Our weekend

We had a pretty good Memorial Day weekend...Saturday was uneventful...the usual things...Sunday was Church, naps and then a drive to Glendora to "show" the kids the new house. We really just wanted to drive around and pretend that we're already Glendora-ites. We drove all through our neighborhood and I showed Andy my favorite homes down the street from us...big Craftsman-style houses that will make me feel like I brought a piece of Pasadena with me every time by...maybe one day we'll trade our stucco for a little stone facade. We drove through Glendora village looking for places to eat or shop. We drove by the city offices, the library and I showed Andy Lauren's new preschool come July 1st. Then we spent a while at Dalton Park...the coolest, coolest park I've seen. The play area is similar to Shane's Inspiration in Griffith Park...very clean, well organized and disability-friendly. But this park also has the biggest and greatest water feature...huge spewing geysers of water, with buckets way up in the air that tip over and drench the kids...it made me very excited for summer...good thing it was overcast on Sunday, or we would have driven back to Pasadena with 2 wet kids. And Dalton Park also has lots of BBQ areas and a softball diamond...it was crawling with families enjoying the Sabbath and grilling up a storm...good times to come.

Monday we did the Kidspace thing with both Andy and me...always a treat...each child can go where she wants, and it's so much more fun and relaxing than me trying to chase Lauren one way, and Kate the other. In the afternoon we picked up a babysitter and went on our first date since I was 6 weeks pregnant...I'm too sick in the PM to attempt a night out, but I'm doing a little better, and we went in the afternoon. We hit Paseo for "Chronicles of Narnia"...a great, great flick and then enjoyed Island Burgers...can I say yum to the Hawaiian Burger and fries with ranch? Brings back many a teenage memory...and we got home and Kate was asleep, and Lauren was on her way...the house was cleaned up and the dishes done...I love hiring help for the hardest part of the day...definitely worth it...thanks for a fun date Andy. We'll have to do it again soon!

After again failing to find someone to come with us, the kids and I ventured out alone to Travel Town in Griffith Park, and again, we had a great time just with each other...so relaxing, and so fun. Admission is free (always a bonus), so we just paid to ride the train around, ate lunch, climbed all over the old, vintage trains, and had a great time. Lauren lives to ride the train at Travel Town, and Kate finally left my lap after the first trip around the park (it goes twice...what a deal).






While hollering to Lauren to not play in the mud that she was running toward, she dropped into a sink hole in the middle of the lawn...at least it wasn't mud...it provided entertainment for the last 30 minutes of our visit...literally the grass dropped into water...overall, a very fun morning...although initially frustrated that no one could go with us (I always decide what we're doing so last minute), it was another fun, alone-with-my-kids sort of day, and I liked it that way.

My first attempt at uploading from You-tube...we'll see if this works...it makes me dizzy to watch...Kate looks like a dog chasing it's tail...some of you may recognize the song that Lauren starts to sing and I then finish...it's from Nick Jr. or Noggin, don't remember which one...