Quick summer sum up

Yes, it's been a loooooong time since I've posted on the blogs! The summer is going along very nicely and I can't believe it's only three weeks or so until school starts again. Ellie went to day camp throughout July, and tomorrow she starts gymnastics camp for a week, in addition to swimming and gymnastics classes. Camps, classes and numerous birthday parties (I swear more people are born in the summer than winter) have kept us busy.

We had a great time camping with friends at a campground that has it all--a swimming pool, petting zoo, hayride, outdoor movie screen, face painting, two playgrounds, and breakfast in the morning. They even have a coffee cart! It was my kind of camping. It would have been perfect if it hadn't been for the rogue cat roaming the campground meowing incessantly at bedtime and the incredibly loud bird that started squawking at 7am. It would have been even more perfect if we had brought our Aerobed.

Of course there have been lots of funny Ellie stories along the way and every time they happen I make a mental note to write them in the blog. And then I forget them. So I can't think of any funny stories to post.

Greg and I finally got a block of time to see that insanely long movie, The Dark Knight. I really liked it, and I found it as disturbing and awesome as it was supposed to be. Heath Ledger was amazing, of course. I also loved Aaron Eckhart as Two Face. I thought he was riveting. I actually thought the performances of everyone in the film were extremely good, especially given that it's a super hero movie and the characters are painted with pretty broad strokes. About 3/4 of the way through the movie, I realized that there was a little kid sitting behind me and I spent the rest of the movie being annoyed by the fact that a kid was watching such a dark and disturbing film. Especially during that scene at the end with Two Face. I was really bothered that a kid was watching that. When the movie ended, I looked behind me and the kid looked about eight, which was older than I thought he was from his voice. But still way too young for the movie. He looked kind of shell-shocked.

We're heading out to Music in the Park, which the city council hosts throughout the summer and which is one of my favorite things in the world to do.