Summer vacation was drawing to a close - Brennan had his last 2 weeks of day camp at the Y, and Lucie had a handful of days left with babysitters. My plans for one last adventure before school starting didn't quite work out, so we made the best of our final days of freedom locally:
Organic soft serve & rainbow sprinkles from the Twirl & Dip truck - always a hit.
Farmer's market apples - best ingested in full recline on the new rug.
Foggy morning playtime at the Bay Area Discovery Musuem, followed by lunch at Brennan's new favorite Sausalito waterfront restaurant, Fish.
(it might be the giant lemonade that's the draw)
Watching me taking pictures all the time may be rubbing off on kids, as they've started asking to use my camera. Brennan took this one:
I was surprised. If you don't mind his finger across the bottom the lens, it's one of the better pictures of me in quite some time.
We also journeyed south, when Brennan asked to meet Daddy for lunch. Daddy's feelings didn't seem to be hurt when it turned out this was a round-about way of asking to go to the Lego Store at the Hillsdale Shopping Center, since we already so close. (We've had other great moments at the Hillsdale, so maybe he just wanted to reminisce) We topped it off with a visit to a favorite playground in Burlingame, where the kids enjoy the expansive play structures and Mommy enjoys sitting outside in a t-shirt in August the Way God Intended.
It's always nice to visit the fish at the Academy of Sciences, especially at the 11 am feeding time. Lucie still likes to sit with me on the benches, but Bren prefers to be right up front so he can take part in the presentation. On this visit, he answered "one thousand and eighteen" when asked how many fish were in the tank.
We tried some new things, in honor of Brennan's 6th birthday. First, a birthday-eve visit to Pump It Up in San Bruno with his cousin Ian. Sure, we could have battled the weekend hordes at Pump It Up San Francisco, but if you don't mind a short drive with two boys inserting the word "fart" into every song lyric they hear, you can pretty much have the place to yourself.
They ran and bounced and slid and invited each other to feel how sweaty they got. I sat on a bench and tried to read Havisham despite the constant roar multiple air blowers.
For the big day itself, we went to the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos - our third trip south of SFO in a week, which has to be a new record for me.
The kids admired all the planes, explored the cockpit and first class section of a 747, and especially enjoyed the flight simulator. Mommy declined to join the family for that one, as it looked like the perfect recipe for nausea. We finished with a birthday dinner at Presidio Social Club and birthday cake at home.
And then all too soon it was Monday August 18th - first day of school:
I think they might have missed the morning walk and gathering on the playground for announcements - at least a little bit.
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