Over the river and through the woods
We spent last week in San Diego mostly at the beach house. Yay for Thanksgiving! We look forward to this vacation all year.
Over multiple days Mike, Gideon, and Rea picked a whole bunch of natal plums and made jelly out of them. The jelly was pretty sour but had a decent flavor.
One of the days that we were there, Alison went boogie boarding. She was very brave.
We have always been lucky and had sunny weather for all of our Thanksgiving holidays. This year, we had rain for almost half the week. We were so glad Grandma got such a big place this year; we didn't feel at all cramped by the rain. The kids really enjoyed playing with Grandma Julie's Legos for days and days while it rained outside.
Grandpa Craig bought some metal shovels that were really high quality and we dug a hole almost tall enough for Mike to fit in standing up. It must have been five feet 6 in or deeper.
We also built a very large sandcastle one of the days.
We introduced kid Olympics to the family as an evening activity. We also did a gratitude tree and talent show and the candy bar game, our usual traditions, as evening activities. We had a great time with cousins!
Gideon and Elizabeth had a hard time sleeping some of the nights, and as a result of that they would visit Mike as he taught his college course.
Mike has been playing a Pokemon fire red nuzlocke against Chauncey for multiple months. We had an ultimate Pokemon showdown on Friday in which Chauncey beat Mike. The kids were all very excited about the game. We also played Smash Brothers at the get together. That was fun.
As we were traveling home we made pretty good time up until we reach the point of the mountain. There was a semi tanker full of inflammable stuff that was overturned on the freeway and so they rerouted all traffic off of the 15 and made us go all the way out to Redwood. It added about 1 hour to our travel time :(.
On Friday Mike submitted his current game to the Ion Awards. Hopefully it is well received.
Over multiple days Mike, Gideon, and Rea picked a whole bunch of natal plums and made jelly out of them. The jelly was pretty sour but had a decent flavor.One of the days that we were there, Alison went boogie boarding. She was very brave.
We have always been lucky and had sunny weather for all of our Thanksgiving holidays. This year, we had rain for almost half the week. We were so glad Grandma got such a big place this year; we didn't feel at all cramped by the rain. The kids really enjoyed playing with Grandma Julie's Legos for days and days while it rained outside.
Grandpa Craig bought some metal shovels that were really high quality and we dug a hole almost tall enough for Mike to fit in standing up. It must have been five feet 6 in or deeper.
We also built a very large sandcastle one of the days.
We introduced kid Olympics to the family as an evening activity. We also did a gratitude tree and talent show and the candy bar game, our usual traditions, as evening activities. We had a great time with cousins!
Mike has been playing a Pokemon fire red nuzlocke against Chauncey for multiple months. We had an ultimate Pokemon showdown on Friday in which Chauncey beat Mike. The kids were all very excited about the game. We also played Smash Brothers at the get together. That was fun.As we were traveling home we made pretty good time up until we reach the point of the mountain. There was a semi tanker full of inflammable stuff that was overturned on the freeway and so they rerouted all traffic off of the 15 and made us go all the way out to Redwood. It added about 1 hour to our travel time :(.
On Friday Mike submitted his current game to the Ion Awards. Hopefully it is well received.
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