Fells Point Festival - October 2010

Ripley went to the Fells Point Festival three times this past weekend. Twice on Saturday with Chad and PaPa (and Aunt Nona one of these times); once on Sunday with me, Chad and PaPa. Apparently on one of the two first visits, she became enamored with two of the rides in the ride section - the Crazy Bus and the BumbleBees. So on Sunday, we made it happen. She was definitely one of the smaller kids on the rides, but she was fearless.

MiMi and PaPa's 40th Wedding Anniversary - August 2010

One of other summer adventures was meeting up with the Kramer family in Pennsylvania at a condo on the grounds of the Nemacolin resort. There was so much to do - multiple swimming pools (one with a water slide), a croquet court, and wild animals! Ripley's most vivid memory of her time (which she still talks about) was finding a teeny snake (not much larger than a large earthworm) in the pool. She was the one who spotted it - and said "What is that?".

We had lovely anniversary dinner at The Summit Inn, which apparently has an amazing view of the sunset, but the night we were there it was cloudy! It was nice to get a family picture.

One of the last events was Aunt Carolyn, Uncle Culann, and Chad doing the Fat Bird zip line. I have a feeling our adventure girl is going to end up on a zip line one of these days.