Grace goes to Bolinas

I joined Grace and Betsy at the end of their week's vacation in Bolinas. Here she is on top of the world.

Grace is doing a dance with the seaweed...ode to the last days of summer.

An egret takes off.

An egret takes off.

Fun in the sun: cruisin' in San Diego

We took a 4 day trip down to San Diego with our friends Melinda and Hannah, and stayed in the little beach town of Encinitas. We were thrilled when the car rental gave us a PT Cruiser. The air temp was in the upper 70s and the water temp 70...really delicious. After we arrived in SD we immediately took off for the Zoo...somewhat disappointed by viewing only one sleeping panda. Then a delicious lunch at Milton's Deli restaurant. Checked in to our favorite motel two blocks from the beach, and played in the pool. Playing, meeting kids...the day was long. We decided to go down to the beach with a new friend at 7 pm. To our surprise the water was warm and we all got in. Taking turns on friend Mia's boogie board, we all rode the waves til sunset around 8 pm. Then home for a late upside down day dinner: bacon and scrambled eggs. Kids were out like a light as soon as their heads hit the pillow.
p.s. Be sure to check the archives (on the right) on our blog, since I have put up so many photos this summer. The archives go back to September 2005.

Gettin' ready

Gettin' in for the first time.

Hannah & Grace in their panda shirts and shorts (rare for San Francisco girls) having fun in the motel room.

Hannah, Melinda in the middle supervising, and Grace boogie boading in the 70 degree ocean at Moonlight Beach.

Happy to be riding a great wave!

In the fairly crowded Moonlight Beach, Grace catches a great wave and rides it all the way in.

Here are Melinda, Grace and Hannah clowning around in the pool at our motel.

Grace took this photo of some great elephant topiary at the San Diego Zoo.

Our only view of the pandas at the San Diego Zoo. This is the main reason we come to the zoo every year...to catch a glimpse at the growing pandas. This year you could see this one, Mei Sheng, sleeping with her back to us; her parents were off the grounds, and another panda was asleep in a cave! We moved on and enjoyed some baby monkeys.