feel obliged to give you a big CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Turtle crossing??

Wow this is funny huh? Ann and JM went to Tybee Island in Georgia. Pretty!! But you can get there on the road, it was neat! We drove (well, JM drove, but you know... we helped navigate!)

But anyways, on Tybee Island you can go to the beach and there are sea turtles!!! The sea turtles hang out on the beach in the sand, but sometimes they walk off to explore and go over the road. We told JM to be VERY careful as he was driving. We tried to look out for sea turtles for him.
Well we didn't find any sea turtles on that trip. Probably a good thing. we like this sign better anyways!

Minneapolis

Tah-dah! Ann had a work 'thing' in Minneapolis, and we decided to go with her to check it out, meet otters from around the world, and hob-nob. And of course, see the sights! So this is the LARGEST spoon and cherry ever!!! Isn't that cool? It's a fountain. Can you see that??? We played and played and swam for hours! It was so cool! Ann went jogging past it with a friend, and even met up with someone she hadn't seen in years!!! See! Everyone comes to the spoon and cherry. What's not to love?

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???