Gramma's 1st find!
The best part of last night, sitting outside, out of the sweltering heat inside, eating a snack.
Another busy weekend. Eric tried to get new tires for Fei's bike, seems 18" white tires are hard to find, special order, turned out to be just a tad more to just get her a new bike. So...she wants the same bike that Lili got. Eric and I are thinking there is NO WAY we'll find the same one, but Friday night we went to the big city and were shocked that there was a 20" store display, only one left and it was on sale for the same price we got Lili's! Yay Fei. How will they tell them apart you ask? No problem, Fei put pink tassles on her new red cruiser :) Then we had Spaghetti Factory (kids favorite) and did some geo caching. The first two we tried took us to people's yards. Not sure what was up with that, but we just moved on to more public ones. As dusk came we stopped at the park to use the bathroom and there is an amazing climbing tree that the kids just love, so while I used the facilities they ran to the tree and started climbing. Miss Jia ran behind them and climbed onto the lowest branch. Her feet were all of a half inch off the ground but she was hanging on for dear life and just thrilled to be climing the tree with her sisters. Eric and I were just howling. I took a bunch of pictures, but it was dark in the tree and not many of them turned out. I need a better camera that fits in my pocket. It was a long night but we had fun.
Saturday we had a pic-nic with my parents and did a puzzle geo at a cemetary. Great place for our pic-nic. Nice and quiet. We all had a great time, but after finding all of our clues we just had no idea what it all meant so sadly we didn't find the final cache. It's bugging my Mom so we'll go back and work on it again another time.
On Sunday Mom, the girls and I picked up Subway and went for a walk and Gramma found her first geo-cache. Then we dropped both girls off at seperate Birthday parties. I went home and played with Jia in the backyard. Penny brought her girls and dinner over (Thanks Pen) and we ate quick to get the girls to dance for their year end show. This was our first sunny summer weekend this year and we were all a bit loath to leave the yard. Oh, funny thing happened when I picked Fei up from the party she was at, another Mom approached me to tell me they saw our geo name on a log/cache at a local beach! Too funny. We're weethreeNelson and she figured it had to be us. Her family has over 300 finds! We have 17 now. We've made plans to do a geo caching play date with her and her daughter.
Now to rant, because it's my blog and I can, the girls have danced for years with the same teacher. I won't go into details about the whole year end show, too boring. It was just so disorganized. Our girls group dance was at the beginning of the show. It went fairly well until the end, two girls were clearly in the wrong spot but one of them decided it was Fei who was in the wrong spot and instead of smiling and just keep dancing (which is what they're supposed to do) this kid marched over to Fei, told her to move, pointed to where she wanted her to go and of course Fei was confused (because she was in the right spot) and didn't move so this kid pushed her, and pushed her again. At which point everyone else has moved on and now Fei is in the right spot still (just dumb luck) and this kid is still telling Fei off!!! So, we're only a few mins. into the show and I'm majorly peeved and feeling sooo, soooo incredibly sad for Fei. Eric thought Fei screwed up, but I'm at the dance class every week and I knew she was in the right spot. Anyways, I've watched the video three times today and Fei was great, the other kid screwed up and then handled it extremely poorly. At the intermission, Fei was sullen. Not sure what to think. Worried she did something wrong. Not keen to go back and dance anymore. She was supposed to do the sword dance but declined and let someone else take her place. Ug. The girls didn't enjoy the evening, were just glad it was over. They normally quite like performing but last night just left them wanting nothing more to do with dance class. They have another month of lessons. Yesterday they were positive they were going to dance again next year. After last night they don't want to dance again ever. So sad. They're old enough now that what happened on stage was humiliating to them. I'm not having warm fuzzy feelings for that other kid. I really, really want to show her the video and just say 'NOT COOL'. End of rant.
The weather is still great today. Nothing planned for tonight so we get to stay home and eat dinner in the back yard. Eric has the pool just about ready to use. The water feels fairly warm, who knows maybe tonight is the night. Wait until Jia figures out there is a body of water in the back yard! We're planning to lock the ladder up.
