Va-Va-Voom "V"

Here on Vancouver Island, "V" week was fairly quiet. We travelled to Vancouver, WA, and Vancouver, BC, drove past VIU (the local university), wondered about vets, went places in our van, listened to "V" composers such as Verdi, baked with vanilla and vinegar, ate vegetables, wore vests, and Madison made a volcano in science class.

Shopped here for books for Mads' collections:

Re-framed a thrift store find of a Van Gogh picture:

Read lots of volcano books, and even drove by a real (dormant) volcano!

Tried unsuccessfully to buy a venus flytrap plant so had to settle for reading about them:

Read more "V" books:

Coloured "V" pictures:

Ate vermicelli pasta:

Took a ferry from Victoria (photo courtesy of Dad):

The kids had a victory over a big log at Nana's beach:

Madison embarked on a volunteer job, doing a bottle drive to raise funds for feeding children in Uganda. $100 buys 40 children oatmeal for a whole year - we are just a few dollars short of our first $100 donation to this charity - how awesome is that? Pic is our van full of bottles to return!

Then one morning Mads decided we should "help the earth" by picking up garbage, so off we went, bags in hand, volunteering to clean up the neighbourhood:

Jacob and Madison made vine "V" paper plate crafts:

While driving one day, we saw this vulture on a truck:

And we created a vulture out of paper plates:

We didn't get to make a bubbling volcano science experiment at home or eat Vietnamese food, but "V" week was still very very great!