So...this'll be a long one (w/pictures!)
Looks like everyone's doing some traveling for the summer, and to begin, over the weekend, a cousin drove down from Seattle with her three sons (7th grade, 5th grade, 2nd grade respectively). The kiddos liked the walking machine and alternated between the PS2 and their own DS, stayed long enough for corn (12 for $2 at Ralphs!) and some ice cream.
Oh, but if we could only bottle their energy!
The cuz is running her own pizza shop with her husband, and the way she described the dough making process...mmmm. Also, the shop previously was an Indian pizza shop and their pizza combos? Spinach and ginger! Now that I think of it, this could all be a good excuse to visit for the upcoming ALA midwinter conference...though I'm holding out for the annual one in '08 in Anaheim. Ahh..any musicians up in Seattle anytime soon? :)
BTW, her husband's taking the two older kids for his vacation in a few weeks: a 50 mile canoe ride with his two older sons and the cub scouts.
50 miles! [sputter]!
The next afternoon, it was out to RH for another veggie meal reunion and, knowing the food there, I cheated and had two leftover tacos as a starter! HA! Then, because the other cousin had to run through a sales pitch for his first job (huzzah!) we headed to the house on the hill to...ah, really eat some more and let mother nature kick our ass as we climbed up the hill in his backyard. I have pics of the hill somewhere on LJ, which show how the steps up the mountain are constructed entirely of used tires. But really, were we moving like old ladies up and down the hill and it wasn't a big surprise that our legs were greviously sore next day. Egads!
More chitchat thereafter, some nosing about for more details of C's trip to Hong Kong by the uncle, and further nosing about on another cousin's now solo business venture involving Gucci wallets. Then, on the drive home passed the park which looked busier than usual and, after heading back and feeding the cats way past their dinnertime, we walked over to the park to check out the scene: a pre-4th of July fireworks celebration! Looks like our little city is getting fancy:
More traveling set for tomorrow, when Momma Lin heads back to Taiwan, which means a) the rest of us will be dropping some pounds and b) her babies will need tending to. Wait, let me clarify: her babies are the poppings up of greenery and such in the garden:
Need to start developing that green thumb, and C suggested a project of spiffy-ing up the scene by the kitchen window, so that'll be exercise of another sort. It's just we'll have to wait until either the early morning or late afternoons for the 100 degree temps to cool off...
Wish me luck!
