saturday was a beautiful day.. chieko and i took the boys to a kiddie pool for a couple of hours in the morning.. it is only for little kids, not even elementary school age kids can go.. i think the deepest part was up to my knees.. they had a great time and since it was lunchtime when we left, we went to mcdonalds for lunch 😳.. i had a blt..with pesto...don't think that's on the menu where i live.. they also had shrimp burgers...
saturday night was another barbecue with neighbors.. i am so happy to know that casey, chieko and the kids have, once again, moved into a neighborhood with such nice, nice people.. i love their old neighbors and the old neighborhood, but it's nice that ray and leo have kids around... i thought it was going to be just one or two families, but it turned into 6 or 7 familes with their children.. it was quite a crowd, but not as big as the july 4th bash!😳😳
sunday was neighborhood clean up day.. i was going to help, really, i was, but chieko said it was just a smallish clean up.. she thought only the playground (it has been mowed and weed whacked a couple of times since i've been here so i don't know what they were going to do).. anyway she said she was going to go by herself, it was going to be easy... she was gone about an hour.. they also spend time weeding the grass that was growing in the cracks between the street and sidewalks.. all along the street, not just in front of the playground.. such care in the way the whole neighborhood looks, a real community effort, wouldn't that be nice at home...
it was also recycling day, so casey and chieko did that, then went to an open house nearby to check out a house that has been under construction..
sunday afternoon chieko and i went shopping and left the darlings with casey.. i picked up a few things and we stopped at the grocery store on our way back home.. casey was hoping we'd get back before dark so he could go for a run.. we did..
monday was ocean day, a national holiday... we went to the beach.. there were only a handful of people there.. one family was huddled in a beach tent!... the water was warm, but i didn't bring a bathing suit so i just waded a bit.. casey swam with the boys, chieko took pictures.. apparently there was a sign up that said it was not a swimming beach(?), so there were no lifeguards, no bathrooms and no showers!! there was an awesome playground though.. fenced in with climbers and swings and slides and a huge grassy area for running around and throwing frisbees or whatever.. we got some kakigori (shaved ice) before going back home... it was another awesome day..
casey made gazpacho with some of the garden harvest...
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