On Tuesday night we just relaxed which was nice. On Wednesday, we decided to take the kids to the fair. It was over 100 degrees outside. We rented Grandma a wheelchair and rode a lot of rides. Paige, Grandma & I watched story time and hung out in the kids area while the bigger kids went to ride the better rides. Then we all watched a little circus act and decided what to have for lunch. We then looked at the 4h animals and headed out. It was so hot I almost passed out walking back to Justin's car. He had to take me to my car which I parked for free a lot farther away. I was glad I only had to walk back to his car.
When we came home we attempted at hiding out my our air conditioned house but the boys ended up outside a lot. I made watermelon smoothies and we just tried to stay cool. We played some ball out front with Grandma which was a lot of fun. We ended up borrowing a motorized scooter for Grandma from our neighbor which made things easier. That night, I stayed home and baked a cake for Katie's birthday which was Thursday. Everyone else went to boomers where they rode to Go Karts & played video games. Paige is big enough to ride with her dad now and I hear she thought she was driving for a while. Grandma had a great time watching them try to take each other out.
Thursday we just hung around the house most of the day. Grandma taught Justin how to make his favorite Portuguese dish (Sopa?) and I took Katie to get her hair dyed. I picked up our favorite Chinese food (Ha's in San Ramon) for lunch. For dinner, we had Sopa and we all sang Happy Birthday to Katie. My friend picked me up around 7pm to head to LA.
On Friday, Justin dropped Paige off at school and my mom picked her up later. He took the rest of them to Santa Cruz. They went to see Grandpa's grave and dropped Grandma off at her house. They just hung out at Grandma's house and then headed back here.
On Saturday Justin took all of the kids to San Francisco. They tried to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge, but it was too windy. He took them over to Lombard street and went down it. They hung out in China town for a little while and had some Clam Chowder and did some souvenir shopping. When they were getting ready to leave, they looked out over the side of a parking structure and watched as some guy dressed like a bush was jumping out scaring people. They all laughed and watched that for a little while. He took them to Haight/Ashbury. Then they found an in and out burger for dinner near the airport. After dinner they still had some time to spare so they had some ice cream. They dropped Katie off at the airport to head back to Kansas and headed back home.
We had a great time overall. Not as exciting as traveling across the country. But fun nevertheless. It is always great to spend time with Family and getting to know Justin's cousin Katie was wonderful. The pictures below are lacking the Fair (We forgot the camera and my cell phone) and Santa Cruz/San Fran. I haven't loaded pics from Justin's camera yet. I will try to add them late.
Making Sopa
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