For Father’s Day, Stuart wanted to do a couple of his favorite things.  So we started with tennis in the morning and played board game in the afternoon.  We also hung out in the backyard reading and the boys played basketball with Stuart too.  For dinner he wanted one of my homemade meals that he liked.  It was a nice relaxing day.

    We took an easy day with Gloria last Saturday.  Gloria wanted to take Logan out for his favorite meal to celebrate an early birthday, so we had a nice pizza and salad lunch.  In the afternoon, Gloria and I went for a pedicure, then we rested in the house afterward.  We also played a board game together.  I wrapped up some spam masubi for our snacks and packed some for Gloria to take with her to eat later.  We also made a final run for T4U before taking Gloria to the airport together, and we said goodbye to her until next time.

   The boys were nervous but also excited to start Math Enrichment camp.  They woke up early that morning, changed and ate breakfast with the help of Auntie Gloria by the time I woke up.  They remembered what they needed from last year, so they packed up their lunch, their Tablets and asked for snack money too.  At the end of the day, they both said they had a good day.  Logan is happy that he is in the same class with Maxim and Cole, so the three of them basically spent the whole day together.  Connor also had several previous classmates in his class, so he seemed to be happy too.  All the kids have a morning teacher and an afternoon teacher; both boys told us that they have one strict teacher and one less strict one.

    In the evening, the cabana started their first Wednesday night dinner.  We headed over for this first taco night and this catered taco meal was quite yummy.  After eating, the boys played with Cole along with other kids at the foosball for a bit, then asked us to go home so they could play game.  But as soon as the three boys heard the noise of Kick the Can on the street, they headed outside to play with other neighbors.  The summer has truly started.

   I had taken Tuesday off to spend with the boys before they start the Math Enrichment summer camp on Wednesday.  Gloria took the day with us as well.  We went shoes shopping for the boys in the morning and we had lunch before returning home.  It was a hot day so we had prepared to go swimming afterward.  We all enjoyed playing around in the water and we ended up spending 1.5 hours at the cabana.  We had promised Connor to go to T4U after swimming, but Logan changed his mind then so he headed home to Stuart.  Gloria, Connor and I had a nice snack there on our own.  After walking home and a shower, I was exhausted and had to quickly take a nap.  The powernap took just a few minutes too long, so Stuart took the boys to Martial Arts so I could get changed to go to my work dinner that night. 

    The residency dinner was a nice evening with a good meal, many speeches and some entertainment.  Part of the entertainment included me along with 4 teammates losing a game of family feud and singing YMCA as a punishment.  I came home just in time to say goodnight to the boys.

   Last Sunday we decided to go strawberry picking at Watsonville.  We mistakenly picked the windy route to get there, but fortunately the boys slept through the whole way.  The weather was perfect when we arrived, and it was amazing walking through the great smelling strawberry farm.  The boys followed our advice and only looked for bigger and pretty strawberries.  They were careful cutting out the chosen ones and diligently putting them in the bucket.  It was fun walking through the rows of strawberry plants looking for the pretty ones.  We enjoyed this little outing, and I love the photos we took too.

    After fruit picking, we headed over to have lunch at Phil’s.  The line was extremely long, so Gloria and I decided to stay in line while Stuart could take the boys to the beach to play.  When we finally ordered the food a long time later, the 3 of them returned to the restaurant as Stuart was freezing out at the beach.  After finishing the yummy lunch, we headed back out to the beach.  This time it was my turn to watch the boys while Stuart preferred to stay in the car and later Gloria followed him as well.  I played with the boys at the edge of the water, and the wave was quite strong.  Although it was freezing, we had fun running around and keeping ourselves warm as well.

    Gloria came to spend some time with us; she arrived on Tuesday night.  She is staying here while working remotely, and she had taken last Friday off to spend with the boys and I.  We did some errands in the morning, then we headed over to the pool to swim in the afternoon.  Cole was playing with the boys there too.  Afterward, we took Cole along with us and walked to T4U so Gloria could enjoy the place that we all do.  

   On Saturday, we went for a walk around the lake park; we had not been there for a long time.  While we walked our usual round around the lake, we found a short little trail on the side and we hiked that too.  We had a good walk.

    In the evening, we went for dinner at Santana Row.  We were able to have an early dinner to avoid the crowd and it was a good meal.  After dinner, we walked around the area.  Connor and I had fun checking out some Tesla.  Then we all spent quite awhile browsing inside the Amazon Book Store which I think has became one of our favorite stores.  We even sat around and listened to an artist playing guitar for a few songs.  The weather was so nice, but we had to end the night to go home.