If all goes well...

we should be moving Labor Day weekend.

We got an offer last night on the house, we countered the offer and are waiting on the reply. If they accept our counter then escrow will close on Aug 31 and we will have the weekend to move.

So keep your calendars clear for that weekend, and your prayers that she will accept our counter offer.

21 Humpback Whales!!!!

I went out on a Whale Watching cruise yesterday from Provincetown (which is where the Pilgrim's first landed coming to America - stayed 6 weeks - decided they wanted to look for a place with better soil and more trees and then sailed on to Plymouth) We were out for 4 hours and it was the most amazing boat trip I've ever been on (even better than the one where we saw thousands of dolphins). We saw a young Humback breaching about 10 times in a row, getting his whole body (20 tons) out of the water, doing spins! We then moved on to a feeding ground where there were 6-8 whales feeding. They first put their tales out and slap the water hard - this stuns the small fish They then dive down and blow air up - you see these bubble rings rising - pushing the fish to the top of the water and then they come up with their mouth open capturing the fish, then close their mouth and push out all the water through the baleen. We were really close (20 feet from the boat?) to a big male and when he opened his mouth a row boat could have easily fit in it. He probably weighed 35 tons (an elephant is 5 tons). At another spot there were more whales feeding and one time there were some whichever direction you looked. We saw about every activity they do and we were so close! We saw 21 in all!

The other Eli

Sarah and Kevin finally got their travel dates to go get Eli. Their G&R date is July 30 so they will be leaving either the 26th or 27th to go over there. The 3 of us will probably go and meet them an the airport when they get back like we did when they brought Katie back.

Caleb's last day of school

I just noticed that we never put the pics of Caleb's performance on his last day of school so I put them on my flickr. I don't know if you have seen them or not.

Click here to see the pictures.