Dora arrived here on Thursday night a week ago.  She stayed with us for a couple of days before leaving to Sacramento.  I had taken most of Friday off to spend time with her.  The boys also enjoyed having Dora walking them to school in the morning and had her watched them during martial art.  More importantly Connor knows that Dora likes boba drinks and he was especially happy to take her to T4U after martial arts.  We ordered different snacks and drinks to share with her, and Connor also made plan to come back with her on Tuesday after the next martial arts lesson.

    Over the weekend, Dora left us to drive up to Sacramento to meet with Amy to run a full marathon.  On the day of the race, we were tracking her and was happy to see her progress.  But the tracking was behind and as we heard that she passed the 20th mile, I received this picture of them from her at the finish line in front of the capital building.  Dora not only hung in there the entire race with the pain in her legs, she finished very well and qualified for Boston too.  We were all very proud of her.

     Dora drove back to us on Monday and we spent the next few days with her. I had taken Wednesday off from work as well.  After volunteering at the Science Lab on Wed morning, we drove up to SF.  We ran a little errand for me, then we headed to North Beach for lunch.  It had been years since we had been to this restaurant; we both were satisfied and stuffed afterward.  We then went to Japantown to walk around.  We also purchased grocery to make hotpot for dinner to fill Connor’s request.  The boys had enjoyed auntie’s visit and had to say goodbye to her on Wednesday night as I took Dora to the airport early Thursday morning.