Anyone out there not bored of Alentejo pictures? Pec continues to compete with Proscuitto in the loyalty department. He is the sweetest, sweetest dog.
The four boys had fun building a dam on our way down to the river to play Pooh Sticks.
They threw their sticks and then quickly got on their tummies to see whose stick arrived first on the other side.
Sebby heard the kids playing on the other side of this gate, and knocked the softest most gentle knock and said "primos? Freddy? Are you there?"
Freddy couldn't resist joining his siblings in the water and that quickly turned into a water fight. Another cousin joined and it became a mud fight.
Sebby has taken to using the Portuguese oh-no-you-don't finger wag with some frequency. I caught him mid wag as he told off one of the other kids. We've since trimmed his hair.
I'm having so much fun with my new camera and getting in lots of practice with Miss Zita.
On Sunday we took a picnic to a property that we last visited in 2008. It's really and truly in the middle of nothing, and so far off any main road that it would be impossible to get to without 4 wheel drive.
There are enourmous boulders protruding out of the grassy landscape. It's hard to see the scale, but the the below rocks are well over 20 feet high. The boys spent hours climbing in the rocks and making forts. Sebby is in a Kung-Fu Panda phase and was doing "kung-Fu" as he jumped from rock to rock.
Lots of turtles live in the pond and would poke their heads up much to Sebby's delight.
Seb didn't have much success in the rock skipping competition, but he did love making big splashes with heavier rocks.
We arrived home and reunited with Moojie and Prosciutto who short circuited he was so happy to see us. Just as Pai and I got everything unloaded, kids feds, and everything in the house closed up, Mooj called us to the third floor to see the moon. I have never see the moon so low or such a burnt orange color.
It doesn't look like it in this picture, but it also looked huge. I'll put Freddy on finding out the scientific explanation.
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