Starting school and skipping school

School started and life is already busy.  Nina has been doing a lot with band - pep, jazz, and regular.  Pip is still doing gymnastics.  Both girls have been doing some Chinese as well; Nina is a TA at the Saturday school for the 1st graders in addition to her AP exam prep class.  

More excitingly, we all skipped school/work to go to Mexico!  We made our way to Mexico City for a Stray Kids concert and things started out crazy when the girls spotted the lead member of the group when we arrived at the airport.  We navigated the metro to our hotel and enjoyed being near many of the cool markets and sites.  We wandered around on Friday and went to the museum of anthropology, a Michelin star taco place, and lots of fun neighborhoods.  Saturday was the big day of the show and it didn't disappoint!  

We had a spectacular time and we were sad to leave so quickly.  We would have liked to have gotten to see the pyramids and a few other areas in the city.  On a long, drawn-out layover, we managed to see Ben's good friend from China when he swung by the airport for a quick minute.  We arrived back in MSP around 3am and our house around 4:15am.  Eeek.  But still totally worth it.

Transitions

Another summer comes to a close and now the Naks have closed on a house.  It's been a fun summer, but it has also been full of packing and getting ready for the move. We're finally making WB our home base and it's already paying off as the girls have gotten to hang out with friends and have a much shorter drive to activities.  The girls have been very helpful, packed a lot, Nina made Goodwill runs, and they even had a cute little "sale" for the neighbor kids.

We had another fun and wild time with the Zeilinger crew in Nebraska.  It's amazing how fast everyone is growing, and we seem to always leave with some new quotes that make us laugh: "smells like red buckets in here."

We've also gotten to see a bunch of the Naks & Fitzs.  It's never quiet when we all get together.  Otherwise, we just tried to make the most of summer with trips to Valleyfair (thank you, Annie!), MOA, Saints games, Obon Festival, and lots of ice cream.