Every day at about 10:00 a.m. Ridge gets restless. He has had enough of his cars, balls, and books. He needs to run. So we go on a walk. We call it Ridge's walk. Usually it is just Ridge, Katelyn, and me. Kyleigh stays at home and does schoolwork. I think she likes the alone time. Our walk starts in the yard where we play with the hila hila. This cool little weed closes up when you touch it. We all love the hila hila. We stop to say hello to Sandy and Annie, the dogs that live next door. Chickens like the next house so we are always on the lookout for chickens in that yard. They also have a row of flower bushes. We always have time to stop and smell the flowers. Then Ridge and Katelyn race up the street. We go around the corner and head down the hill. Ridge collects rocks on his way down the hill. At the bottom of the hill we can usually find a puddle of water. He throws his rocks into the puddle and usually splashes through it for a minute. If there is no puddle he throws his rocks into the storm drain. As we head up the hill there is a house that has rocks on the front of the lawn. The put them there so noone will park on their lawn, which is an area that is widely considered a parking lot here. They are also perfect for jumping. Ridge climbs up all of them and jumps off. One of the rocks is particularly wide and flat. That is the stage rock. Ridge stops on that one to dance while he sings either a song about Santa or red solo cup. On the way up the street he stops to collect more fun things like dirt. At this point Katelyn gets bored and runs home. I can usually coax Ridge up the rest of the way with the promise of checking the mail. We currently have two rocks in our mailbox that he left there this week. We have found other great things to do on our walks like talk back to the birds and name the noises we can hear. One day we saw a piece of fruit sitting on the curb with bugs eating out the inside. We pointed and said ewww. Ridge stops at that spot every day, points and says ewww even though there hasn't been anything there in months. This week we spotted a spiderweb on someones roof with a string attached all the way down and on another roof. That was kind of cool. It might be "Ridge's Walk" but we all like to get out.
We have wanted to have another murder mystery party since the last one, but we wanted to wait for the Giles and they finally came! It was a murder luau. I got the part of the Nadia, the swimsuit model shooting in Hawaii. My first thought on that is, really??? I live in Hawaii, everyone has seen me in a swimming suit. Well, I couldn't be a swimsuit model without the right equipment, hence the large balloons under my shirt. I didn't even know how to fold my arms with those things. Under or over, that is the question. Rusty was Chief Wikiwiki, a native Hawaiian chief who had been accused of stealing artifacts from the museum. You can't see it in the picture but he is wearing a towel around his waist. Holly was Holly, the wife of an older, jealous husband. They were living on a houseboat off the shore. As it turned out, her husband had been dead for four months. Mike was a scuba diving instructor who had recently saved the eventual victim from drowning after he had been pushed off of Holly's house boat. Dawn was Leilani, a hula dancer who had "accidentally" pushed her fiance off a cliff the year prior. Jeff was the victims right hand man, a die hard surfer who was ready to branch away from his boss and start a business of his own. John was a tourist. A tourist who had just broken out of prison and was making a quick stop in Hawaii before moving on to Australia to avoid the law. Wendi was a golf pro. She happened upon the murder just after it happened while coming off the golf course. 
