What a beautiful day we had 6-19-08

The weather was just perfect and all. Suzia dropped off her Stevie and got to extend her wishes for Karen on her Birthday today. Karen first went to renew her driving license, while I played with Maddie, Stevie, Lily and Suzia's Steve at the local park nearby. Then we went to Elk Grove to the Pirates Cove for a few hours. We were surprised by Steve getting out of work early and joining us for the day's activities. What a wonderful place for kids under 11-12. We had a great time at the Cove for a few hours. They went on slides, burlap slides, paddle boats, choo-choo trains, carousels rides, climbing walls, stage plays, bumper cars, spiderwebs to climb on, even had lunch there by the big pirate ship. Then it was time to go to a waterpark so we went to Glen Ellen. Steve & Karen were there last week for a Birthday party and said it would be fun and it was FUN.

In Glen Ellen there is a water park that was just fantastic for the kids as was the playground surrounding the waterpark/splashpad. A big sandbox as well as the usual playground stuff. There was a zipline for the kids and adults alike. The adults (Like Babcia, Karen and Steve) would bang there butts on the ground on the way back. The spider/monkey jungle climb was way up there, about 15-18 feet up in the air. Maddie and Stevie (Kolega) had no problem climbing it up with no shoes on. We splashed others and got splashed ourselves. Lily got to cool off herself by pouring water on herself. Steve got Karen in the water also. We played there till it was time for dinner.

We were joined for dinner by Dziadzia at Ruby Tuesdays.

The day ended with us all singing Happy Birthday and Sto Lat for Karen outside in the parking lot in the grasslot next to Ruby Tuesdays.

Our poor little Lily only had a nap consisting of 15 mintues for the whole day. ( She usually has a total of 2-3 hours), but she is a real trooper and continued to have fun all daylong.

The order of pictures are scrambled, so you can figure out where each one was taken.

OOOPS all this and we had no cake for Karen to blow out candles today. I guess maybe she would be tooooo winded to blow them out to celebrate her 30th. Oh wait!!! that was me I was thinking about blowing out so many candles that it would make ME winded.