Well, the Things had a great sleepover at cousins’ house. I took them out there Friday midday and hung out for a bit. Thing One came up to me and asked, “Mommy, when are you going to LEAVE?” I guess I was cramping her style. She couldn’t work over Uncle and Auntie with me there, I suppose. They had a big water balloon fight with the boys later which, I’m sure, was great considering the heat.
I think I’ve already mentioned my trip to the cemetery on Friday.
Friday night, we went to Restaurant Las Trancas for dinner. HUGE portions, good Mexican food. We knew it would probably be good b/c when we walked in, 80% to 90% of the customers were Mexican. That’s always a good sign. They had live mariachi music, too. The waitress clearly thought we were insane for not wanting tortillas with our meal; it was pretty funny. Granted, for true Mexicans, not having tortillas is pretty much heretical, but we’re not exactly true Mexicans. (Though it’s funny when we go to Mexican restaurants, and the waitresses take one look at hubby and speak to him in Spanish, and I have to translate for him.) Next time, we’ll just order one thing and split it.
I must say it was nice having a short time w/o the Things. I didn’t get out of bed until 9:00 on Saturday. If I hadn’t desperately needed to pee, I probably could have stayed in bed longer! Later, we strolled over to the Famer’s Market and bought some veggies and some flowers to take to the cemetery. It was blazing hot. Now, if it’s blazing hot here, it’s scorching hot everywhere else in the Bay area.
On the way to pick up the girls, we went to the cemetery. In trying to get together all we needed to take to Poppa & Nana’s, however, I forgot the flowers, so we had to stop at Albertson’s and get some. It was nice to be able to sit as long as we wanted. We even took Jenna; she was really good (thank goodness she didn’t need to poop!). I really like that so many people visit that cemetery. All the graves are so well tended. It’s nice to see flowers everywhere.
Adri seemed to like her bag. I’m bummed that the handle came out short, though. I felt guilty — the one bag that was a special request/commissioned bag, and the handle came out goofy! Oh, well. At least the rest of it looked good.
We had fun at Poppa & Nana’s, celebrating their anniversary (which is actually the day after tomorrow). 42 years married. These days, that’s practically unheard of. They really liked all the gifts we got them. I FINALLY did Nana’s fuzzy flip-flops. She seemed to like them; she put them on right away. It was miserably hot. Poor Jenna, with all that black hair. (Sunday, we found out why it was so miserable — it was 100 degrees out!) Poppa & Nana enjoyed their trip to Montana and brought back very appropriate gifts for all of us — socks for me and the Things, and a “Moose Drool” pint glass for hubby. From what I hear, Moose Drool ale is about as dark as the Diet Pepsi he actually uses it for. <g>
Hubby & Marky Mark went golfing again yesterday afternoon. They’re really enjoying being able to do this, and they even met a guy who wanted to come to church with his girlfriend.
Ran by my friend Joyce’s house last night to give her the “Double Sophie” for her birthday. She really liked it. You know how you can tell when someone’s just being polite and when they really like something? Well, she really liked it. I felt good. After all, what’s the point of making something for someone if she’s not going to like it? She deserved a good birthday this year, after losing her mom. Funny, they just got a Roomba, too.
OK, these are the pictures of the actual car we bought. They’re from the Craigslist advertisement. Hard to tell the color from the picture. When we first pulled up on Saturday, it looked green, but up close it looked blue. Could have been my sunglasses, though.
