A weekend filled with cars July 20-21, 2019

We had a weekend filled with car shows. Luca and I stopped by cars and coffee at the Rosewood in Menlo Park Saturday morning. On Sunday we went to Hillsborough Concourse courtesy of mommy’s friend John who gave us tickets for the show.

Maya and daddy finished the weekend with a 11 mile bike ride. Next step is to go for a real mountain bike ride together. 

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, July 16, 2019

We headed out for some summer break fun at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk on Monday afternoon. The plan was to get on some rides but we ended up spending some time in the arcade, had some dinner (Gyros for mom& dad, corn dog for Luca and Panini for Maya). After that we headed to the beach instead and spent the evening playing in the sand and dipping our legs in the cold water. Luca ended up completely dipped :) An awesome evening hanging out together!

Weekend July 14, 2019 Horseback riding and Exploratorium in SF

Maya and daddy started the day early with horseback riding at Bear Creek Stables. Maya rode Misty again and she reminds me of an indian horse with her coloring. We couldn't get Misty to come our of her corral on our own since he had just been served fresh hay for breakfast. We finally had to ask Tara to help us get her out.

Right after horseback riding we headed up to San Francisco to go visit the Exploratorium. We had a fun day playing with the exhibits and stopped for yummy Indian food on the way back home. 

Luca and Maya spent a lot of time creating sand art on the spinning tables.

After the Exploratorium closed we took a walk along the piers and watched the boats/ships on the bay. Huge containerships slowly moving past that looked like they would tear down the Bay Bridge

Our beautiful boy waiting for his favorite food, Chicken Tikka Masala.

Hike with farmor in Pinnacles National Park July 6, 2019

We went to one of our favorite parks, Pinnacles National Park, for a hike with farmor.

Maya and farmor modeling outside the visitors center.

The park was pretty busy so we had to park our car by the visitors center and take a shuttle bus to the Bear Gulch trail head. We had an awesome hike up through the caves and to the reservoir.

We enjoyed our picknick lunch by the reservoir and saw lots of dragonflies and a snake that is really not a snake..it was a legless lizard.

After the planned hike we decided to hike back to the visitors center instead of taking the shuttle. We slightly underestimated the distance, time and heat but we eventually made it back to enjoy a big ice cream in the shade.

What an awesome time with farmor!

Pool is open!

April 2016 - pool is open and the whole family was playing in the pool for the first time this year. Maya and Luca kicked it off in January but that was too cold for mom and dad. Pool temperature was 26 Celsius and refreshing. 

Building a birdhouse

Both Maya and Luca really enjoyed building their own birdhouse. Luca did great hammering and painting on his own just like Maya

Heritage project Sweden

Maya did her heritage project presentation on "Sweden".  She did great reading her report and then presented her poster board to the class. Awesome

job Maya! All the kids loved the Swedish chocolate balls we had made.