Haircuts, Birds and Belly Dancing

The major trauma for the week was A taking the kitchen sheers to Ms. M's hair. I was trying to reorganize the freezer and was in the garage. By the time I came back in A had cut a good part of the top of M's hair off (at least part of the left side). I was soooo sad. I remember that I and my two sisters also cut our hair at one time or another, but I was hoping to avoid that. Sidnee, who cuts my hair and my girls hair, was sweet enough to let me bring M over ASAP, but there wasn't much we could do. Alas, no pony tails or curls for a bit.

Second, on Saturday we went to Birdfest up in Ridgefield, WA. There is the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge up there, and Saturday and Sunday was the big Birdfest. We've never actually been there before, but it was kind of fun. In college I had to take a nature appreciation class for my major and one of the assignments was to find and identify 50 birds. I spend many a Saturday with my girlfriend and my binoculars. However, ever since then I've paid much more attention to birds. This weekend everything was free and they even provided a little bus we could take that took us through the refuge. There was also two "tour guides" on the bus explaining about the refuge and pointing out birds and wildlife. These are Cackling Geese and are smaller than Canadian Geese. I guess it's too early in the season for the Canadian Geese. The girls played bird bingo and had fun crossing out the birds we found and even got a prize. S and M were a little bored(okay, really bored), but T, A and myself had a great time.

Here we are on the bus, looking for birds and wildlife--We saw a family of raccoons that were adorable, but mostly we saw lots and lots of birds. Ask S what the difference is between Great Blue Herons and Sandhill Cranes. He's now a bird pro. There were many other activities around town, but S (and the girls) were done after the refuge.

Lastly, Saturday night was a date night. S took me to a restaurant we went to when we were dating. It is a Moroccan Restaurant called Marrakesh. You sit on little cushions/tuffets and eat the dinner with your hands. It's pretty fun. You get a five course dinner--soup, salad, appetizer/pastry thing, main dish, and dessert. The dessert is fruit salad--chocolate would have been better, but we had a great time. They also have a belly dancer that goes around providing entertainment. Somehow S and I got pulled up to belly dance. I actually took a belly dancing class in college, but wasn't very good. We had fun and would recommend the restaurant to anyone.