Our Times with Ginger and Danae

Last weekend, we had two wonderful relatives came to stay the night at our pad. I can tell you that we are the luckiest in the world that they are part of our family. They are fun to hang around.

On their first night at our place, we just relaxed after we celebrated Ryan's early sixth birthday party. Mostly, Danae and the boys spend their time playing with their obsessed toys: Gameboy and playing with the Hot Wheels. They got along quite well. Good grief, there were lots of giggles all evening.

After they had enough of giggling, they decided to play with our guinea pig, Fluffy. Danae was the ones who was curious to hold the Fluffy. It was fun watching her being surprised that Fluffy made lots of "tweeting" noises. It translated, "Thanks Danae!" The boys were used with our pet, so they gave her the privilege to pet our lovely animal.

Shortly after petting Fluffy, Danae and the boys went upstairs to watch the Disney while we, the adults, were watching "Golden Compass. " We also learned that there are books written about Golden Compass. Even more, we did not know that there were movie series. It was almost like watching, "Lord of Rings" or "Harry Porter." By the time our movies ended, we hit the sack for the night.

The next day, it was a big day for all of us. First, we went out to Broken Yolk Cafe. Don't forget to come out and try it whenever you are in San Diego, it was delicious. Before we took them out to the Grand Opening "Children Museum" in San Diego Downtown, we walked in and outside of Border's. The kids especially enjoyed looking at Koi fishes. Danae thought we could have Koi for lunch. Isn't she funny? While looking at the fishes, we got to know each other a lot more. That was one of the cherish moments to spend with these two wonderful people.

Another thing we have done was going inside of our favorite time: Border's. Ginger bought the boys few books: The Frog and Toad Series for Ryan and two books written by Ronald Dahl for Dylan. I did the same thing for Danae by getting her Horse book, bookmark and horse pen. It was fun to watch their smiling faces.

Finally we were heading for downtown to see the Grand Opening "Children's Museum." By the time we got there, we were disappointed because the parking lots were awful FULL! I meant FULL ! There were no way we could find it because there were so many special events at the same time: Grand Open Children's Museum, Cinco de Mayo and Red Bull Air Show. I personally thought it was not wise to schedule all three events at the same time.

Instead we ended up going to a nearby Balboa Park for a little while, the kids had fun playing on the playground for a little while. Danae was the role model by showing Dylan, my older son on how to do the swing higher without our assistance. Still, he is stubborned to even try it! I was proud of Danae. Ryan was exploring on the monkey bar. He kept asking me to stand nearby him because he thought it was dangerous.


At the end, we got another round of getting ourselves treat: to Cheesecake Factory. Oh boy, we had our stomach bigger than our eyes. But, who would argue that it was fun getting together with them? I wouldn't. I would go for to any where whom I haven't gotten together in a long while.

We do look forward to getting together with them when we go on our next trip to Oregon and Washington.