"Onwards, Happiness Ninja!!"

Today we went on an adventure with professional rebel and Happiness Ninja Marie-Claire, with two goals: to get lost and to find ice-cream.

 I am pleased to inform you that we accomplished both! 

We summited craggy rocks and embraced the wind - swimming through sky, we walked through woods, climbed trees, tracked down ice-cream, and discovered the crème de la crème of hazelnut Vegan chocolate! Later, we happened upon The Old Poets Corner and had the pleasure of polishing off the best chips in England. 

"A Day in the Country" 

Today we went to a friend’s farm and met the lovely lambs and their mothers, petted the piglets, rode on the big red tractor and tried to hold on as we flew through the wind, and took photos of the prepossessing English countryside. It was beautiful. 

" These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs. "

- Anton Chekhov, "A Day in the Country"

Yesterday Ty and Oli set free the Painted Lady Butterflies they had cared for until they hatched, and learnt that they have a 2-week life span. During this time, their main goal is to reproduce and lay eggs so that the cycle can begin again.