Sydney Visits

Howdy! Brian here--filling in.
Our friend Sydney came up to visit last week, a plan hatched a couple of months ago by her Mom and step-Dad to give us a taste of what life with an 8-year old is like. What's it like? AWESOME! Syd came up and we spent the week having fun. She went to the toy store, hiked a mountain, swam in a lake, explored tide pools, watched Full House (that Joey is HILARIOUS!), built a hotel alternatively for her stuffed cats, our real cats, and her Barbies, played Beauty Salon, and practiced her piano. However, of all of the things we did all week, Syd's favorite was building Fairy Houses.
A friend of ours told Sydney all about Fairy Houses. You can see them on some of the islands off the coast up here, as well as elsewhere. Syd decided to build one in the yard and a rainstorm created a Fairy Lake in the driveway so she built some boats for them too. She left some food for the fairies to eat (blueberries and chocolate) and built a dining room and bed for them to sleep on.
I took pictures of the Fairy House and Lake for Sydney to take home with her. The amazing thing about this is that nothing struck us as out of the ordinary as we took the photos but when I printed them out we could see fairies in the pictures! I've tried to get the pictures to appear on the blog but they won't. So I took pictures of the pictures so you all can see them.
The next day we went to the state park to build some Seaside Fairy Cottages. The same thing happened when I took photos of them: we saw nothing unusual until I printed them. Note to Syd: I'll mail you copies of these pictures.
Anyway, here are some of the pictures.




Here's the Fairy House by the garage. How many can you see?











Here are some the Fairies enjoying a day on the lake.









This is the Fairy Beach House. It's quite large, with a great view of the ocean and its very own swimming hole and indoor mini-pool!










Two of the fairies were apparently enjoying the swimming hole.





I printed this one by mistake--it's not the greatest photo--but it looks like Sydney was being followed!