Surfing the Inner N8

August 17:

* On this day we discovered that our daily wakeup call throughout the duration of our vacation was going to be a certain four-year-old girl standing next to our bed yelling, “Wake up, sleepyheads!”

* While eating at Rainforest Café in Niagara Falls, I noticed that Laura Marie’s attention was fixed on something nearby.  So I asked what she was doing.  She said very matter-of-factly, and none too quietly, “I’m staring at the lady.” Um, oh—I guess I did ask.

* We headed south a little to a park that had a really beautiful garden.  The whole time we were there, she pretended she was Alice and was in Wonderland.  Although I’m not sure she was really pretending.  She got pretty upset if we had a momentary mental lapse and called her anything other than “Alice.”