Mayan Ranch!

Brianna & Olivia

Olivia & Lily

We went to the Mayan Ranch with our adoption agency this past weekend and had a great time! There were about 7 or 8 families from our adoption agency plus several members of the family that started the agency. The families that attended had Chinese; Vietnamese; Guatemalen and Russian children and the oldest was around 10 years old and the youngest 10 months. Olivia found a friend (Lily) the day we got there and they had a lot of fun. Lily is 3 years old and is from China and she has a sister, Jasmine, that is 5 years old and is also from China. The girls ran around and played until they pooped out. Brianna and her family got to the ranch late that night so we didn't see them until breakfast the next morning. The girls got to ride two ponies; go on hayrides and just have a great time.

I went horse riding while Olivia and Peter took a nap on Saturday. Peter and I also go to sit on a steer named "Oreo". To get to our breakfast and dinners we all piled on a flatbed with hay on it and rode to eat. There were people visiting the ranch from many different countries. I couldn't believe that people would travel such a long way to go to a dude ranch in Bandera TX. There were families from Norway; Denmark; England and other countries but I never got a chance to ask where they were from. It was defininitly a melting pot of people especially when you add all of our kids. I would go back but as long as Olivia had someone to play with.

Brooke