Summer weekend

It's summer.  It's Memphis.  It's hot.  And humid.  No sense hiding.  The likelihood of having a day where the high is anywhere less than in the 90s is extremely slim until October.

We found a blueberry farm!  Yay!  You may remember from years past that we really enjoyed blueberry picking when we were in Indiana.  See here, here,  and here as evidence.  So it was very exciting to find a blueberry farm here.  And it really wasn't that far away.  And as an added bonus - it's an organic farm!

No, that's not regular Silje, that's Super Silje helping us pick blueberries.  (notice the plastic snake in the bush above heir heads?  We hadn't even noticed it yet when I took this pic.  It gave Kris a startle not too long after this.  We had just been talking about copperheads and cottonmouths.)

I'm pretty sure she ate as many as she picked.  She loved them.  She kept saying "I just eat a couple" and then would take a handful.

This was the first year that Stian was actually very helpful picking blueberries.  It didn't take us long at all to pick a gallon of blueberries.  Which is good, because we head sweat pouring off of us.

After blueberry picking we went to Jerry's Sno Cones, which is a Memphis institution.  This was the kids' and Kris's first experience at Jerry's (I was there several years ago when I visited Carla in Memphis long before we moved here). Stian chose a cotton candy snow cone (of course), Kris a pineapple one, and Silje and I split a pina colada one.  None of us got it "supreme" - which means it has soft serve on top.  No pics as we ate our snow cones in the cool air conditioning of the car.  We were hot!

Today we went to the zoo.  Can you believe our membership at the zoo is about to expire?  That means we've lived here for a year as of July 1st!  We mostly just wanted to take advantage of their water features!