Brandon learning to sail

Brandon took sailing lessons this week. He had to learn to put his boat together by himself...



Roll it over to the water to put it in...




Put the rutter on...

and off he went

The boats were followed by a sail boat and two motor boats.

Just enough wind to be able to get out but not too much to have to worry about tipping over.

Brevet Cavalier

I just received some pictures from the horse exam I passed in June. This is the group I went riding with every Thursday night (my friends are all under 22 years old, made me feel old at times). At the beginning of the exam we had to all line up while the examiner checked if we had tacked up correctly and that everything was clean (I spent the whole afternoon the day before cleaning the horse and the tack).

warming up

The examiner would tell up to do certain exercices which we did one by one or all together in a group to show we could handle the horse in different situations.

Loaping around the arena.

I even had to learn how to do small jumps.

Samba and Billy after the exam. It wasn't a long exam, but boy was it hot in there!

Timea Bacsinszky

Brandon met the number 1 Swiss female tenis champion (not as exciting as Roger Federer, but Brandon thought it was cool).After playing a couple of games at the local tennis club she doing an autograph session.She was quite at ease with kids and suggested for Brandon's picture that they both stick their tongues out. Course Brandon loved this idea.

A couple of pics

Morning de-caf coffee with whipped cream is a lot of fun.

Alicia thought her swim goggles went nicely with her dress.

Alicia playing in the bath. Brandon now has a computer in his room.

Alicia thinks it is a lot of fun too.