With Uncle John living all the way in New York City, and him having an amazing new job (the NED show) that has him traveling around the globe, we don't get that many chances to spend time with him. In fact, we hadn't seen John since he first met Ellie at
Christmas time. So, we were all thrilled when John notified us that he'd be spending nearly a week in California during the summer! Due to work schedules, for us, that meant a long-three day weekend with my favorite brother.
We spent Saturday at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, playing miniature golf at Neptune's Kingdom, fighting the crowds on a walk up and down the boardwalk, and dominating carnival games. It was exhausting, but it was a blast!
After that, we determined that we would spend the rest of the weekend relaxing. And so we did. On Sunday, we took family pictures at the park, and we celebrated a very belated birthday for John with a great family dinner and a delicious German chocolate cake (John's favorite). Uncle Gene and Beth, and John's friend Amanda, even came and joined us in the fun!
On Monday, with Grant and Jeremias having to work, the nuclear Mothershead family (Dad, Mom, Heather, John and me) plus grandkids spent the day at Foothills Park in Palo Alto. We ate a picnic lunch, lounged around on the picnic blankets, and went head-to-head in the Mothershead Family Olympics - croquet, Molkky, and bocce ball. To my dismay, Mom won the "all-around" gold medal after annihilating us for the gold in croquet, racking in a silver medal in Molkky, and finishing with the bronze in bocce ball. I came in a close second, going bronze-bronze-gold.
It sure was hard to see everyone leave on Monday night!
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