Gilroy Gardens with Friends

Our good friends, Sam and Eric's family came up for the Labor day weekend so a bunch of us went to Gilroy Gardens when they were having a special of $14 per admission. Apparently, half of the city of San Jose and their families decided to go on the same day so the lines for the rides was unusually long. To top that off, the weather was definitely on the warm side so we sweated lots while waiting in line. Despite all of that, we all had fun hanging out together and catching up with each other especially waiting in the hour long hot air balloon ride.

Adrian loves anything water, so he especially enjoyed running through the waterfall. He ended up running through it at least 4 times and at one point he even slipped over, but then picked himself up and continued running! Perhaps it was because he was with a big party and within the party, there were other kids that encouraged him to be brave and sit beside me one of the train rides that looped around the park! I had a great time hanging out with some really good (old) friends and receiving a peck on the cheek by my little munchkin! :)

A day trip to Monterey

Ed and I took an extra day off to extend our labor day holiday from 3 to 4 days. We happily spent the day in Monterey where it was initially cloudy only to be greeted with the sunny warm sunshine by the time we had stationed ourselves at the little beach minutes away from Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Adrian got to play in the sand and made many journey back and forth filling his bucket with water and getting himself super wet in the process. He also got to play with hermit crabs, snails and some little fish in the tide pool area before we made our way over to the aquarium where Adrian accomplished his mission of "finding Nemo!"