a late-summer's eve

The weather has thrown me for a loop. It was 27 degrees today - high 70s in Fahrenheit - and of course I failed to pack shorts and summer dresses when I was packing for an autumn in London. Of course it poured two days ago, but the rain doesn't make it chilly out, just muggy.
So to take advantage of the great weather (that probably won't last long) the girls and I decided to take our assigned reading to the park and read in the grass. I got about 10 pages read. Between the adorable bubble-chasing babies, the Disney music on Lauryn's laptop (not normal Disney music - she literally has the soundtrack they play on the rides at Disneyworld.... the Haunted Mansion soundtrack is some creepy stuff....) and the cute puppies it was more of a break from classes and assignments.

I'm finding it hard to be motivated to do my assignments. Who would have guessed living in a new, bustling, beautiful, history-packed, world city would be a distraction?

Christina and Kelly

Mary and Christina

Lauryn (with her musical laptop) and Elena (with her
characteristic newspaper)

These kids caught bubbles, danced, held hands,
hugged, toppled into the grass and were all
around adorable. When I got uncomfortable taking
so many pictures of them, Lauryn took over.

The bubble-catchers liked to give each other hugs (not surprisingly
 the little girl liked to follow the little boy around and give him BIG hugs --
so much so they fell down a couple of times)

After a while the kids took over the bubble maker.

The sun set, it got chilly, and we went home.