Mount Greylock

It is the end of semester at MIT which means that Justin has a little more time to spend with us again. It also marks the start of this year's road trips. Our first destination is Mount Greylock. We drove for about 2 and half hours to get there from Cambridge, MA. We left after lunch and Sonya and Clara took their afternoon nap in the car.

The road up to the summit has been closed for repairs for the past 2 - 3 years and it just reopened last weekend.

Sonya and Clara were pretty enthusiastic to climb up the tower. (But while reading what I have posted in the blog, Sonya said that I forgot to say that she was scared to climb up the tower.)

There was this lone cloud in the sky. It looked pretty funny above Sonya's head in the photo above, kind of like those rain cloud that kept following you in cartoons.

Our dare devil Clara insisted to climb up and sit on that structure. After Clara did it, Sonya of course had to have a go at it too.

By the time we got home, it was already 11pm and the girls were already fast asleep :)

Sizzle Sizzle Pop!

I brought my camera along to Sonya and Clara's gymnastic class again today to take some photos of Clara and Manuela.

It just would not be fair not to have any photo of Sonya and Natalia too :)

Here is Clara attempting a somersault.

And now a hand-stand.



These rings must be her favorite!


And here is Manuela doing the balance beam :)


Clara climbing and swinging on the ropes.

Manuela was about to do a somersault but I think I scared her away with the camera :(

From then onwards, she got very weary whenever I got too close with my camera.

Clara on the balance beam. She is getting quite comfortable on her own on the beam. Before, she wouldn't walk on it without holding my hand.

Manuela with her suspicious eyes on me again :)




Hop hop hop...

Another of Clara's favorites is the Tumble Track. She is like a wild woman whenever she steps foot on it! Boing boing boing... Open Close Sit Drop... Open Close Knee Drop...

This girl just loves to hang...

And quite fearless too. She leaps from one bar to the other and just hangs. My heart skips a beat every time she does that!

Grand Finale: Sizzle... Sizzle... POP!

Clara wouldn't get down before jumping around for a few times on her own on the huge trampoline.

Here's Manuela having a go at jumping too :)

No class is complete without stamps, coloring printouts, high-5 and big hugs :)