BEST DAY EVER

jumping in the water

Finding a teddy bear tea cup set

While cleaning up GaGa's attic, the girls found a tea cup set!

Beach Day

A little bit of a break from packing up GaGa's house, at the nearby beach.

Click on the above to see a slideshow, and make sure to dust off the sand so it doesn't get on your keyboard!

The girls swimsuits are the whole body style, and are supposed to protect them from sunburn.

More swimming

First swimming lesson

A big file, but who knew "monkeys" could try to swim?!

County Fair Pix

The kids went to the county fair today, and here are some pictures they took

A different kind of carousel at the county fair....

Learning about bees

We've been packing up the house as well as dealing with J's dad's move too all weekend but for a few hours this morning the girls got up early and made pancakes & strawberries for their mom, served with their aunt's homemade strawberry syrup. It was very messy, so afterwards they needed a cold shower to both clean up and cool off as it was 100+ F today.

Then we went to the grocery store and then to the library which had a class on beekeeping, along with a couple of real live hives. The girls learned all about the industrious bees, and of course, sampled some honey.  If you click on the picture you can what it looked like; the bees are buzzing under the blue covered hives.

They've spent a lot of time at their Nonny's in the last week while we've been packing and have
had so much fun, that being at home, with my rules is sometimes a shock for them....

Piggy piggy

Ruishi at 9 months weighs as much as Nikolai at 19 years.

Here she is lying down while chomping away. 

She also tries to eat any kind of human food she can find....

Mitsommer Smorgasbord

Chomping on Mitsommer Smorgasbord - pickled herring, gravlax, shrimp salad, lingonberries & more!

Princess cakes for dessert too.

Yum Yum and very messy dresses afterwards....

Tennis lesson

Again you might have to change some of your settings to get these to work

Driving the train

These might work, but you may have to twiddle with your setting for playing videos.

Getting ready for pizza dinner outside

Girls swimming

Two mermaids love sloshing around the pool on a hot Sacramento day

 

Thanks M. for sending us this short clip!

 

 

Seaworld

While we were in San Diego, we also visited SeaWorld, which is sort of like an aquarium/amusement park.  It's private equity owners have recently IPO'd it, and they have really pushed pricing sky high.  It's a fun place, but I don't see it as being a place one would need to visit much more than once a generation or so, especially at the tariff charged.  Click on the above to see a slide show.

We still had a good time, and the live animal shows are definitely unique.  Click on the above to see.  It was a rainy overcast day, which is good for pictures, but bad for staying dry and having fun in a possibly wet place.

The next day we went to the park which had swings, which I. loves but her sister doesn't.

Playing at SeaWorld

San Diego Zoo

After my conference last week, we took a few days off to visit friends in San Diego, and spend a day at the zoo.  It was a great visit, and the girls loved seeing the vast spectrum of animals the zoo has.  Unfortunately, there was construction occurring at the panda complex so we were not able to see their signature exhibit, but it was still a full day, and we saw only half of the complex.

These pictures are the best out of the hundred plus I took, and have been scrubbed up a little.  Click on the icon above to see them.

Its easy to get on the tiger...but hard to get off!!!

Kids boat dinner