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San Francisco, Pt 1
After leaving the grandparents’ house, we headed straight up to San Francisco for a last hurrah before school started. More to come…
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Kids and Dog
When the goats had had their fill (not really, they would’ve kept eating til they burst), we switched our attention to Grandpa’s dog, Lily.
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Kids and Goats
And in a blink, it was time to go round up the kids again. It was lovely to have some time being just the two of us, but we were also ready for some hugs and kisses from our little crew. More from Grandpa and Grandma’s house to come…
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Staycation, Day 4
Our last full staycation day found us having a spa day for two. Something I never in a million years would have imagined Phil agreeing to much less enjoying. But, we each got a massage on our vacation to Puerto Vallarta a few years back and Phil surprised himself with how much he enjoyed it and said he could see how people could get hooked on them. I took that as a sign that a spa day for two was now totally in the realm of possible for us. In a word, it was aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh. Best way we could have spent our last full day together. That and one last…
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Staycation, Day 3
It wasn’t exactly the plan to gain a hundred pounds during our staycation, so we spent the morning of day 3 hiking along the PV cliffs. Though we probably would have needed to hike for several days to burn off all the calories ingested, it was a beautiful way to spend the morning. Thoroughly enjoyable hiking by ourselves. We kept commenting on how we thought the kids would do if they were with us. The older two probably would have hung in there, though we suspected a headache for Mikey. Phil would be lugging Lauren on his shoulders and I’d have Jonah hanging off me. Not nearly as enjoyable and…
