(Of course, without pictures. I’m getting really bad about not taking pictures. Something to remedy these coming months.)
Not only was this past Sunday the first day of summer, it was also Father’s Day and my friend G’s birthday.
G was kind enough to extend an invite to her family get together to a few friends, and luckily we were able to join them for a picnic on Angel Island.
If you were in the Bay Area this past weekend, you know it was just an absolutely GORGEOUS day! What better way to celebrate the start of summer, Father’s Day and a birthday than taking a quick ferry ride to Angel Island for a picnic. (A Filipino picnic, at that, so you know there was PLENTY of food!)
We spent the day there eating, relaxing, partaking in a water balloon fight and playing on the mini-beach at Alaya Cove. Before we knew it, it was time to pack up and catch the last ferry back to Tiburon.
Swim…lessons?
With our upcoming vacay to Maui, we decided to sign Mads up for swim lessons of sorts. Since everyone in SF sends their kids here for lessons, I signed her up and her first class was last Saturday. The downfall is that the school is on a perpetual schedule, meaning every child in Mads’ group had way more experience than she did. Children in her group were practically swimming on their own, whereas my child refused, REFUSED to wear the goggles, wear the fins or even partake in the class activities. Yes, money well spent…and we’re locked in until the end of July at least. I will give them props though…these other kids were not afraid of the water (which is good and bad at the same time) and didn’t mind being purposely dunked in the water (to get them used to water in their face). My child on the other hand, wanted to do her own thing, play with the toys, etc. Though, by the end of the 30 minute lesson, she seemed to enjoy jumping into the water into S’ arms.
The nice thing about the lessons is that it takes us to Crissy Field. We rarely make it out to those parts of SF and on nice days, it’s a real treat. After our lesson, we walked to the Warming hut for a late lunch and managed to meet M&K&H and visit with them for a little while and catch up. Perhaps, next time we’ll take Lucie and we can all enjoy a nice afternoon at Crissy Field.
Is it time for vacay yet?
I apologize for a blog-less May (and I’m well on my way to a blog-less June if I don’t step up!). There has just been too much going on around here…or I’ve just been too lazy to post.
So after all that vacillating on whether to tweet or not, I opened my account, and as I had expected, probably 2 weeks into it, I was finished. Officially, I’m following a few friends here and there, oh and the beloved food carts of SF. But that’s the extent of my Twitter experience.
Let’s see what else has been going on…
Mads starts her weekly summer field trips with her day care this coming Friday. This time, they’re asking parents to volunteer for at least one outing – which could be a lot of fun, but I’ll let you know.
Which brings me to a related topic – since Mads is getting on to her 3rd birthday this August (where does time go?!), I’ve reluctantly started looking into preschools. Starting slowly, I’ve only gone so far to request information & admissions packages from this school and this school. These are our only two choices really – especially since she will need to learn French. Sigh…I still can’t believe my little girl is en route to preschool.
Oh, lest I forget, we were in Carmel the weekend after Memorial Day weekend for T & JC’s wedding. We drove down Friday afternoon, settled in and made our way to the rehearsal dinner here. It was a fun night with decent Mexican food and a mariachi band. The ceremony itself was at the beautiful mission basilica. The dinner reception was held at Il Fornaio with a hilariously narrated slide show by the bride’s brother. I skipped the post reception festivities at the beach – but S tells me it was good times.
We packed up Sunday, grabbed brekkies at a diner and decided to stop at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Now, we had been to the temporary Academy of Sciences with her, and thinking it’s the Monterey Bay Aquarium it HAS to be at least 10x better than SF’s aquarium. Um, yeah, no. I was a bit disappointed as I felt there was much more to see at the Academy. At least we know we don’t need to go back. The stop at Ghiradelli’s for a sundae made up for it.
And now, here we are in (mid-late) June. We had a low key birthday celebration for S – a “special” dinner for papa, as I told Mads: S’ favorite lasagna, salad, birthday cake and home made strawberry ice cream. He was gifted with a bottle of Lagavulin 16 and Apple store gift cards.
I promise I’ll try to update more often, we’ve got fun filled weeks and weekends ahead of us!