The Good Part of Summer

There are lots of good things about this summer; I ought to let you all know it's not been all bad.

We've gone to Disneyland, Knott's Soak City, Sea World, the Beach, the beach, the beach and the beach again...swimming classes, gymnastics and piano classes.

At Disneyland, we got to ride Buzz Lightyear's Blasters, and the new and improved Space Mountain. Space Mountain starts kind of slow, but it's so smooth and the interior is gorgeous. It does get fast, yes it does! It's great!

Soak City was great. Again, it turned out to be not as hot as we thought it would be, and the girls loved it, though it was a little too crowded for my taste. We still had a great time together, our little family.

Sea World is always beautiful and the shows are wondrous. San Diego is a great place.

Any day at the beach is good. It's been windy there, but beautiful every time we've gone. Mother's beach in Long Beach, and in Huntington Harbor (of Huntington Beach), Huntington State Beach, and Sunset. Yes Beach Boys fans, Sunset Beach is a great little beach and real. Plus, parking there is free!

We're going to Lake Tahoe in 3 weeks, very gracious and generous friends have invited us to spend a long weekend there with them (Thank you most G & G friends!). It's something we are so looking forward to doing.

We will host a Girl Scout/Brownie sleep over at our house in two weeks. We'll have 11 6-8 year olds girls sleeping over and doing crafts, playing girl scout games, and eating, and probably screaming a lot. I suppose I ought to warn the neighbors.

Scott took a day off last week and we went to the Orange County Fair. It was less hot than we thought it would be, and it was more fun than I thought it would be, too!

We all watched the Shuttle launch live this morning. I'm not sure the girls were very impressed. I was, though, with the events of recent shuttles, plus today's shuttle was commanded by a woman!! Attagirl!!

It's been busy--I want all of my eight readers (Welcome # 8!) to know it's not all bad--in fact parts of this summer, major parts even have been truly terrific!