Grammy! (Still July)

Just to let you know: July was really busy, August slowed down, September we went to Sequoia and Yosemite, October we spent a week in San Diego, November was pretty much a dud in terms of pictures and events-worth-blogging, which brings us to December/January with the obvious Christmas and related travels.  So that’s where we are and what we have to get through to catch up.  Whew!

Mapping out the next round of adventures.

  
Let’s see Grammy got here on a Saturday and I immediately left her alone with the kids so that I could attend a baby shower.  So our first exploration was Sunday after church; we trotted down to the beach for a local festival.

It was a bit of a gray day but there was still plenty of color to be found.

      
    
Hey, not bad!

               
Watching the surfers from the pier and generally checking out the view.

The surfing competition was going on most of the day; we happened to catch one of the junior divisions.  If you hadn’t gathered, surfing is big around here so these kids were GOOD!

        
As the last surfers ride in, the lifeguards head into the water carrying several large trash bags full of . . .

DUCKIES!  Apparently the final event of the festival is a big charity fundraiser rubber duckie “race”.  
   

Oh don’t worry, Grammy found plenty of time for stories too.