Anne Abroad--The Sequel: Busy Weekend

On Saturday, Skip took Maddie to Kew Gardens where they explored and discovered and enjoyed the unusually great weather, while I headed to downtown London to represent Camp Ferncliff at a counselor recruitment fair organized by Camp U.S.A. We were the dwarf camp. The camp to my left in the hall was in the Poconos and runs two week sessions all summer long with 600 campers each. And for only $5000 a session, you, too, can go there. The camp to my right (qualifying for the it's a small world award) was from Wilmot, New Hampshire, just down the road from the struggling Camp Wilmot where I worked in seminary. You can spend 7 weeks there for just under $10,000. Let's hear it for Camp Ferncliff!

We scored one male and one female counselor that I think (hope!) will be good additions to the Ferncliff team.

Saturday night, our friends from Istanbul arrived. We met the Harwoods in Duesseldorf and they are some of our favorite people. Just like the Robinsons who were here last weekend, the Harwoods have three little girls.

Sunday we headed to the Natural History museum, but we didn't make the marathon day that we did last weekend. Naomi and Lexi are younger than Maddie and just a bit of age difference makes a big difference in stamina! We came back and let the girls watch Night at the Museum which takes place at the Nat. History Museum in New York and then had a feast of fish and chips--which are hard to come by in Istanbul.

This morning they are off in London running errands and they'll come back here for tea before heading to Bath to spend the rest of the week with relatives. Following are pictures and a short video of their time here.